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Message: [QUOTE="Rajesh Sethi, post: 127563, member: 4457"] Flowering heads and leaves produce resin used as medicine or for intoxication, some like to smoke by mixing it with tobacco, oil from seeds are used for lamps or cooking, seed extract for treatment of earache, fibres from stem are used for making paper, textiles and rope, roots are boiled in water eases cramped joints, gout, violent pains, reduce bile secretion. Here in my place and to north its used in drink for intoxication during festival. ;) [SPOILER="other uses"] People used it as treatment for rheumatism, diarrhoea, dysentry, digestive disorders, intestinal worms, reduced appetite, cholera, reticence of speech and sadness, gynaecological disorders, dysmenorrhoea, absentmindedness, malaria fever, migraine, cough, bronchitis, asthma, oliguria, dysuria, induce sleep, heat stroke, applied to open wounds, burn injury, inflammation of the skin, haemorrhoids, conjunctivitis, orchitis, erysipelas, toothache, induce focus the mind, fatigue , as a form of anaesthetic, to increase egg laying in hens [/SPOILER] it was used to induce courage and fearless in warriors about to do battle. [SPOILER="side effect"] tends to weaken the constitution, render more susceptible to disease, excessive use indicates and intensifies mental instability, series of bizarre hallucinations and illusions, partial paralysis [/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]