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Niog-niogan (burma creeper, rangoon creeper)

Folkloric

• Anthelmintic: Dried seeds preferable for deworming.

• Adults: Dried nuts-chew 8 to 10 small- to medium-sized dried nuts two hours after a meal, as a single dose, followed by a half glass of water. If fresh nuts are used, chew only 4-5 nuts. Hiccups occur more frequently with the use of fresh nuts.

• Children 3-5 years old: 4-5 dried nuts; 6 - 8 years old: 5-6 dried nuts; 9-12 years old: 6-7 dried nuts.

• Roasted seeds for diarrhea and fever.

• Plant used as a cough cure.

• Leaves applied to the head to relieve headaches.

• Pounded leaves externally for skin diseases.

• Decoction of boiled leaves used for dysuria.

• Ifugao migrants use it for headache.

• Ripe seeds roasted and used for diarrhea and fever.

• In Thailand, seeds used as anthelmintic; flowers for diarrhea.

• In India and Ambonia, leaves used in a compound decoction to relieve flatulent distention of the abdomen. Leaves and fruits are reported to be anthelmintic; also used for nephritis.

• In India and the Moluccas, seeds are given with honey as electuary for the expulsion of entozoa in children.

• In Indo-China, seeds are used as anthelmintic and for rickets in children.

• The Chinese and Annamites reported to use the seeds as vermifuge.

• In China, seeds macerated in oil are applied to parasitic skin diseases. Seeds are also used for diarrhea and leucorrheal discharges of children.

• In Amboina compound decoction of leaves used for flatulent abdominal distention.

• In Bangladesh, used for diarrhea, fever, boils, ulcers and helminthiasis.

 

source: staurt xchange

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