A herbaceous plant. The leaves are bluntly heart shaped, alternate, and untoothed. The flowers are yellow, greenish in the throat, tubular with a flattened lip, swollen at base. They are borne in clusters in the axils of the upper leaves during June to September.
Herb Effects
Abortifacient, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, febrifuge, oxytocic and stimulant (herb)
Stimulates the uterus, induces menstruation, controls bacterial infections and promotes healing, in the treatment of slow-healing cuts, eczema, infected toe and finger nails (herb); to induce childbirth (stem juice); as a bath in rectal and colon cancer (decoction of leaves and stems).
Health Remedies 
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