Blumea balsamifera
Common Name – Langthrei
Parts Used: Whole plant
Uses: The whole plant is used in insomnia, as expectorant and in cough. Leaf extract stabilizes high blood pressure and acts as a relieve from body pain.
Calotropis gigantea
Common Name – Angkot
Parts Used: Whole Plant
Uses: The fresh leaves are applied as dry fomentations on swellings. The dried bark of the roots is an excellent substitute for Ipecacunha, which is used in the treatment of dysentery. Milky juice is regarded as caustic and drastic purgative. It is used in toothache, fractures and dog bites.
Cassia tora
Common Name – Thounam
Parts Used: Seed
Uses: Raw seeds are used as laxative, painkiller for headache, constipation and hypertension. Leave and seed paste is also used in skin diseases.
Chenopodium album
Common Name – Monshaobi
Parts Used: Whole Plant
Uses: The plant is carminative, laxative, anthelmintic, diuretic and tonic. It is used to cure peptic ulcer, dyspepsia, seminal weakness and liver enlargement. It also acts as blood purifier. It is rich in iron and acts as a stimulant during spleen disorders.
Coix lacryma-jobi
Common Name – Chaning
Parts Used: Seed
Uses: Seed is used as blood purifier and also as tonic. Seed powder paste is used in gout and in the local drink preparation.
Costus speciosus
Common Name – Khongban takhelei
Parts Used: Rhizome
Uses: Decoction of rhizome is used to cure urinary troubles and dissolve stones. Pounded rhizome and black pepper are boiled in water and extract is taken orally to treat any kind of body pain.
Dioscorea bulbifera
Common Name – Ha
Parts Used: Leaf and tuber
Uses – The leaves are used as pain killer. The tubers are used in hemoptysis, epistaxis, pyogenic infections, scrofula, orchtis, sprains and various injuries.
Drymaria cordata
Common Name – Tandan-pambi
Parts Used: Whole Plant
Uses: Plant is used in phthisis, hectic fever, dyspepsia and cough. Hot-fomentation of the plant can be applied externally during muscular sprains. The apical portion is used in nasal blockade, fever, cold, throat discomfort and painful menstruation.
Alpinia galanga
Common Name – Kanghoo
Parts Used: Rhizome
Uses: Fresh rhizome is applied to ringworm and other skin diseases. It wards off intestinal worms, high body temperature and acts as an abortifacient. The paste is also applied in leucoderma and regulates blood circulation.
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If you could provide pictures or photographs of the plant along with their local name, it will be great help to recognise the plants.
Thank you.