Leaf: aire, colds, cough, fever, headache, "get the juice out of the leaves and eat for the lungs"; "for cough, and to clean the Iungs"

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Range. Old World tropics; exact origin unknown. Widely distributed in Myanmar.

Use

Leaf: Used to treat alopecia. Apply leaf juice to areas affected by impetigo, erysipelas and boils to treat sores. Roasted and stuck on the wound to stop the flow of blood and to promote healing. Roasted and stuck onto contusions to alleviate and heal inflammation. Crushing one or two leaves together with a bit of pepper and taking the mixture orally will treat retention of urine and other symptoms caused by hemor­rhoids and venereal diseases. Crushing the leaf and taking the resulting juice will help treat cholera. Applying the juice of the leaf will heal dislocations, knotted muscles, and burns. Crushed and placed over eyes to treat eye ailments. Juice from the leaf together with rock sugar to treat blood in the urine and dysentery. Juice from the leaf can be ground together with salt and pressed into a scorpion bite to neutralize the poison.
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Origin:
Throughout the warm and moist parts of India, especially abundant in West Bengal.

Action:
Leaf—disinfectant, antibacterial (used for boils, insect bites, swellings, burns, wounds).
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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

The leaves of this succulent are much used for colds. A decoction may be used, or the juice, alone or with goat's milk or salt, is taken. It may also be mixed with yam leaves to boil tea. The bruised leaves are said to make a soothing dressing for insect bites, bruises, boils and ulcers. In Africa it is used for more varied purposes including coughs (the root), headaches, ophthalmia, earache, abscesses and swellings, and as a diuretic.

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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

The use of this plant in Jamaica as an application for headaches and pains, including sprains, is confirmed. Similar uses to those already recorded are made of the species in Cuba and in Maya medicine. The Maya also considered it of value in the treatment of dysentery and failure of menstruation.

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Origin
Mizoram, Northeast India
Parts used
Leaf
Ailments
Boils, insect bite, burn

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