A perennial herb approx. 5±90 cm in height. Leaves single palmately compound composed of five to 21 leafets on a monopodial pseudostem. Flowers pale green; interior portions of flower thick, fleshy and textured, and the emerging spadix is white at the mouth of the flower, but shaded green and dull purplis.
Herb Effects
Acrid, irritant, analgesic, anticancer, expectorant and as a sialogogue (root).
The dried roots are indicated in the treatment of coughs with profuse phlegm, tumors, cervical cancer, epilepsy, tetanus, complaints involving convulsions, spasms and twitching, dizziness, blood poisoning, inflammation of the liver and pancreas, snake bite, apoplexy and hemiplegia.
Health Remedies 
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