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Uses
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Alternanthera
sessilis is used in local medicine in Taiwan, often in mixtures
with other medicinal plants, to treat hepatitis, tight chest, bronchitis, asthma and
other lung troubles, to stop bleeding and as a hair tonic.
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Decumbent
herbs, stem glabrous. Leaves simple, opposite, 3-4 x 1 cm, elliptic-oblong to
oblanceolate, apex obtuse, base attenuate into a petiole, crenate, glabrous.
Spike 7-12 x 5 mm, sessile, solitary or 2-3 together; bracts and bracteoles
similar, 1 mm long, broadly ovate, acute, glabrous. Flowers yellowish red.
Tepals equal, 2.5 x 1.5 mm, ovate, acute, glabrous, 3-nerved at base. Stamens
3. Achenes 2 x 2 mm, obovoid, emarginate at apex; seed orbicular, compressed,
brown.
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