shana :
Use in other system of medicine:
Edibility
- Flowers and leaves reportedly eaten as vegetable.
- In Vietnam, seeds are roasted and eaten.
Folkloric
- No reported folkloric medicinal use in the Philippines.
- In Ayurveda, plant vitiated kapha, vata, cough, dyspepsia, fever.
- Powdered seeds mixed with milk used for increasing body strength; also used for skin diseases.
- In Cameroon, plant used in the treatment of eczema.
- In Tamil Nadu, India, plant used for cough, dyspepsia, fever, cardiac disorders, stomatitis, diarrhea, scabies, impetigo.
- In Zaria, northern Nigeria, powdered plant mixed with roasted black caraway, taken in small quantities for stomach coli and flatulence. Squashed flowers with added potash, cooked into a soup, and taken for amenorrhea. For scabies, decoction of whole plant used for bathing.
- Roots used for hemoptysis.
- Leaves mixed with those of Crotalaria quinquefolia, consumed or applied externally for fever, scabies, lung afflictions, and impetigo.
- In Bangladesh, tribal people in the Chittagong Hill tracts use fresh juice and paste of leaves and seeds for skin diseases.
- In India, seeds used for skin infection, constipation and pain.
Others
- Fiber: Bark and stems are sources of strong fiber; used for cordage and making canvas.
- Dye: In East Africa, used as dye plant.
- Oil: Seed yields a non-edible, non-dryiing oil, with potential for use in making shampoo, creams, and shoe polish.
- Livestock hazard: Poses a potential hazard to livestock because of pyrrolizidine alkaloid content.
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