Helicteres isora L.

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 113

Helicteres isora L.

Names.

Myanmar: thunge-che, tingkyut. English: East Indian screw tree.

Range.

Malay Archipelago. In Myanmar, found in Kachin and Taninthayi.

Uses.

Bark and Root: Stomachic. Fruit: Ingredient of a liniment.

Notes.

In India the leaf is used for stomachache; the fruit for stomach disorders and rickets in babies; the seed for stomach pain and dysentery, also the oil is massaged on body to relieve pain; the root for stomachache on sores and carbuncles (in combination with other plants), and for colic ( Jain and DeFilipps 1991). Perry (1980), in addition to Myanmar, lists the medicinal uses of the species in the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, South China, and Taiwan.

Reference.

Perry (1980).