valika :
General Use:
Food: general Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavourings Medicines: generally healing Medicines: pain-killers whole plant Medicines: pulmonary troubles Medicines: laxatives, etc. Medicines: diarrhoea, dysentery Medicines: vermifuges Medicines: pregnancy, antiaborifacients Medicines: dropsy, swellings, oedema, gout Medicines: tumours, cancers plant Phytochemistry: tannins, astringents fruit Phytochemistry: miscellaneously poisonous or repellent Agri-horticulture: fodderTherapeutic Uses:
The whole plant is eaten as a general strength restorative, e.g. after miscarriage[]. The cooked green leaves are eaten to treat asthma[]The plant is considered to be a purgative in some areas, whilst in others it is taken to cure diarrhoea[].
It is used as a taenicide, but the plant should be consumed with great caution[].
The leaves are rubbed on swellings and the stem, pounded in butter, is placed on aching muscles[].
The sap of the plant is used against warts[].
The roots are made into a chest medicine[].
The seeds probably possess anthelmintic properties[].
Several phenolic acids have been identified in the vegetative parts, including p-OH-benzoic acid, caffeic acid, p-coumaric acid and vanillic acid[]. Ferulic and sinapic acids were absent, although these are usually present in the Aizoaceae[].
The tannin-like principles α- and β-gisekia have been found in the seed[].
Tannins are present in the whole plant[].
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