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Plant Description:
Name:chamberbitter
Scientific Name:Phyllanthus urinaria
Family:euphorbiaceae
Type:Broadleaf
Lifecycle:Summer Annual
Habit:Chamberbitter is a warm season annual weed plant It is a small tropical annual herb growing up to 2 feet tall.
Leaves:Leaves of Chamberbitter are alternate. They have stipules, ovate-lanceolate, and the base is conspicuously auriculate. The petioles are very short and the blades are papery, oblong or oblong-obovate or nearly linear.
Leaf Arrangement:Alternate
Characteristics: 
	Chamberbitter is used for curing blennorrhagia, diabetes, dysentery, flu, tumors, jaundice, vaginitis, against headache, fever, conjungtivitis, 
	menstrual disorders and dyspepsia. It is used against colic, as an effective remedy to eliminate gall and kidney stones. It is also used for urinary tract infection, bladder inflammation and for other kidney and liver problems.
Flower Seed Head:Chamberbitter has greenish white flowers. A very small wart-like fruit, greenish-red, is underneath every pair of the feathered leaves.
Seed Fruit:Capsules globose, are 2 to 2.5 mm across. They are with reddish blotches and scurfy-tuberculate, fruiting sepals, styles and columella persistent.
Where Found:Chamberbitter is found in most of the US.

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