Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.55.08
665.55.08 Plectranthus amboinicus
Names: Coleus amboinicus.
Sanskrit: Pashanbhedi, Himasagara; Bengali: Patharkuchi; Hindi: Paterchue; Hati hati; Nilam.
Content: quercetin, carvachrol, sitosterol, crategolic acid, ursolic acid, salvigenin, quercetin, chrysoeriol, luteolin, apigenin, taxifolin.
Source: Ayurveda.
Body
General: cancer; inflammation, histamine, allergy; metabolic syndrome.
Infection: virus; herpes, mouth genitals.
Lungs: chronic cough, asthma.
Stomach: dyspepsia.
Rectum: cholera; colic of children; piles; constipation.
Urinary: urine suppressed, retained, stones; urination, urination painful, dribbling difficult; burning pains during and after urination; cystitis, bladder catarrh.
Genital: gonorrhoea.
Limbs: ecchymosis.
Skin: boils, carbuncles.