Elipongu എലിപോങ്

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
This is a slender, prostates, creeping, smooth or somewhat hairy herb. The stems root at the nodes, and are 10-80 cm in length. The leaves are small, kidney-shaped to somewhat heart-shaped, 6-15 mm long, often wider than long, and irregularly toothed. One to three flowers occur on short stalks in the axils of the leaves. The sepals are rounded and about 4 mm long, with few to many white, weak hairs. The corolla is yellow, and nearly twice as long as the calyx. The capsule is rounded and about 5 mm in diameter.
The plant is bitter, acrid, refrigerant, deobstruant, diuretic, alterant, anthelmintic, carminative and digestive. It is useful in nephropathy, cardiac diseases, gastropathy, fever, anaemia, leucoderma, strangury, otalgia and rat bite