Steinmetz:Blumea
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Blumea balsamifera (and other species)
- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Compositae
- English Names
- Ngai Camphor shrub
- Buffalo's Ear
- Natural Habitat
- India
- Indonesia
- China
- Burma
- Fiji Islands and other tropical countries
- Part(s) Used
- Folia Blumeae balsamiferae
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- Constituent(s)
- Action
- deobstruent
- expectorant
- resolvent
- aromatic
- sudorific
- carminative
- astringent
- vermifuge. The plant produces Ngai camphor = Blumea camphor
- which in China is employed partly in medicine and partly in perfuming the fine kinds of Chinese ink.
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