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).
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum