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Read on to find out how hibiscus can help with weight loss and cancer, and how it can also help relieve conditions that include:

• Upset stomach
• High blood pressure
• Bacterial infections
• Fever

Hibiscus flowers come in many colors. They can be red, yellow, white, or peach-colored, and can be as big as 6 inches wide. The most popular variety is Hibiscus sabdariffa. The red flowers of this variety are most commonly cultivated for medical purposes, and are available as dietary supplements.

Hibiscus tea, also called sour tea because of its tart taste, is made from a mixture of dried hibiscus flowers, leaves, and dark red calyces (the cup-shaped centers of the flowers). After the flower finishes blooming, the petals fall off and the calyces turn into pods. These hold the plant’s seeds. Calyces are often the main ingredients in herbal drinks containing hibiscus.

Hibiscus has been used by different cultures as a remedy for several conditions. Egyptians used hibiscus tea to lower body temperature, treat heart and nerve diseases, and as a diuretic to increase urine production.

In Africa, tea was used to treat constipation, cancer, liver disease, and cold symptoms. Pulp made from the leaves was applied to the skin to heal wounds.

In Iran, drinking sour tea is still a common treatment for high blood pressure.

Hibiscus plants are known for their large, colorful flowers. These blossoms can make a decorative addition to a home or garden, but they also have medicinal uses. The flowers and leaves can be made into teas and liquid extracts that can help treat a variety of conditions.

Read on to find out how hibiscus can help with weight loss and cancer, and how it can also help relieve conditions that include:

• Tranquilizer used in Nervous disorderss, Mental aberration
• The leaves contain flavones, api-genin and luteolin, also anthocyanins. 
• Leaves cause severe irritation in mouth. Cooked leaves are a source of dietary

• Diuretic,Juice of the bark is given to women after chidbirth
• Lupeol not only prevented the formation of vesical calculi, but also reduced the size of the performed stones in the kidney

• Plant—cooling, febrifuge, diuretic. Poultice used as maturant for boils 
• Leaves—an infusion is given to women after delivery
• Antibacterial activity

• Gum-resin—anti-septic, anti-inflammatory, anti-atherosclerotic, emmenagogue, analgesic, sedative, hypotensive. Also used in obesity, diarrhoea, dysentery, piles, urinary disorders, scrofulous affections. Oil—used topically in chronic ulcers, ringworm.
• Anti-inflammatory activity, Anti-fungal, Hypoglycaemic

• Seed—astringent, nervine tonic, local stimulant. 
• Hair on fruit—vermifuge, mild vesicant. 
• Leaf—applied to ulcers. 
• Pod— anthelmintic. 
• Root and fruit—spasmolytic, hypoglycaemic.

• Flower bud—antidysenteric. 
• Flowers—astringent, haemostatic, anti-inflammatory, stomachic. 
• Essential oil from stamens—antibacterial, antifungal.

• It is a bitter bronchodilator, respiratory stimulant, hypotensive, cardiac depressant, uterotonic and abortifacient. 
• It is used in bronchial, asthmatic and pulmonary affections
• Expectorant

• Exhibit adaptogenic & immunostimulatory activities
• Demulcent, febrifuge, dysentry
• Juice of the plant- invigorating, spermatopoietic, spermatorrhoea, nervine tonic, Polyuria, dysurai, cystitis, hematurai

• Extract of leaves is also active against E.coli
• Root-Carminative,expectorant, used for colic, dysuria, cough and cattarrhal affections. 
• A decoction is prescribed in difficult parturition

• Promising results in two cancer test systems-KB cell and sarcoma 180 in mice
• Berries and flowers- a decoction is used for cough and chronic bronchitis.Exhibit antimitotic, antitumour, antibacterial and antifungal activities

• Leaves—anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, chloretic, diuretic
• Kernel—astringent, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal, anthelmintic, antispasmodic, antiscorbutic
• Stem bark—astringent

• Bark—astringent, antidiarrhoeal. 
• Flower buds and flowers, fried in purified butter, are given to patients suffering from dysentery. 
• Extract of stems are used internally and externally for fractured bones. 
• Plant is used in goitre. 
• It exhibited antithyroid-like activity in experimental animals.
• Astringent, Antidiarrhoeal & Antithyroid-like activity.

• Leaves—taken internally to prevent skin diseases; applied against eczema and ringworm; pounded and applied on cuts, act like tincture of iodine. Seeds, soaked in water, are taken for spermatorrhoea. A paste made of equal parts of leaves and seeds is given for jaundice. Pods are used in dysentery.
• The seed is  used in paralysis and hemiplegia as a supporting drug, hepatoprotective activity,  antioxidant activity.
• Mature leaves possess purgative properties also used as an antiperiodic and anthelmintic.

• Astringent, Purgative, Depurative
• Anthelmintic, Antivermin, Maggoticide, Antifungal.

• Astringent, demulcent, Mild sedative, spasmolytic, antiseptic, antimicrobial
• Used in the form of an infusion internally for chronic diarrhoea,as a douche of leucorrhoea & vaginitis.

• Root and bark—used in amoebic dysentery.
• Bark—astringent, anthelmintic, amoebicidal,diuretic.
• Seed—antibilious

• Intestinal flora normalizer, stimulates digestive processes
• Piles 
• Inflammatory diseases of ano-rectum
• Treating cancers of the uterus

• Plant parts used in dyspepsia, stomachache, colic, cholera, dysentery, postnatal fever, during convalscence from measles. 
• Root and bark—bitter tonic, usedin debility and nervous disorders.
• Hepatoprotective activity. 
• Anthelmintic activity and antidiabetic activity