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| | Herbs and Spices used in Thai Cuisine, Bael fruit or Ma-tuum, Simply-thai.com-Thai-Market-Online |
 | | ael fruit tree is slow-growing, of medium size, up to 40 or 50 ft (12-15 m) tall with short trunk, thick, soft, flaking bark, and spreading, sometimes spiny branches, the lower ones drooping. |
 | | The fruit, round, pyriform, oval, or oblong, may have a thin, hard, woody shell or a more or less soft rind, grey-green until the fruit is fully ripe, when it turns yellowish. |
 | | A decoction of the unripe fruit, with fennel and ginger, is prescribed in cases of haemorrhoids. |
| www.simply-thai.com /Thai-Market_Thai_Herbs_and_Spices_Bael_Fruit.htm (344 words) |
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