Leaf: leaves mashed with water, drops in eye for eye sickness.

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Origin

Distributed throughout India. Common in waste places and road side.

Action:

Plant—febrifuge, diaphoretic (infusion of herb, combined with quinine, is used against malaria). Used as a specific herb for leucorrhoea, dysuria, spasm of bladder, strangury and for haematological disorders, as a blood purifier and styptic. Also used in asthma.

Seeds—anthelmintic, antiflatulent, antispasmodic; used in dysuria, leucoderma, psoriasis and other skin diseases.

Roots—anthelmintic; decoction used for colic.

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

2) Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p 698.