Helleborus viridis information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant

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Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Helleborus viridis?

If you know websites containing any information about Helleborus viridis please link to them.

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

 

Helleborus viridis basic info

Scientific Name: Helleborus viridis L..

Family: Ranunculaceae.

Genus: Helleborus.

Description: Helleborus viridis is a perennial flowering plant, native to Central and Western Europe, including England. All parts of the plant are poisonous and consumption of any part of the plant can lead to severe vomiting and seizures. Its purgative properties meant that it was traditionally used as a folk remedy to treat worms in children and topically to treat lice. - for more info about Helleborus viridis See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Helleborus viridis

• Cancer
• Cardiac
• Diuretic
• Emmenagogue
• Nervine
• Poison
• Sternutatory

*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

 

Helleborus viridis in other websites

Helleborus viridis 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 Helleborus viridis - See link.

See if there is something in Youtube on the term Helleborus viridis - See link.