{UAH} Health benefits of Spider plant

Scientific name: Cleome gynandra
English name: Spider plant
Local names: Ejobyo(Luganda),Alot-dek (Luo), Eiyobyo(Runyoro-Rutoro), Echadoi (Ateso),Eshogi (Runyankole),Yobyu (Lusoga)

MEDICINAL USES:

1. Sap from leaves utilized as pain relieving agent, especially in cerebral pain.
2. Sap from pounded leaves is pressed into ears, nostrils, and eyes to treat epileptic fits and ear infection.
3. A decoction or mixture of bubbled leaves and/or roots is regulated to:
• Encourage labor pain in pregnant ladies.
• Treat stomach-throb and constipation.
• Treat conjunctivitis.
• Treat serious thread worm disease.
• Relieve burning chest pains.
4. The leaves have anti-inflamatory activities and are utilized to treat joint inflammation.
•5. Leaves are rubefacient and vesicant and used to treat neuralgia, otalgia, rheumatism, and stiffness. The leaves are rubbed on the affected parts.
6. It is utilized to treat looseness of the bowels, gonorrhea, fever, and rheumatoid arthritis. In India, the plant has been usually utilized as a rubefacient and anthelmintic agents.
7. Leaves are applied directly over the injuries to prevent sepsis.
8. The plant also used to treat piles, different stomach aches and in tumor.
9. The juice of the root is utilized to treat fevers.
10. Bruised leaves are applied to boils to stop pus discharge.
11. Infusion from leaves is utilized to treat iron deficiency.
12.Sap from the leaves used to cure intermittent intestinal sickness.
13. Leaves are rubbed onto the skin to relieve pneumonia.
14. An infusion of the leaves utilized as an eyewash.
15. Seeds are anthelmintic and rubefacient and are consumed for the removal of roundworms, or a mixture is applied externally on the stomach as a painkiller.
16. Seeds are blended with oil and applied to the scalp to treat headache.
17. Mixture of seed controls coughing.
18. Seeds are also utilized for veterinarians to treat stomach pains.
19. Leaves and the plant have anti-ticks and fleas preventive properties.
20. A decoction of roots is accounted for to have gentle febrifugal properties
21. Anthelmintic properties own by roots.
22. Leaves may be crushed to make a concoction that is drunk to cure diseases such as scurvy.

ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
1. It is a highly recommended meal for pregnant and lactating women.
2. It is believed that regular consumption of the leaves by pregnant women will ease childbirth by reducing the length of their labour, and will help them regain normal health more quickly afterwards.
3. However, in some communities, leaves boiled in water
are believed to dry up a mother's milk.
4. Eating the vegetable is believed to reduce dizzy spells
in pregnant women.
5. The vegetable does not appear to be a popular infant meal (for babies of up to 10 months), but is given to children from toddler age upwards.
6. The seeds are oleiferous, containing polyunsaturated oil, which is extracted by pressure and does not need
refining.
7.They are used as bird food. The seed cake has an excellent acid spectrum and can therefore be utilized in animal feeds.

DOSE:
1-3 grams and leaf decoction 50-100 ml.

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