Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
654.13.03
654.13.03 Melastoma malabathricum
Names: Akar kududuk hitam; Senduduk; Sikaduduk.
Content: aluminium; oxalate; phospahte.
Botany: tropical Southeast Asia; soil acid, high aluminium, low nutrient.
Body
Infection: smallpox.
Mouth: toothache.
Heart: blood clotting problems.
Abdomen: colic; flatulence.
Rectum: diarrhoea, dysentery; piles.
Male: pain in the perineum, testicles and shuddering followed by heat without sweat.
Female: leucorrhoea.
Skin: ulcers; scarring from smallpox; dandruff.