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• For container growing: choose a pot just a few centimetres larger than the root ball (sizing up each year), with plenty of drainage holes.
• Water the roots thoroughly and let them drain before potting.
• Fill the pot with a good potting compost mixed with horticultural grit, plus slow-release fertiliser if the compost doesn't already contain it.
• Position the roots so their top sits about 3cm below the rim, fill in around them, firming gently, then tap the pot to settle the compost.
• Soak well with water, and top with a grit mulch to prevent a hard crust forming on the surface.

• Traditionally used for post-natal complaints, dyspepsia, stomach-ache, colic, and dysentery.
• Leaf juice is used against neglected syphilitic complaints, and applied externally for oedema, swellings, and ulcers.
• Root is a bitter tonic given during recovery from measles, and as a demulcent for gonorrhoea.
• Research on a methanolic leaf extract found it genuinely effective against diarrhoea in lab studies, reducing gut motility and fluid secretion, lending some scientific weight to its folk use.
• It also responds well to trimming and can be grown as a hedge.

These uses are documented for information only and are not medical advice. Always verify the species and the plant part before use.

• plantuse.org
• gujarativishwakosh.org
• hayloft.co.uk