Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 143

Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.

Names.

Myanmar: didok-chi, myet-lay-gwa. English: Egyptian grass.

Range.

Southeastern Europe; northern Africa; Macaronesia; Atlantic, Pacific and western Indian Ocean islands; temperate Asia; Arabia; China; India; Indo-China; Malesia; Australia; North America; Mexico; South and Meso-America; Caribbean. In Myanmar, found in Bago, Kachin, Mandalay, Taninthayi, and Yangon.

Uses.

Seed: Used an anodyne and antispasmodic.

Notes.

Medicinal uses of this species in China are discussed in Duke and Ayensu (1985). In India parched grains are eaten by women suffering from post-childbirth stomachache ( Jain and DeFilipps 1991). The species has astringent properties and, in the Philippines, is used internally in a decoction to treat dysentery and acute hemoptysis ( Perry 1980).

Reference.

Nordal (1963).