**5. Ethno medicinal uses**

This plant has many uses in traditional health care in many countries especially in China and Nepal. Some of the uses are as/in analgesic, removes heat, antispasmodic, antitussive, depurative, snake bites, boils and ulcers, diphtheria and epidemic Japanese B encephalitis, stomach ache, appendicitis, tonsillitis, insect bites, boils. It also counteracts toxicity, causes the subsidence of swelling, alleviates pain and relieves convulsions, boils, carbuncles, sore throat, traumatic pain, convulsions. It also has anti-tumor action.
