Carry Me Seed is a small herb, usually under 30 cm tall, with numerous small
oblong-elliptic or squarish leaves, glabrous, about 6-12 mm long. Yellow
flowers are very small, and hang down in beautiful array hidden below the
leaves. The flowers produce very small (2 mm) fruits that burst open and the
seeds are hurled away. This characteristic has inspired many of its common
names. When the plants are picked, the feathery leaves fold in, completely
closing themselves.
Medicinal uses: Carry Me Seed is an important plant of Indian Ayurvedic
system of medicine which is used in the problems of stomach, genitourinary
system, liver, kidney and spleen. It is bitter, astringent, stomachic,
diuretic, febrifuge and antiseptic. The whole plant is used in gonorrhea,
menorrhagia and other genital affections. It is useful in gastropathy,
diarrhoea, dysentery, intermittent fevers, ophthalmopathy, scabies, ulcers
and wounds.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
Photographed in Delhi.
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