Oxygonum sinuatum health benefits

Botanical Name: Oxygonum sinuatum
Common Name  Local Name: #Kafumita_Bagenda, Kafumita Bagenge
Nutrients: -
Richer in iron than the common cabbage brassica oleracea var capitata, emodin, coleon A lactone

Edible uses
- Leaves - raw or cooked and eaten as a vegetable
Have an acid flavour
- The leaves are usually cooked with other vegetables such as amaranthus, bidens and galinsoga species in order to soften them
- A favourite dish in some areas, whilst in others it is considered to be a famine food and is only eaten when there is nothing better available
- The dried and powdered leaves and shoots are stored for future use - they have a milder flavour than the fresh leaves.

Medicinal
- The stems are chewed as a treatment for tonsilitis
- The leaves are applied as a poultice on boils
- They are squeezed and the juice is dropped into the eyes to treat conjunctivitis, and is applied topically to treat fungal infections of the legs and feet.
- The roots are used for the treatment of venereal diseases
- Skin infection, pounded leaves, local application
Boils, leaves: stems crushed and packed into or onto the surface of the skin: as needed to effect result - - For threadworms, a strong decoction of the leaves,
- Ashes of leaves are used for carbuncle and furuncle
- Inflammation of the conjunctiva, crushed leaves, juice, drops in eyes
- Diabetes, cold infusion of pounded whole plant of oxygonium sinuatum,
- Wounds, warts, the leaves of oxygonum sinuatum are burnt and the ash licked
- For liver diseases, macerate 50 g of whole plant of oxygonum sinuatum with 1 l of h2o.
- Whitlow infection, ashes of leaves of oxygonum sinuatum in local application
- A potential remedy for fibroids and cancerous wounds.
- East coast fever in animals.

Comment, share, subscribe