Uses: fever.                                                 

Origin: Brazil, Caribbean, China, French Guiana, Honduras, India, Java, Mexico, Sri Lanca, Suriname, United States,      

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Leaf: A tea is made, with alcoholic spirits or sweet spirits of nitre, to treat colds; infusion to treat diarrhoea spasms, as a stimulant and antispasmodic; infusion is sudorific and an excellent digestive. Leaves used to flavor other teas.

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Range. Native to southern India and Sri Lanka. Introduced elsewhere as a crop plant; commonly cultivated. Cultivated throughout Myanmar, up to 610 m altitude.

Uses. Bitter and sweet in taste, the plant can cause loose bowels, and feelings of hunger. It can be used to control flatulence and to treat leprosy, epilepsy, and diseases associated with the intestines.

Whole plant: Used as an antispasmodic, carminative, and diaphoretic.

Oil: Used topically to relieve joint inflammation; on the scalp to stop hair loss; and on the skin to treat scabies, rashes and other conditions.

Leaf: Liquid from soaking the leaves in hot water can be taken for shooting stomach pains. Juice from crushed leaves is applied to treat arm or leg paralysis. Liquid from leaves boiled in water to one-fourth the starting volume is ingested for fevers, coughs, and colds.

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Origin:
Mainly in South India; cultivated to a small extent in warmer parts of India.

Action:
Leaf—stomachic, carminative, spasmolytic, mild astringent.
Essential oil—stimulant, carminative, diaphoretic, rubefacient, antiseptic, antibacterial, antifungal, larvicidal.
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Origin:
Northern sector of Kibale National Park, Uganda
Disease treated:
Infertility in men: FL

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