Flower, leaf: leaf boiled, tea drunk for cough or headache

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Leaf: Applied onto various swellings. Used to treat abcesses and to induce vomiting in NW Guyana.

Flower: Boiled and the extract used to treat delayed menses. In French Guiana, the double-flowered cultivar is preferentially used in a pectoral syrup for broncho-pulmonary disorders. Flowers in an infusion for an antitussive and grippe when mixed with leaves of Lantana camara, Justicia pectoralis, Macfadyena unguis-cati, Ocimum micranthum and tallow. Used for whooping cough in NW Guyana.
Flower Toxicity: abortive

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Origin: Native to South Eastern Asia and cultivated throughout the world as decorative plants.

Pharmacological Activities: Antianxiety, Anticancer, Anticonvulsant, Antifertility, Antioxidant, Hepatoprotective, Hypoglycaemic, Hypolipidaemic and Wound healing.
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Origin:
Native of China; grown in gardens throughout India.

Action:
Flower—used in impotency, bronchial catarrh.
Flower and bark—emmenagogue.
Leaf— stimulates expulsion of placenta after childbirth; laxative, anodyne.
Flower and root—used in menorrhagia.
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Origin
Mizoram, Northeast India
Parts used
Leaf
Ailments
Hair lotion

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2) A guide to medicinal plants / Hwee Ling, Koh; Tung Kian, Chua; Chay Hoon, Tan. Singapore:  World vScientific Public Co. Pte. Ltd., 2009. p 289 p.

3) Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p. 836.

4) Birla Kshetrimayum/ Medicinal Plants and Its Therapeutic Uses/ USA: OMICS Group eBooks, 2017. p. 28