Pistia Stratiotes

Pistia Stratiotes
L.
Water lettuce (E); Buchona (C); Hodropica (C); Lechuga de agua (S); Sirena (C) . The leaves are mixed with soups but they should be parboiled to remove oxalate crystals. They are used to combat colds, dysentery. The ashes may be used as salt. Crushed leaves serve to dress abscesses, hemorrhoids, and ulcers. The roots are laxative and emollient, and used in cures for asthma, diabetes, dysnetery, and tuberculosis.

EthnoBotanical Dictionary. 2013.

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