Habitat: Kashmir; commonly grown in gardens, especially on the hills.
English: Carnation, Clove Pink.
Action: Flowers—diaphoretic, alexiteric, cardiac tonic. whole plant—vermifuge. Juice of plant antiviral.
Leaves contain glucoproteins.A related species, Dicentra anatoli- cus Boiss, found in the Western Himalayas, is used as an antiperiodic in intermittent fevers.... dianthus carophyllus
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