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Euphorbia hirta
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(Dulal, 2012)
This plant is also commonly known as the asthma plant. The plant is common in India,
Africa, and the Philippines but it was originally discovered in the tropical regions in the
America’s. It is an important pantropical weed that grows in West Bengal, India generally in the
areas that are affected by Arsenic. The plant is rare because it has so many healing properties but
even more so because it is grown in Arsenic-affected areas and the Arsenic does not translocate
arsenic to the ariel parts of the plant.
It is a hairy herb that grows well in open grasslands, pathways, roadsides, and gardens. In
fact, I have some growing in my garden right now. I looked it up and that is how I stumbled on to
this topic.
It has many special healing properties. The sap is used to treat eye styes and its leaf
poultice is boiled to make tea and to extract juices that have many medicinal uses. It has been
used to treat female disorders, cough, coryza, bronchitis, and asthma, dysentery, jaundice,
pimples, gonorrhea, digestive problems, malaria, dengue fever and tumors. It also treats worms
in children[ CITATION Ind17 \l 1033 ].
The plant can be synthesized with other additives and has been used to remedy the
increasing threat of antibiotic resistance that is caused by abusing antibiotics[ CITATION EKE10
\l 1033 ].
The plant is commonly used in many different cultures to treat a wide array of
ailments and is widely used in
ethnopharmacology to develop new uses because it has so many
great medicinal uses.
There are no threats to this plant other than the usual harvest, but the plant
grows rapidly in almost all conditions if there is sun and rain. It is not threatened.
References
Aadil Khursheed, V. J. (2022). Euphorbia hirta as a gold mine of high-value phytochemicals: A
comprehensive review of its pharmacological activities and possible role against SARS-CoV-2.
Vietnamese Journal for Medical Biotechnology and Medicine Incorporating Advances in
Regenerative Medicine, 9
(2), 4930-4949. doi:org/10.15419/bmrat.v9i2.728
Dulal, K. (2012, October 12). Picture Euphorbia hirta, a medicinal herb found in Panchkhal valley.
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
EK. Elumalai, T. V. (2010). Green synthesis of silver nanoparticle using Euphorbia hirta L and their
antifungal activities.
Scholars Research Library(Archives of Applied Science Research), 2
(6), 76-81.
Pandey, I. K. (2017).
Antibacterial Activity of Euphorbia hirta L.
Singapore: Springer.
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