Colocasia esculenta (L.) SchottAraceaeShaeppam-kizhanguArviGhuiyaaEddoTanyaDasheenCoco (Yam)gwabakokofunEddoePaanTalesKeladiTaroEdible YamPindaalukaAalukiChaembu Whole plant: Grated and mixed with coconut oil and soft grease for an ointment to relieve skin ulcers and acute dermatitis. Grated in poultice with soap and soft grease to treat pre-softened abscesses. Makes nutritive soup ingested to increase milk supply of nursing women.

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Origin:
Cultivated throughoutIndia.

Action:
Juice from petiole— styptic, rubefacient.
Juice of corn—used in alopaecia.
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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

We are informed that the milk from grated white cocoes is sometimes mixed with coconut milk and taken for biliousness. Lunan speaks of the use of the "roots" (tubers) in the treatment of asthma and consumption. Fawcett records that the juice of the tubers is laxative. In the main, however. Writers record the value of the tubers and leaf juice as a dressing for ulcers. swellings. burns and as an excellent styptic.

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Origin:

Nigeria

Part used

tuber,leaves

Medicinal uses

anaemia,wounds,poison antidote

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Origin
Mizoram, Northeast India
Parts used
Petiole
Ailments
Insect-bites

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