addhahpushpi :

Use in other system of medicine:

Edibility

- Leaves and flowers are edible.

Folkloric

- In the Philippines, used in the same manner as Tichodesma zeylanicum.

- Leaves and roots are used as remedy for snake bites; also used as diuretic.

- Cold infusion of leaves considered depurative.

- Crushed roots, in decoction or infusion, used for dysentery in children.

- In Indian traditional medicine, decoction of roots used for diarrhea, dysentery and fever.

- In Deccan, plants is used as emollient poultice.

- In Chutia Nagpur, roots are crushed and made into a paste, and applied externally to swollen joints, inflammations and superficial skin injuries.

- Used for arthralgias, inflammations, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery, dysmenorrhea.

- In Tamil Nadu, southern India, root decoction taken internally to treat bloody dysentery.

- In Ayurveda, plant used in vitiated condition of Kapha/phlegm and Vata/wind. Root paste applied to wounds.

- In Easters Ghats, used to treat bone fractures: Poultice of whole plant paste mixed with Albizia amara leaf powder, tumeric powder, goats milk and wheat is applied on skin around the fractured area and bandaged

Dr Mohamed Rifas

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