Miguel Braganza could elucidate better the small plant which grows widely in moist places around our houses in Goa. It can be identified by a lining of small balls on the underbelly of its tamarind-like leaves.
While I was at St. Britto's in 1970s, the Malayalee Jesuit of Goa Province, Fr. Pallithanam, well-known botanist and one of the founding fathers of St. Xavier's College (Mapusa), indicated to me once this plant and said that it was a powerful medicine to cure jaundice at any stage by biting and chewing a handful of leaves every day.
