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Create a new Treatment using this IngredientDescription: It is hardy to zone 0 and is frost tender. The flowers are hermaphrodite .The plant prefers light (sandy) and medium (loamy) soils and requires well-drained soil. The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils. It cannot grow in the shade. It requires dry or moist soil. Leaves and young shoots - cooked as a vegetable. It has a sharp mustard-like flavor. The pungent seed can be pickled or used as a mustard substitute in curries. The seedpods are made into pickles. The juice of the plant is used as a condiment. Oil obtained from the seeds is used for cooking. The leaves are diaphoretic, rubefacient and vesicant. They are used as an external application to wounds and ulcers. The juice of the leaves has been used to relieve earache. The seeds are ant-helmintic, carminative, rubefacient, stimulant and vesicant. The seed contains 0.1% viscosic acid and 0.04% viscosin. A paste of the root is applied externally in the treatment of earaches.
Added by Annette 11 days ago
Conditions Treated: Infectious Diseases
Specific Conditions Treated: Waterborne Enteric Fevers
Ingredients Participating: Cleome viscosa
Enteric Fevers or Salmonella Infections is the name given to a class of infections caused by Salmonella Typhi bacteria. It is one of the most common food borne disease in the U.S. ... more
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Added by Annette 11 days ago
Conditions Treated: Infectious Diseases
Specific Conditions Treated: Rubeola
Ingredients Participating: Cleome viscosa
Roseola or Baby Measles is a mild infection that affects children between two to five years. It occasionally affects adults. Roseola Infantum is extremely common in children as the... more
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Added by Annette 11 days ago
Conditions Treated: Infectious Diseases
Specific Conditions Treated: Waterborne Shigellosis
Ingredients Participating: Cleome viscosa
Shigellosis or Bacillary dysentery is a water-borne disease and is caused by the Shigella bacteria. The bacteria enter the body through contaminated food or water. The bacteria pro... more
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Added by Annette 11 days ago
Conditions Treated: Infectious Diseases
Specific Conditions Treated: Amoebic Dysentery
Ingredients Participating: Cleome viscosa
Amoebiasis is a parasitic infection, caused by Entamoeba histolytica. The complication of the disease can be rapidly fatal. Secretions by the parasite known as proteinases lyse the... more
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Added by Annette 11 days ago
Conditions Treated: Infectious Diseases
Specific Conditions Treated: Amoebic Dysentery
Ingredients Participating: Cleome viscosa
Amoebiasis is a parasitic infection, caused by Entamoeba histolytica. The complication of the disease can be rapidly fatal. Secretions by the parasite known as proteinases lyse the... more
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