Description
Sans.-Apoedika; Potaki. Eng.-Indian spinach or malabar night-shade. Hind.-Poi. Mab.-Velbondi. Bom.-Velgonda. Tel.-Bachali. Tam.-Pachalai. Can.-Basale.
Uses.-It is used as a substitute for spinach. It makes a whole some and a most easily digested spinage and acts as a mild laxative. Leaves are reduced to pulp and applied to boils, ulcers and abscesses to hasten suppuration, and are also used in urticaria. Infusion of the dried leaves of basella lucida makes a nice drink,and mucilagin etc.
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