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Cleome viscosa

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Name: Cleome viscosa

Description: 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.

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Specific Conditions Treated: Waterborne Enteric Fevers

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Specific Conditions Treated: Waterborne Shigellosis

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Specific Conditions Treated: Amoebic Dysentery

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