Bleeding heart

Leaf: kidney, heart, pressure, obeah

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Tuber: Powdered tuber employed to treat facial skin blemishes by the French Guiana Palikur.

Root: Used for botfly larvae in NW Guyana.

Veterinary: Crushed leaves are used in veterinary medicine to destroy vermin on sores of cattle.
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Origin:

Nigeria

Part used

leves,rhizome

Medicinal uses

topical application for boils,convulsion,ulcer

1) Barret, Bruce Economic Botany vol. 48, nro. 1 .-- p. 8-20 1994.

2) Robertt, A., et al.. Medicinal Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana)/Smithsonian NMNH. cited online: 17-08-2017.

3) Abd El-Ghani1, Monier M./ Traditional medicinal plants of Nigeria: an overview: Agric. Biol. J. N. Am., 2016, 7(5): 220-247. - p. 224.