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tungkod pare (GOOD LUCK PLANT)

Folkloric

· Used for hemoptysis due to pulmonary tuberculosis, premature abortion, excessive menstruation and blood in urine, bleeding due to piles.

· Used in enteritis-bacillary dysentery, rheumatic bone pains, swelling pain due to sprains.

· Dosage: use 60 to 90 gms fresh leaves or 30 to 60 gms dried roots or 9 to 15 gms dried flowers in decoction.

· In Fiji, root used for baldness, gum abscess, gingivitis, toothaches; leaf juice for eczema, abdominal pain, gastritis, eye infections; leaf buds used for lower chest pains. Also, leaves and stems used as abortifacient.

· In Java, sweet rhizome used with betel leaf to cure diarrhea and dysentery. Also, used for indigestion.

· In Malaya, decoction of red leaves with Lygodium used for dysentery.

· In New Guinea, root decoction used by lactating mothers to treat mammary gland infection. Juice from heated leaves used for colds, cough, and whooping cough.

· Infusion of new plant shoots used for filariasis. Stem juice used for postpartum illnesses and to help expel the placenta.

· Roots used to treat baldness. Leaf juice used for earaches, sore eyes, cough, stomachaches, eczema and gastritis. Roots used for treating toothaches and laryngitis.

· In Sumatra, outer part of the stem used with white sale for inflamed gums.

· In Hawaii, leaves used as heat pack; also for fever, asthma, chest congestion, headache, back pain, burns, constipation; flower juice snorted for nasal polyps.

· Surinamese Indonesians use pieces of root in vinegar for bleeding. Leaf infusion in oil used to treat wounds. Infusion of three crushed leaves of the purple cultivar used for a hypotensive drink. Proximal part of the leaf. macerated in olive oil, used as a cataplasm or tampon for wounds.

· In Lombok, Indonesia, used for diarrhea. Leaves used for wounds inflicted by fish stings.

·In Samoa, used for elephantiasis, gout, scrotal swellings, and back pains.

 

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Taken on November 12, 2011