Mikania micrantha KunthFamily: Asteraceae (Compositae)
Common names: Mile-a-Minute Vine, Bitter Vine, Bitter tally, Climbing Hemp Vine, American Rope
Fijian: Usuvanua, Wa bosucu, Wa mbosuthu, Wa mbutako, Wa ndamele
French: liane americaine
German: Chinesischer Sommerefeu
Haitian: Bwa zamann
Malayalam: ധൃതരാഷ്ട്രപ്പച്ച, Vayara
Spanish: Guaco falso
Uses: Hypoglycemic, antimicrobial, anticancer, hemostatic. Tender shoots eaten for indigestion and constipation. Stem squeezed, mixed with ginger rhizomes and eaten to give relief to colds, malaria, stomachache and headache. Leaf juice applied on cuts and wounds; the rhizome of Curcuma longa and the leaves of Mikania micrantha crushed and the juice taken against sores, ulcers; Amorphophallus bulbi- fer rhizome paste mixed with leaves of Litsea monopetala and Mikania micrantha applied externally in stomachache; leaves decoction a remedy for dysentery; leaves boiled with those of Vitex peduncularis taken against fever. For snake bites, the fer-de-lance (Bothrops atrox), and scorpion stings, leaves crushed up in a rag and applied as a poultice to the wound; young leaves infusion an antidote for snakebites and for treating syphilis [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]
Dried aerial parts, infusion: as an antidote, vulnerary, for diabetes Leaf, decoction: antivenin, against malaria, to treat urinary tract infections; infusion: febrifuge Stem: alexipharmic, cicatrizant, febrifuge, for conjunctivitis [ Medicinal flora of Argentina]
Whole plant: Tea for stomachache and to clean out the uterus (dilation and curettage). Boiled with other plants for tonic to reduce malarial fever. Stem and Leaf: Decoction for a children's clyster. Used to treat malaria and eczema om NW Guyana. Leaf: Juice for external ulcers and itch. Infusion for snakebite and syphilis; bowels; cholagogue. Leaf in liquid mixture for children's anal thrush, and placed in hot water bath for women after confinement for pregnancy. Decoction for a febrifuge bath; in a diuretic tea. Infusion used for washing rashes, skin eruptions and smallpox in Surinam. Leaves are boiled, and the water drunk as an anti-menorrhagic, by the Guyana Patamona. Leaves are boiled, and the water used for washing the skin as a treatment for chicken pox or for measles, by the Guyana Patamona. Juice from macerated leaves is applied to persistent sores and “bush-yaws”, by the Guyana Patamona. Macerated leaves are vigorously rubbed on skin as a treatment for rashes, by the Guyana Patamona. [Medicinal Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana)]
Dried aerial parts, infusion: as an antidote, vulnerary, for diabetes Leaf, decoction: antivenin, against malaria, to treat urinary tract infections; infusion: febrifuge Stem: alexipharmic, cicatrizant, febrifuge, for conjunctivitis [ Medicinal flora of Argentina]
Whole plant: Tea for stomachache and to clean out the uterus (dilation and curettage). Boiled with other plants for tonic to reduce malarial fever. Stem and Leaf: Decoction for a children's clyster. Used to treat malaria and eczema om NW Guyana. Leaf: Juice for external ulcers and itch. Infusion for snakebite and syphilis; bowels; cholagogue. Leaf in liquid mixture for children's anal thrush, and placed in hot water bath for women after confinement for pregnancy. Decoction for a febrifuge bath; in a diuretic tea. Infusion used for washing rashes, skin eruptions and smallpox in Surinam. Leaves are boiled, and the water drunk as an anti-menorrhagic, by the Guyana Patamona. Leaves are boiled, and the water used for washing the skin as a treatment for chicken pox or for measles, by the Guyana Patamona. Juice from macerated leaves is applied to persistent sores and “bush-yaws”, by the Guyana Patamona. Macerated leaves are vigorously rubbed on skin as a treatment for rashes, by the Guyana Patamona. [Medicinal Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana)]
Crushed leaves used externally for hornet stings and to stop bleeding [Samoan Medicinal Plants]
389 Published articles of Mikania micrantha
