Leaf: With coconut oil on bruises; leaf for a pain-killer (anodyne).

Flower: Juice used to treat earache.

Seed: In Surinam, burned seeds are smoked in a leaf to remedy asthma.

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Range. Native to the West Indies (Howard 1989), or to tropical Asia (Liogier 1994). Cultivated in Myanmar.

Uses
Leaf: Used as a sedative and, when smoked, considered a valuable remedy for asthma.

Toxicity:
Seed: Mixed in curry and sweets, then employed as a narcotic (too high a dose may kill, the person may take some days to recover their faculties even at lower doses).
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Origin:
Throughout India, particularly in waste place.

Action:
Various plant parts are used in headache, hemiplegia, epilepsy, delirium, convulsions, cramps, rigid thigh muscles, rheumatism.
Leaf— antitumour, antirheumatic.
Leaf and corolla—anti-inflammatory.
Flower—antiasthmatic.
Seed, leaf and root—anticatarrhal, febrifuge, antidiarrhoeal, antidermatosis; also used in cerebral complications.
Seeds—used in asthma. Limited use in kinetosis (excessive salivation, nausea and vomiting).
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Origin
“Cariri Paraibano”, Brazil
Medicinal indication
As anti-asthmatic and sedative: Flowers

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Origin
Mizoram, Northeast India
Parts used
Leaf, root, seed
Ailments
Ringworm, boils, wart

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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) M.F. Agra; et al/ Medicinal and poisonous diversity of the flora of “Cariri Paraibano”, Brazil/ Journal of Ethnopharmacology 111 (2007), p. 392.

5) Birla Kshetrimayum/ Medicinal Plants and Its Therapeutic Uses/ USA: OMICS Group eBooks, 2017. p. 27