Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
1,214 Hyacinth Bean Pod Food The young green pods and immature seeds are eaten boiled. 8,406
1,215 Hyacinth Bean Seed Food The young green pods and immature seeds are eaten boiled. Elsewhere, e.g. in northern Nigeria and Kenya , the dry seeds are eaten as a pulse although they require prolonged cooking with several changes of water. 8,406
1,216 Hyacinth Bean Leaf Food Locally, the young leaves are used as a leafy vegetable. 8,406
1,217 Hyacinth Bean Whole Feed (Forage/Fodder) The whole plant is used as a fodder for cattle, either green or as hay or silage. 8,406
1,218 Hyacinth Bean Leaf Medicinal In East Africa the leaves are crushed and sniffed to cure headache. They are used as emmenagogue and to accelerate childbirth and to treat stomach troubles. Green leaves crushed in vinegar have been used to treat snakebites. In Rwanda the leaves are taken in a decoction of a mixture with leaves of other plants in case of heart problems. In DR Congo the leaves are made into an infusion which is drunk to cure tonsillitis. 8,406
1,219 Hyacinth Bean Seed Medicinal In Senegal the seed is given as a stomachic and antispasmodic and has been used in the treatment of cholera and sunstroke. 8,406
1,220 Hyacinth Bean Root Environmental Lablab is widely grown for soil improvement and in soil and water conservation programmes. 8,406
1,221 Peppermint Whole Medicinal In the Indian Materia Medica, leaves of Mentha piperita L. , in infusion, are used in cases of vomiting, gastric colic, cholera, diarrhoea, flatulence, weak digestion, hiccup and palpitation of the heart. Peppermint leaves are traditionally used as carminative herbal medicinal product with therapeutic indications for the symptomatic treatment of digestive disorders such as dyspepsia (e.g. spastic complaints of the upper gastrointestinal tract), flatulence, gastritis, enteritis and also as cholagogue. 8,405
1,222 Hyacinth Bean Leaf Industrial In Zanzibar a green dye was obtained from pounded leaves. 8,406
1,223 Hyacinth Bean Whole Ornamental In the United States it is occasionally grown as an ornamental. 8,406
1,224 Peppermint Extract (oil) Industrial Peppermint leaves and extract can be used in cosmetic formulations as fragrance ingredients. Peppermint water can be used as a flavouring agent or, also, as a fragrance component. 8,405
1,225 Nalta Jute Leaf Food It is used as a leafy mucilaginous vegetable. 8,408
1,226 Peppermint Extract (oil) Medicinal Peppermint oil has been classified by the HMPC for use externally in coughs and colds, with muscle pain and itchiness of intact skin as a traditional herbal medicinal product and internally it can be used as inhalant. 8,405
1,227 Peppermint Leaf Medicinal The HMPC has categorised peppermint leaves for the following applications as a traditional herbal medicine. Peppermint leaves are used in combination with other drugs for the digestive function or to release the mucus in the respiratory tract. Peppermint leaves as tea, even in teabags. 8,405
1,228 Nalta Jute Plant Fiber Fibre It has been the most widely used packaging fibre for more than 100 years because of its strength and durability, low production costs, ease of manufacturing and availability in large and uniform quantities. 8,408
1,229 Nalta Jute Root Medicinal Root scrapings of Nalta Jute are used in Kenya to treat toothache and a root decoction as a tonic. 8,408
1,230 Nalta Jute Leaf Medicinal An infusion from the leaves is taken in Tanzania against constipation. 8,408
1,231 Nalta Jute Seed Medicinal Seeds in Nigeria as a purgative and febrifuge. 8,408
1,232 Leucaena Whole Environmental Throughout the tropics leucaena provides a major nitrogen-fixing component of lowland wasteland, fallow land and forest, where it is often a primary source of fixed nitrogen in the ecosystem. 8,410
1,233 Leucaena Whole (without root) Industrial A dye has been extracted in Central America from the seeds, pods and bark. 8,410