Whole plant: Plant is boiled, and the water drunk as an antipyretic, by the Guyana Patamona. Plant is boiled and the water used as an antiseptic or for washing the skin as treatment for cold sweat, by the Guyana Patamona. Plant is mixed with leaves of Gossypium and Lantana, boiled and used for herbal bath, by the Guyana Patamona. Plant is dried, boiled, and the water drunk as a treatment for back pain, by the Guyana Patamona. Plant is boiled, and the water drunk as a treatment for influenza, by the Guyana Patamona.

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Range. China, Taiwan, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, My­anmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Sikkim, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. In Myan­mar, found in Magway and Yangon.

Uses. Leaf, Flowering Spike, Seed: Used as an emetic and antiasthmatic.
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Origin:
Throughout the tropical and subtropical regions, up to an altitude of 2100m, in the southern Andaman Islands.

Action:
Astringent, pectoral (ashes of the plant used in asthma and cough), diuretic, hepatoprotective, emmenagogue.
The flowers,---- ground and mixed with sugar, are given for menorrhagia.
Roots—astringent, haemostatic.
Seeds—emetic; used for biliousness.
Essential oil— antifungal.

Toxicity:
Benzene extract of the plant exhibited abortifacient activity.
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Origin

Africa

Folk medicinal uses

leaves are taken and fire cured, then ground. The powder is then applied on cuts made with a razor

blade in cases of ankle sprains. It is used together with commercial salt. It is also a medicine for headache.

The ash of the burned leaves is applied on boils.

Roots chewed and applied on cuts will stop bleeding. A decoction made from the roots is used as medicine for constipation in children and to cure stitch. The pounded root is steeped in hot water, and the extract drunk cold as a cure for venereal diseases.

The steam from boiling the plant is inhaled and used as a hot bath for acute chills. The juice of the plant is reported to dissipate opacity of the cornea and to relieve toothache, dysentery and other bowel complaints.

The ash of the plant, from which a salt is prepared is used in the treatment of scabies, when mixed with honey the ash is used as a cough remedy (Watt and Breyer - Brandwijk, 1962). Chhabra (Pers. Comm.) reports that A. aspera is used for treating leprosy and kidney troubles.

The decoction of A. aspera root is gargled as a remedy for toothache.

The roots are chewed and applied on a recent snake bite. A decoction of the root is drunk as a remedy for malaria, heartburn, generalised pains and to cause vomiting as an antidote for poison. A decoction of root and leaves is drunk as anthelmintic. It is also used for preventing miscarriage in pregnant women.

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Origin
Mizoram, Northeast India
Parts used
Leaf
Ailments
Boils, skin eruption, acne, insect bite, ringworm, scabies

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

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

4) Some medicinal forest plants of Africa and Latin America 67/ FAO. – FAO: Rome, 1986. – p. 30.

5) Birla Kshetrimayum/ Medicinal Plants and Its Therapeutic Uses/ USA: OMICS Group eBooks, 2017. p. 24