Dicoma tomentosa

[Devendra Bhardwaj]

Family: Asteraceae

Name: Vajardanti 

Species: Dicoma tomentosa

Date: Sep 8, 2010

Place: Smriti Van, Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, Jhalana Doongri, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Note: Root is used for toothache. Whole plant is useful in febrile attacks to which women are prone to after child birth. The plant is applied as a dressing to septic wounds, and is used in a fumigation to relieve skin-itch. The leaves and fruit are burnt in a hole over which the patient squats when treating pain in the testicles.