balatong pula (purple tephrosia)

Folkloric

- Used for coughs, tightness of the chest, bilious febrile attacks, obstructions of the liver, spleen and kidneys.

- Recommended as blood purifier, for boils and pimples.

- Roots used for dyspepsia and chronic diarrhea. Also used for ulcer and colic pains.

- Infusion of seeds used as cooling medicine.

- Decoction of pounded leaves used for snake bites.

- In Ceylon, used as anthelmintic for children.

- In Punjab, infusion of seeds considered cooling.

- In Ayurveda, plant is digestible, anthelmintic, alexiteric, antipyretic.

- In Sri Lanka, decoction of roots used as nematicide for treatment of Toxocara canis larvae which causes lung disease. Also used for colic, diarrhea and dyspepsia, and as anthelmintic.

- Fresh root-bark, ground and made into a pill, mixed with a little black pepper, used for obstinate colic.

- In traditional Indian medicine, a common ingredient of formulations for liver ailments. Also, used for bilious febrile attacks, liver and splenic affections, cirrhosis and hepatitis.

- Oil from seeds used for scabies, eczematous itching, and other skin eruptions.

- Used for piles, syphilis and gonorrhea

 

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