Mudakaruthan Keerai / Balloon Plant Dried Leaves (Raw)

Mudakaruthan Keerai / Balloon Plant Dried Leaves (Raw) - 100 gm

Botanical Name : Cardiospermum Halicacabum English Name : Balloon Plant Leaves Tamil Name : Mudakaruthan Keerai Hindi Name : Kapalphodi Malayalam Name : Jyotishmati Telugu Name : buddakakara

About :
Cardiospermum halicacabum, known as the balloon plant or love in a puff, is a climbing plant widely distributed in tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia. It has been examined for antidiarrhoeal as well as homoeopathic medicina properties. Indians use the leaves as the base of a few Indian dishes. Balloon vine?s other descriptive monikers include ?love in a puff,? and ?heart seed vine.? Though the mature leaves are too bitter and hairy to enjoy cooked or raw, the young leaves may be used in recipes. The taste of balloon vine resembles many greens with its grassy, earthy, astringent, bitter, and slightly salty taste.

Benefits :
It is used in the treatment of rheumatism, nervous diseases, stiffness of the limbs. The leaves are rubefacient, they are applied as a poultice in the treatment of rheumatism A tea made from them is used in the treatment of itchy skin. It is used in the treatment of Join pains. The leaf juice has been used as a treatment for earache. The root is diaphoretic, diuretic, emmenagogue, laxative and rubefacient It is occasionally used in the treatment of rheumatism, lumbago and nervous diseases It is used in treating Anemia, Asthma, Urinary Incontinence It is used in treating Arthritis, Backache, Baldness, Cough, Dandruff, Diarrhea, Dysentery, Earache, Eczema, Eye Diseases, Fracture, Gout, Headache, Menses Scanty, Menstrual Disorders, Piles, Rheumatism. It is used as Hair growth stimulation. Is used to treat for wounds & Swelling