Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

Said to be used to make tea for constipation.

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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

Button weed is used to make tea for colds and with Cuscula and Zebrina it provides a remedy for amenorrhoea: "however long the menses have been stopped this will start them again". Boiled with lresine and Desmodium it is used as a diuretic.

1) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts I & II. – p. 24.

2) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts III & IV. – p. 67.