Bandotan

bandotan or babadotan is widely known as a wound medicine. Way, by mashing bandotan and mixed with cooking oil, and used for external medicine only. The leaves of this plant knead, mixed with lime, applied to fresh wounds. Decoction of the leaves is also used for chest pain medication, while the leaf extract is for hot eye medication. Pounded roots applied to the body for fever drugs, extract can be drunk. The leaves can be used as eye drops, by pounding them. Water collision, can be dripped into the eye to wash the eyes. In Ivory Coast, bandotan is used for abdominal pain, wound healing, and for healing broken bones.
Substances contained in babadotan reported in 1987 are as follows: Essential oils, alkaloids, and coumarins.
However, these plants also have poison power. In the West, bandotan is also used as an insecticide and nematicide. Meanwhile, other research found that bandotan can cause injuries to the liver and grow tumors. This plant contains alkaloids pyroizidine.
Bandotan flowers are purplish white and have a 6-8 mm long node. The crown-shaped crown of a narrow tube almost resembles the shape of the bell. Compound flowers are gathered 3 and the haired stems.