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Ayurveda : Plant pacifies vitiated pitta, piles, diabetes, renal and venereal diseases and vesical calculi. Root decoction is diuretic. * A juice or powder of the whole plant is used to treat urinary troubles in Nepal. * The juice of the leaves is used as drops to relieve earaches. * The root is used as a tonic in the treatment of fevers, diarrhoea and pulmonary affections. * The root juice is used to treat coughs and colds, haemorrhoids, asthma and urinary problems. * Externally, the root is bruised and applied as a poultice to boils and ophthalmia, it is also considered helpful in relieving backache. The root of this plant has a high reputation in indigenous systems of medicine for dissolving stones in the kidneys.