MIMOSA PUDICA

(Makahiya)

HEALTH BENEFITS

Makahiya grass cures such as:

Diabetes

Asthma

Wounds & sore

Piles & Fistula

Glandular swelling

Diuteric

Dysentery

Bruises

Fevers

Metropathy

Ulcers

Imflammation

Rheumatism

Edema

Dysmenorrhea

Uterine

Tumors


PROPERTIES

anti asthmatic
 antispasmodic
antidepressant
 alexipharmic
antispasmodic
antidepressant
anticonvulsant
 antimalarial
antinociceptive
antimenorrhagic


Makahiya is a diffusely spreading, half-woody herb, with branched stems up to 1 meter long, sparingly prickly with numerous deflexed, bristly hairs. The leaves are very sensitive, both pinnae and leaflets, folding when touched. Pinnae are usually 4, digitately arranged at the end of each petiole, and 4 to 9 centimeters long. The leaflets are narrowly oblong, inequilateral, 1 to 1.5 centimeters long, sessile, sparingly bristly, with pointed tips. Heads are long-peduncled, solitary or 2 to 3 in each axil, about 1 centimeter in diameter. Pods are flat, slightly recurved, 1 to 2 centimeters long, with 3 to 5 one-sided joints that fall away on maturity. Florets are red in the upper part with pink to lavender filaments.

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