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Food - Tender young shoots and leaves consumed raw or cooked as a pot-herb. Medicine - A decoction is used internally in the treatment of many ailments including irregular menstruation, measles, cancer, coughs, dysentery, enteritis and fever.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal
Temperate zone, altitude 2500m.
Perennialherb 20-80cm
Stem is trailing and produces adventitious roots, while the distal part of the stem grows vertically.
Leaves are alternate, broadly heart-shaped, 4-9 cm long and 3-8 cm broad.
Flowers, growing usually in summer, are greenish-yellow, borne on a terminal spike 2-3 cm long with 4-6 large white petal-like bracts
Fruits Jun-Oct
Flower:Apr-Sep