Origin: Native to Indian subcontinent and cultivated elsewhere.[

Pharmacological Activities: Antiapoptotic, Antibacterial, Antifungal, Anticancer] Antidiabetic/ Hypoglycaemic Antifertility, Anti-inflammatory ... more on the book

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Uses
Cool and bitter in taste, controls phlegm and gall bladder function, stimu­lates appetite, reduces fever, and is particularly good as a remedy for children.

Whole plant:
Made into medicines that reduce fever, aid digestion, and give strength. The liquid from boiling the plant is used to treat headaches, indigestion, loose bowels, dysentery, shooting pains from gas in the intestines, and fevers; can also be mixed with powdered zee-hpyu, hpan-khar (Terminalia chebula) and thit hseint (Terminalia bellerica) to remedy edema, abdominal swelling, leprosy, headaches, stiff neck, and diz­ziness.

Leaf:
Used in medicines that lower fever, neutralize poisons, and treat the gall bladder, as well as in making of shar-put-hsay (commonly used traditional medicine in form of grayish brown powder rolled into nuggets).

Leaf and Root:
Used as febrifuge, stomachic, tonic and anthelmintic.
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Origin:
Throughout India, from Himachal Pradesh to Assam and Mizoram, and all over southern India.

Action:
Hepatoprotective, cholinergic, antispasmodic, stomachic, anthelmintic, alterative, blood purifier, febrifuge. It acts well on the liver, promoting secretion of bile. Used in jaundice and torpid liver, flatulence and diarrhoea of children, colic, strangulation of intestines and splenomegaly; also for cold and upper respiratory tract infections.

Toxicity:
The herb is contraindicated in bleeding disorders, hypotension, as well as male and female sterility (exhibited infertility in laboratory animals).
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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

Used in Jamaica to prepare a general beverage and in treatment of fever and colds.

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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

The drug Andrographis or Kalmegh was in the Indian Pharmacopoeia 1946 and was used to improve the appetite in dyspepsia cases. It has been esteemed as a bitter stomachic for more than a hundred years and is still used in Jamaica as such in the form of tea and gin or sherry bitters. The latter is also used as a malaria specific. The tea made from the plant is considered by some Jamaicans to be a remedy for diabetes. The plant has also been considered alexipharmac, anthelmintic and of use in cases of cholera and dysentery.

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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) Asprey, G.F.; Phyllis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts I & II. – p. 3.

5) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts III & IV. – p. 48.