Alternanthera sessilis = sessile joyweed

 

Vergleich: Siehe: Caryophylalles

 

[Alveera Singh]

Weed of rice land throughout tropical lands, and of other cereal crops, sugarcane, and bananas. The young tips are eaten as a vegetable. It is a very famous leafy vegetable in tribal and rural areas. The leaf is very rich in iron (17mg/100mg), Vitamin A (192mg/100mg) and dietary fiber (12g/100g). The plant contains about 5% protein and soups made with the leaf are given to anaemic patients in rural areas. It contains abundant carotene, therefore it is used for curing night blindness. The plant has a virtue as galactogogue and enhances

the secretion of milk in new mothers (Naples, 2005). Chemical constituentsare Sitosterol, stigmasterol, campesterol, spinasterol, oleanolic acid rhamnoside, 24-methylene cycloartenol, cycloeucalenol, lupeol, 5-cc-stigmasta-7-enol and palmitate. An infusion of the entire plant is used in Indonesia as a remedy against intestinal cramps, diarrhoea and dysentery (intestinal disorder), and externally as a cooling agent to treat fever. In Malaysia, it is used internally against intestinal inflammation and fever, and externally to treat wounds. In Taiwan, this plant is used in local medicine, often in mixtures with other medicinal plants, to treat hepatitis, congestion, bronchitis and asthma, ailments of the lung,

to stop bleeding and as a hair tonic. It is used in India against dysentery (intestinal disorder), as a cholagogue (increases bile flow in liver), abortifacient (causes abortion) and febrifuge (reduces fever) and to treat snake bites, inflamed wounds and boils (Naples, 2005).

 

 

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