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Other souring agents like tamarind can also be used. Other ingredients include leafy greens (like young sweet potato leaves, cabbage, or bokchoi), lemongrass, fish sauce, onions, and siling haba peppers [1]. The pork cut used is typically the hock (pata). The dish is characteristically purple in color due to the use of pigeon peas.
The immature fruits are pickled (see South Asian pickles) and are also used as a vegetable fodder. The leaves also yield good fodder. The fruits of C. dichotoma are edible. [5] 'Joshanda' is a Unani herbal medicine, known for its ability to manage colds, coughs, sore throats, nasal congestion, respiratory problems, and fevers. [6]
tea, medicinal leaves, flowers, roots, seeds, fruits Most of the plant is used as food: Catnip: Nepeta cataria: Lamiaceae: perennial herb: medicinal: leaves Tobacco: Nicotiana tabacum and related species Solanaceae: annual herb medicinal, ritual leaves, roots, extracts primarily used as a recreational drug: Black caraway: Nigella sativa ...
A tea from the leaves is used as a highly effective cough medicine. In the traditional Austrian medicine Plantago lanceolata leaves have been used internally (as syrup or tea) or externally (fresh leaves) for treatment of disorders of the respiratory tract, skin, insect bites, and infections. [18] Platycodon grandiflorus: Platycodon, balloon flower
Litsea garciae has many medicinal uses. The Iban use the lightly burned bark to treat caterpillar stings, and use a bark poultice to treat boils. The Selako use a poultice of the leaves or shoots along with shallot and fennel seeds to cure infections and skin diseases. It is also used to treat skin burns.
Sapindus emarginatus leaves, India. The drupes (soapnuts) contain saponins, which have surfactant properties, having been used for washing by ancient Asian and American peoples. [5] [6] A number of other uses for Sapindus have also been reported such as making arrows from the wood and decorative objects from the seeds. [7]
The medical ethnobotany of India is the study of Indian medicinal plants and their traditional uses. Plants have been used in the Indian subcontinent for treatment of disease and health maintenance for thousands of years, and remain important staples of health and folk medicine for millions.
Medicinal The bulbs also had various medicinal uses, both external (e.g., for making a poultice to be used as an antiseptic , or as a rub in cases of rheumatism ) and internal (decoctions were used for a range of purposes, including as a diuretic , as a laxative and against stomachache).