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Description:
· Erect, branched, slender, glabrous or nearly glabrous
herb, 10 to 40 cm high, the branches angled.
· Leaves: distichous, imbricate, alternate, pale beneath,
sessile, elliptic-oblong to oblong, thin, 5 to 10 mm long, obtuse
or apiculate, base slightly oblique, stipules lanceolate.
· Flowers: unisexual, very small, 5-merous, axillary,
about 1 mm in diameter, sessile or very shortly pedicelled. Sepal
greenish, stamens 3, filaments united below; anthers erect, the
slit vertical.
· Fruits: capsules about 2 mm in diameter, muricate or
smooth, of 3 dehiscent.
Distribution
A weed in open spaces at low and medium altitude.
In waste places throughout the Philippines.
Parts
utilized
· Part utilized: entire plant.
· Collect from May to October.
· Rinse, half-dry under the sunlight, compress, then continue
drying under shade.
Folkloric
uses
· Infantile convulsions, hepatitis, jaundice.
· Nephritic edema, urinary infection and lithiasis.
· Enteritis-diarrhea, dysentery,
· Reddening and swelling pains of the eye.
·Dosage: use 15 to 30 gms of dried material or 30 to 60
gms of fresh material in decoction.
Availability
Wild-crafted.
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