English Name : Haifa grass, Serpents' tongues, Sacred creeping grss, Sacrificial grass
Family : Poaceae
Origin : South-East Asia
Description
A tufted perennial grass with a thick scaly root-stock which sends out creeping rhizomes in all directions. Leaves coarse. Spikelets sessile or subsessile along the rachis of short spikes which form a narrow spike-like panicle, many-flowered, strongly laterally compressed; glumes markedly unequal, 1-nerved.
Habitat
Occurs on the edges of rice fields, in rock crevices, in savanna or scrub land, up to 200 m altitude.
Parts Used : Culm and root
Herb Effects
Diuretic, emollient, astringent and galactagogue (root); diuretic, stimulant, acrid and aphrodisiac (culm)
Medicinal Use
Used against dysentery, menorrhagia, bleeding disorders such as hemorrhoids, purpura etc., jaundice, asthma, strangury and skin eruptions (culm); in hyperdipsia, asthma and jaundice (roots).
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Habitat
Occurs on the edges of rice fields, in rock crevices, in savanna or scrub land, up to 200 m altitude.
Parts Used : Culm and root
Herb Effects
Diuretic, emollient, astringent and galactagogue (root); diuretic, stimulant, acrid and aphrodisiac (culm)
Medicinal Use
Used against dysentery, menorrhagia, bleeding disorders such as hemorrhoids, purpura etc., jaundice, asthma, strangury and skin eruptions (culm); in hyperdipsia, asthma and jaundice (roots).
Reference
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