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Cleaver is an edible and medicinal herb used by indigenous people in the world.
Cleaver is an annual plant and can be found in most parts of the world.
It is highly valued for its medicinal uses. It has a long history of use
as an alternative medicine and is still widely used by herbalists.
Cleaver is basically found growing on hedgerows, wood fields, among
cultivated crops and on the waste areas.
It is straggling annual plant with a slender taproot and weak square
stems which clings to other plants with small, curved prickles at the
angles of the stems on the veins and edges of the leaves.
The stems and leaves are covered with little hooked bristles which attach
to passing objects. It is dense which climbs upward often forming matted
masses.
Leaves are narrow and lance shaped which are rough along the margins and
surface.
The flowers are white and tiny 1/16 to 1/8 in diameter and star liked
growing in a stemmed bud rising from the leaf axils.
Cleaver is cultivated in many countries such as Australia, Britain,
china, Europe, France, Iraq, Mexico, Spain, turkey and US.
The flowers of cleavers are greenish white in colour which appear from
May to September.
Aerial plants
Cleavers contains polyphenolic acids, iridoids, anthraquinones, alkanes, flavonoids and tannins.
