Cleome viscosa

Common Name : Tickweed

Binomial Name : Cleome viscosa

Tamil Name : Naikkaduku

Family : Cleomaceae

Date : 21 june 2015

Place : Kunichampet, Pondicherry, India

Uses

---> The juice of the plant is used as a condiment

---> An oil obtained from the seeds is used for cooking

---> The seedpods are made into pickles

---> The pungent seed can be pickled or used as a mustard or cumin substitute in curries, pickling spices, vegetables and pulses. A pleasant flavour

---> Leaves and young shoots cooked as a vegetable. A sharp mustard-like flavour. Boiled with chillies and salt

---> The plant is used as a stimulant in food in order to improve the appetite

---> A decoction is used as an expectorant and digestive stimulant to treat conditions such as colic and dysentery

---> The leaves are used as an external application to treat wounds and ulcers; relieve rheumatism; and to act as a counterirritant to treat herpes infections

---> The juice of the leaves has been used to relieve earache

---> A decoction of the seeds is used as a wash to treat piles

---> A paste of the root is applied externally in the treatment of earaches