Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
1,274 Spike Lavender Extract (oil) Medicinal Spike lavender has similar medicinal properties to common lavender (L. angustifolia). It yields more essential oil than that species but is of inferior quality. They can be used in all the ways that common lavender is used, externally to treat wounds, burns, insect stings etc and internally to treat digestive disorders. The flowering stems, and the essential oil obtained from them, is abortifacient, antibacterial, antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative and emmenagogue. 8,420
1,275 Spike Lavender Extract (oil) Industrial An essential oil is obtained from the flowers which used in soap making, perfumery, food flavouring, veterinary medicines, porcelain painting etc. he flowering stems, once the flowers have been removed for use in pot-pourri etc, can be tied in small bundles and burnt as incense sticks. 8,420
1,276 Napier Grass Leaf Food The young shoots or leaves are added to soup. 8,422
1,277 Napier Grass Stem Food The stalks are reduced to ash and then the soluble and insoluble parts separated out with water to produce vegetable salt. 8,422
1,278 Napier Grass Whole Feed (Forage/Fodder) Fodder: bank, pasture. Extremely palatable to all classes of stock provided young and leafy. 8,422
1,279 Napier Grass Whole Environmental Napier grasses improve soil fertility, and protect arid land from soil erosion. 8,422
1,280 True Lavender Extract (oil) Industrial An essential oil from the flowers is used as a food flavouring. The essential oil that is obtained from the flowers is exquisitely scented and has a very wide range of applications, both in the home and commercially. It is commonly used in soap making, in making high quality perfumes (it is also used in 'Eau de Cologne'), it is also used as a detergent and cleaning agent, a food flavouring etc. 8,423
1,281 Okra Fruit Food Immature fruit - cooked on their own or added to soups etc. They can be used fresh or dried. 8,424
1,282 True Lavender Extract (oil) Medicinal The essential oil is much more gentle in its action than most other essential oils and can be safely applied direct to the skin as an antiseptic to help heal wounds, burns etc. An essential oil obtained from the flowers is antihalitosis, powerfully antiseptic, antispasmodic, aromatic, carminative, cholagogue, diuretic, nervine, sedative, stimulant, stomachic and tonic. It is very useful in the treatment of burns, sunburn, scalds, bites, vaginal discharge, anal fissure etc, where it also soothes the affected part of the body and can prevent the formation of permanent scar tissue. 8,423
1,283 True Lavender Flower Beverages The fresh or dried flowers are used as a tea. 8,423
1,284 Okra Seed Food Seed - cooked or ground into a meal and used in making bread or made into 'tofu' or 'tempeh'. 8,424
1,285 Okra Leaf Food The leaves, flower buds, flowers and calyces can be eaten cooked as greens. 8,424
1,286 Okra Root Medicinal The roots are very rich in mucilage, having a strongly demulcent action. This mucilage can be used as a plasma replacement. An infusion of the roots is used in the treatment of syphilis. The juice of the roots is used externally in Nepal to treat cuts, wounds and boils. 8,424
1,287 Okra Leaf Medicinal The leaves furnish an emollient poultice. They are also used as an emollient, sudorific or antiscorbutic and to treat dysuria. 8,424
1,288 Okra Fruit Medicinal A decoction of the immature fruits is demulcent, diuretic and emollient. It is used in the treatment of catarrhal infections, ardor urinae, dysuria and gonorrhoea. The fruit is crushed with the young leaves and then used to wash the hair and to treat dandruff. 8,424
1,289 Okra Flower Medicinal An infusion of the flowers is used to treat phlegm in the mucous membranes of the chest. 8,424
1,290 Okra Seed Medicinal The seeds are antispasmodic, cordial and stimulant. An infusion of the roasted seeds has sudorific properties. 8,424
1,291 Okra Stem Fibre A fibre obtained from the stems is used as a substitute for jute. Strong and silky. It is also used in making paper and textiles. 8,424
1,292 Pigeon Pea Seed Food Ripe seeds are eaten fried or boiled, often after being soaked first, or boiled into porridge. 8,426
1,293 Pigeon Pea Forage (fresh) Feed (Forage/Fodder) Vegetative parts are excellent fodder and seeds are also used as animal feed. 8,426