Candle Bush

Medicinal Uses:

• The plant is traditionally used in the treatment of typhoid, diabetes, malaria, asthma, ringworms, tinea infections, scabies, blotch, herpes, and eczema.

• The whole plant is utilized as a curative for diabetes mellitus 

• In Nigeria, it is used in treatment of wounds, respiratory tract infection, burns, diarrhoea, and constipation.