Parte empleada: hoja.
Usos: hinchazón de pies y golpes.
Preparación: suavizar una hoja con las manos, por medio de movimientos suaves y colocarla en los pies o en la parte afectada.

Herb 90 cm, dooryard garden, San Andrés.

Uses: mash leaves, place on skin infections or aches. Comerford 116, 15 Nov 1994.

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Uses: rheumatism, circulation,hypertension.                                                 

Origin: Belize, Caribbean, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, USA, Venezuela.     

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Whole plant: Infusion for a febrifuge.

Leaf: Leaves and leaf-juice mixed with coconut oil and Carapa oil are rubbed on the head to treat violent and persistent headache. Leaf-juice (or flower) put into eyes to treat conjunctivitis. Warmed leaves applied to hernia. Leaf-juice drunk with salt for colds, coughs, grippe, loose bowels and teething babies; juice for sores, ulcers and swellings. Poultice of roasted leaves or juice from macerated leaves is used for treating ringworm, by the Guyana Patamona. Macerated leaves are used as an antibacterial, as an antifungal, as an antiseptic, as an emollient, for treating diaper rash and for treating sores, by the Guyana Patamona. Macerated leaves are warmed and used as an enti-oedemic, by the Guyana Patamona. Leaves are macerated, soaked in water, and used as shampoo, by the Guyana Patamona. Leaves used for sore eyes, coughs and colds, sores, and wounds and cuts in NW Guyana.

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Origin:
Throughout the warm and moist parts of India, especially abundant in West  Bengal.

Action:
Leaf—anti-inflammatory, antifungal, antibacterial. Applied to wounds, burns, boils, swellings.
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Origin:
African plant - Mexico
Medicinal  properties:
- Anti inflammatory
- Burns (topically)

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Origin:
Northern sector of Kibale National Park, Uganda
Disease treated:
Cough: FL

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4) Plantas medicinales de La Matamba y El Piñonal, municipio de Jamapa, Veracruz/ Escamilla Pérez, Blanca Edith; Moreno Casaola, Patricia. INECOL: Mexico, 2015, 99p.

5) Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p. 356.

6) Armando González Stuart/ Plants Used in Mexican Plants Used in Mexican Traditional Medicine Traditional Medicine: Their Application and Effects In Traditional Healing Practices. - p. 168.

7) Jane Namukobe; et al. / Traditional plants used for medicinal purposes by local communities around the Northern sector of Kibale National Park, Uganda. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2011(136) p. 240.