Origen y distribución: nativa de América Central (México), América del Sur y Asia Central, a menudo se cultiva en jardines por toda Italia, en sus distintas variedades. La planta requiere un clima templado cálido (temperatura óptima 18-24 º C). El cultivo requiere un suelo de textura media, fresco y suave, rico en materia orgánica y bien drenado.

Propiedad: antihelmíntica, diurética, antiséptica, vulneraria, anti diarreica, antianémicas.

Uses: worm, cholesterol.                                                 

Origin: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, China, India, Nicaragua, Panama, Uruguay, Venezuela. 

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Origin:
Cultivated throughout India.

Action:
Fruit pulp—sedative, emollient and refrigerant; used as poultice, applied to burns, inflammations, boils, and burns.
Seeds—diuretic, anthelmintic (for tapeworm). Because of their zinc content and antimitotic effect, seeds are used to arrest enlargement of prostate gland. Also used in cystitis and minor kidney dyfunction.

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Origin:

Nigeria

Part used

seeds,fruits

Medicinal uses

tape worms,taenicides

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

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Origin
Mizoram, Northeast India
Parts used
Pulp
Ailments
Boils, burn

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2) El uso popular de las plantas medicinales en Uruguay/Grosso, Lilia. - Icei, 2010. -- p. 88 

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

4) Abd El-Ghani1, Monier M./ Traditional medicinal plants of Nigeria: an overview: Agric. Biol. J. N. Am., 2016, 7(5): 220-247. - p. 228.

5) 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. 239.

6) Birla Kshetrimayum/ Medicinal Plants and Its Therapeutic Uses/ USA: OMICS Group eBooks, 2017. p. 26