"Used medicinally throughout the world, also in Ayurvedic medicine and in traditional Chinese Medicine. The health potential of this common plant is only just beginning to be recognised in the Western world....eaten as a fresh plant, and is taken orally as an infusion and a tincture. It is also applied externally. (p142, People's plants) The section also mentions anti-cancer, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, hypotensive, antipyretic activities.