Medical Plant - Ajeran (Bidens Pilosa)

Ajeran
Bidens Pilosa

Common name know it as Farmer’s Friend, Cobbler’s pegs, Beggar’s ticks, Pitchforks. Infusions have been used as a tonic and stimulant. In Southeast Asia a decoction was drunk for coughs and the juice of leaves dropped into the eye for conjunctivitis. In Africa young shoots where chewed for the relief of rheumatism and strong decoction of the leaves was drunk for any inflammation

A diffusion was used to treat dysentery – the fresh juice earache, used all over the world for various ailments.

A weak annual herb usually a metre or less in height, with spreading branches. Leaves are in opposite paris, this, soft and hairy, mostly divided but also undivided. The flowers (summer-autumn), technically heads of tiny flowers, terminate all branches and branchlets. Each head has five or so white ‘petals’ (rays) around a dense cluster of orange florets. These rapidly mature to star-heads of the dry pronged fruitlets.

Medical plans treatment for:

Acute infections hepatitis, Rheumatic arthritis, Diarrhea

• 60 – 120 grams Bidens Pilosa's plants
• 30 – 60 grams Onion
• Boiled that mixed and divide into four doses (4 times dinking for 1 day)

Encephalitis

• 15 – 30 grams Bidens Pilosa's plants
• 30 – 90 grams Murraya Paniculata
• Boiled all with 4 glasses of water become 1 ½ glasses
• Was drunk for 2 times (in serious conditions was drunk for once time)
• Drunk twice each day

Toothaches
Chewed some Bidens Pilosa's leaves

Pyodermi, Itchy, Animal Poisons bite, Bruise, Hemorrhoids
Pulverized the fresh Biddens Pilosa's plants and placed on the wounds area
OR cleaned that wounds area with boiled of the plants

Bidens Pilosa plants contains Phytosterin-B that could be used for anti pyretic, anti inflammation, bleeding stopper and blood vessel

For more descriptions see Bidens Pilosa