Galium verum information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant

Question



Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Galium verum?

If you know websites containing any information about Galium verum please link to them.

Answer 1



Here is some basic information about Galium verum and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Galium verum.

 

Galium verum basic info

Scientific Name: Galium verum L..

Family: Rubiaceae.

Genus: Galium.

Common names in English: yellow bedstraw.

Description: Galium verum is a herbaceous perennial plant, widespread across most of Europe, North Africa, and temperate Asia from Palestine and Turkey to Japan and Kamchatka. It is naturalized in Tasmania, New Zealand, Canada, and the northern half of the United States. - for more info about Galium verum See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Galium verum

• Alterative
• Aperient
• Aphrodisiac
• Astringent
• Calmative
• Cancer
• Depurative
• Diuretic
• Epilepsy
• Gravel
• Hemostat
• Hysteria
• Pectoral
• Purgative
• Rennet
• Spasm
• Stone
• Sudorific
• Tonic
• Tumor(Breast)
• Tumor(Ganglia)
• Urethra
• Urogenital

*The information in this list is based on the ethnobotanical data in Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases.

Dr. Duke does not recommend using this information for self diagnosis or self medication. - See link

 

Galium verum in other websites

Galium verum common names, economics importance, distributional range and more in the USDA GRIN website - See link.

Search PubMed (US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health) for academic researches with the search term Galium verum - See link.

See if there is something in Youtube on the term Galium verum - See link.