Pharmacological action: Cardiac and nervine tonic, analgesic, antidote for poisons.
Medicinal use: Effective in fever and pain, poisonous insect bites, rheumatism, syphilis, cardiac and brain weakness. Tonic for vital organs.
Jalapa (Exogonium purga) (Jalap)
Pharmacological action: Anti-phlegmatic and purgative.
Medicinal use: Effective in purging the body of mal-humours. Cures constipation, facial paralysis, rheumatism and arthritis, flu and other catarrhal infections.