apoedika :

General Use:

Used as edible vegetable.

Therapeutic Uses:

Medicinally Upodika/Malabar Spinach/Pasalai/Kodippasalai is used for treating variety of diseases.

The leaves are used externally in treatment sores, urticaria and gonorrhoea. The leaves poultice is applied externally on affected body areas.

Due to cooling action of this herb, the leaves are considered specific remedy for burns. In case of burn and scalds, the leaf juice is mixed with ghee/butter and applied topically.

The paste of leaves is applied externally on ulcers, boils and abscesses to hasten suppuration.

For snakebites, crushed plant is applied topically at place of bite.

The fresh leaves juice of plant can be taken in dose of 10-20 ml. This juice has diuretic, demulcent, febrifuge, and laxative properties. It is beneficial to drink it during fluid retention, dysentery, diarrhoea, constipation and catarrh.

Medicinally Upodika/Malabar Spinach/Pasalai/Kodippasalai is used for treating variety of diseases.

The leaves are used externally in treatment sores, urticaria and gonorrhoea. The leaves poultice is applied externally on affected body areas.

Due to cooling action of this herb, the leaves are considered specific remedy for burns. In case of burn and scalds, the leaf juice is mixed with ghee/butter and applied topically.

The paste of leaves is applied externally on ulcers, boils and abscesses to hasten suppuration.

For snakebites, crushed plant is applied topically at place of bite.