Chanca Piedra Health Benefits, Properties, and Uses

Chanca Piedra is the Spanish name for the plant, Phyllanthus niruri. A medicinal herb native to tropical coastal regions around the world, Chanca Piedra roots, leaves, fruits and sap are used in herbal medicine.¹

Chanca Piedra Health Uses and Health Benefits

Research has found that constituents in the Chanca Piedra plant have healing and diuretic properties for the urinary tract, kidneys and liver. For this reason, Chanca Piedra is taken for ailments like urinary tract infections, kidney stones, liver inflammation and jaundice. Traditionally, Chanca Piedra has also been used to disinfect wounds and treat skin infections like ringworm and scabies. In Ayurvedic medicine, Chanca Piedra is also used for respiratory ailments like asthma and bronchitis.^1,2,3,4

References

1. https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/CropFactSheets/phyllanthus.html 
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21176271
3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29617079 
4. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2014/834815/