Green Chiretta

Medicinal Uses:

• It is used by traditional medical practitioners for stomach-aches, inflammation, pyrexia, and intermittent fevers.

• It is used a de-worming agent in coastal Karnataka

• The leaf extract is used as remedy for the treatment of infectious disease, colic pain, loss of appetite, irregular stools and diarrhoea.

• In Malaysia, a decoction of the aerial parts is used to treat common cold, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, malaria and even snakebites.