Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich.
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Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich. |
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Names.
Myanmar: ban, gon, kya-sha, lashen. English: China grass, Chinese silk plant, ramie.
Range.
Tropical Asia, where cultivated for fiber. Cultivated in Myanmar.
Use.
Root: Used as laxative.
Notes.
In India the leaf is used as a resolvent and the root as an aperient ( Jain and DeFilipps 1991). In China the plant is used as a hemostat; the leaf is astringent, used for fluxes and wounds; the root is used as an antiabortifacient, for cooling, a demulcent, diuretic, resolvent, uterosedative, for insect and snakebite, and poisoned arrow wounds. A decoction of the leaf is astringent, antihemorrhagic, diuretic, styptic, and also used for rectal prolapse, leucorrhea, urogenital inflammation, insect and snakebite, puerperal fever, erysipelas, poisoned arrow, and rheumatism ( Duke and Ayensu 1985).
Reference.
Nordal (1963).
Duke, JA, Ayensu, ES, 1985. Medicinal Plants of China. 2 Vols. Reference Publications, Inc., Algonac.
Jain, SK, DeFilipps, RA, 1991. Medicinal Plants of India. 2 Vols. Reference Publications, Inc, Algonac.
Nordal, A, 1963. The Medicinal Plants and Crude Drugs of Burma. Hellstrom & Nordahls Boktrykkeri, Oslo.
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