Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

Beckwith reported the use of this species as a cold remedy.

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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

For fever and colds the patient is steamed over a bath prepared by boiling this plant. The species does not appear to be in common use. Dancer refers to it, under the common name of Halbert Weed, as a good bitter.

1) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts I & II. – p. 9.

2) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts III & IV. – p. 53.