indivara indivara :

Use in other system of medicine:

Edibility / Nutritional

- Tubers, leaves and aerial parts are eaten, raw or cooked.

- In Bengal, tender stalk and leaves are eaten as vegetable.

- In Java, entire plant, except for the roots, eaten as vegetable.

- Nutritional evaluation suggests the plant can be an alternative nutrient rich leafy vegetable.

Folkloric

- Leaves are poulticed after boils have burst.

- Juice of roots for stomach and liver problems, asthma and toothache.

- In Java leaf juice use for coughs; roots for stomach and liver complaints, asthma and toothache. Leaves with ginger and honey taken for cough and cold.

- Bark eaten with sugar for asthma.

- In India, used for burns and scalds; general debility, asthma, fever, hemorrhage, cough, scurvy, dipsia, strangury, gastropathy, hepatopathy, odontalgia, scurvy and hemorrhages.

- Paste of tuber used externally as antidote to snakebite poisoning in Tamil Nadu.

- In Tripuri, India, decoction of fresh roots used for nausea. Whole plant is cooked by tribal people and used in digestive disorders. Young shoots used for gastritis and asthma.

- Paniya tribe of India use the leaves for diabetes.

- In the Siddha system, roots is used for cough, disease of pittam, venereal afflictions, thirst, fainting, and fever.

- Juice of leaves applied to boils.

- In Ayurvedic and Unani medicine, root is chewed for toothaches and sugared bark for asthma.