Uses: anemia, circulation, bleeding.                                                 

Origin: Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, India, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, South Africa, Suriname, United Sates, Venezuela.

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Root: Emollient.

Leaf: Mucilaginous. In a decoction for dysentery.

Flower: In an emollient tisane.

Seed: Diuretic; yields an oil for soothing burns.
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Range. Tropics. Cultivated in Myanmar.

Uses
Seed, Oil: Emollient, nutritive, expectorant, laxative, diuretic, antirheumatic, and emmenagogue. The black seeds are preferred.

Toxicity:
abortive (in large doses),
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Origin

Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra.

Action:

Seeds—an important source of protein; also rich in thiamine and niacine. Nourishing, lactagogue, diuretic, laxative, emollient.

Powdered seeds—given internally in amenorrhoea and dysmenorrhoea. (Black seeds are preferred in Indianmedicine.) Paste is applied to burns, scalds, piles.

Leaves—used in affections of kidney and bladder. Bland mucilage is used in infantile diarrhoea, dysentery, catarrh and bladder troubles, acute cystitis and strangury.

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

3) DeFilipps, Robert A.; Krupnick, Gary A. / PhytoKeys, v. 102. - - p. 1 - 314,  2018.

4) Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p 600.