Creeping tickfoil, desmodium triflorum

Creeping tickfoil
desmodium triflorum
KaliskisDalag- Common names in Philippine

Part used:
Roots, leaves and whole plant.

Uses Edibility In Burma, leaves reportedly eaten as vegetable.
Folkloric Leaves used in children for diarrhea, dysentery, indigestion and also for convulsions.
Leaves used as a galactagogue,and ground with cow's milk.
Roots used for asthma and coughs.
Malays drink the root decoction for stomach aches.
Plant used for fever with catarrh.
In Haiti, tea decoction used for rheumatism.
In India, leaves used for dysentery and diarrhea.

On Skin
  • Leaf paste or fresh leaves used for skin eruptions, wounds and abscesses.
  • Paste of the bruised leaves mixed with kamala applied to indolent sores and itches.
  • Expressed juice from a well macerated plant, is applied to abscesses and wounds that do not heal readity.
  • In Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Laos and India the crushed plant or a poultice of the leaves is externally applied on wounds, ulcers, and for skin problems in general, apparently for its antiseptic properties.

Botany

Other Studies

Antioxidant
Anti-Ulcer
Stachydrine / Pyrrolidine Alkaloids
Analgesic / Antiinflammatory



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