sadapaha :
General Use:
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- The flowers are used in food colouring. The leaves may be eaten cooked as well, but only as an emergency food.
- An edible crimson dye is obtained from the flowers to color cakes and jellies.
- In herbal medicine, parts of the plant may be used as a diuretic, purgative, and for vulnerary (wound healing) purposes. The root is believed to be an aphrodisiac as well as having diuretic and purgative properties. It is also used in the treatment of dropsy.
- The leaves are used to reduce inflammation. A decoction of them (by mashing and boiling) is used to treat abscesses. Leaf juice may be used to treat wounds. The bulbous roots of the flower have a laxative effect.
- Powdered, the seed of some varieties is used as a cosmetic and a dye. The seeds are considered poisonous.
- The plant has a potential for the bioremediation of soils polluted with moderate concentrations of heavy metals such as cadmium.
- In Brazil , the Indian Kayapo sniff the powder of dried flowers to cure headaches and use the root decoction to wash wounds and treat skin conditions such as leprosy. In Peru, juice extracted from flowers is used for herpes lesions and earache. The juice extracted from the root is used to treat earache, diarrhea, dysentery, syphilis and liver infections. In Mexico, decoctions of the whole plant are used for dysentery, infected wounds, and bee and scorpion stings.
Therapeutic Uses:
—Dried root is said to possess some nutrient qualities. Powdered and fried in
ghee with spices it is given in milk as a poushtika. Rubbed with water it is applied as lep in
contusions. Leaves bruised and heated are applied as poultice to boils and abscesses to hasten
suppuration.
Roots are used as purgative in the Philippine Islands
Systemic Use:
—Root is aphrodisiac; good for syphilitic sores. Leaves are
maturant; lessen inflammations (Yunani).
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