Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

In Africa B. verticilIata is used to make a lotion for children with fever.

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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.

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Origin:
Nigeria
Part used
leaves,seeds
Medicinal uses
Gonorrhoea,anti-leprosy,antibilharziasis

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

3) Abd El-Ghani1, Monier M./ Traditional medicinal plants of Nigeria: an overview: Agric. Biol. J. N. Am., 2016, 7(5): 220-247. - p. 239.