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Who needs ganja when you’ve got this herb - eat and get 'excited' for 3 days


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On 7/1/2022 at 12:55 PM, curtklay said:

Does it have a real name?

Elephant's Foot. Elephantopus scaber

https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Elephantopus+scaber

Edible Uses

Young leaves - cooked and eaten like spinach

A powder made from the plant is added to 'marcha', a fermentation cake used in the preparation of local alcoholic drinks.

Medicinal

The plant is widely used as a medicinal herb in the tropics. It is anthelmintic, diaphoretic, diuretic, emmenagogue, emollient, febrifuge and tonic[310. It is used to treat conditions such as asthma, coughs and pulmonary diseases; dyspepsia, diarrhoea and dysentery; oedema; urethral discharges and venereal diseasesA decoction is used to treat fungal skin diseases

The roots are diuretic, febrifuge and tonic
They are used fresh to arrest vomiting
 Either pounded or in decoction, they are also used as a remedy for leucorrhoea, anaemia, cough, malaria and as a tonic during parturit
The leaves are recommended for application to the abdomen to treat dropsy[
 They are also used as an anthelmintic and aphrodisiac, and to treat cough, sprue and diarrhoea
The plant contains deoxyelephantopine, an antitumoral sesquiterpene lactone[
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On 7/1/2022 at 3:40 PM, jvs said:

Elephantopus scaber.

Very good herb for many ailments.

Only Thai people believe in its magic three day power.

No other country mentions the use as aphrodisiac .

 

Incorrect. Google it, or scroll down to my response. 

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