Aadunarivela ആടുനാറിവേള

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Aadunarivela is an erect, branching plant generally between 25 cm and 60 cm tall. Its sparse leaves are each made up of 3-5 oval-shaped leaflets. The flowers are white to rose pink. The seed is a brown 1.5mm diameter sphere. The leaves are edible.
Bruised leaves are rubifacient and vesicant and used as counter irritant in headache, neuralgia, rheumatism and local pains. The juice of the leaves, alone or mixed with oil, is dropped into the ear in earache. The leaves are taken internally in certain bilious disorders. A decoction of the roots is reported to possess mild febrifugal properties.