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Medicine - All parts of the plant, but most often the seeds and roots, are used, mainly in the treatment of amoebic dysentery, diarrhoea and malaria.
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal
Wet tropical.
Perennial shrub 2m tall
Leaves are compound with three round to blunt leaflets 5-10 cm long
Flowers are small, white with five petals
Fruit is a round yellow cluster of druplets easily detaching from the receptacle
Flowering: Feb-April