Heracleum sphondylium 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 Heracleum sphondylium?

If you know websites containing any information about Heracleum sphondylium please link to them.

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

 

Heracleum sphondylium basic info

Scientific Name: Heracleum sphondylium L..

Family: Apiaceae.

Genus: Heracleum.

Common names in English: cow-parsnip, hogweed, meadow-parsnip.

For common names of Heracleum sphondylium in different languages - See link

Description: Heracleum sphondylium is a herbaceous perennial or biennial plant, native to Europe and Asia. Common names hogweed, common hogweed or cow parsnip. - for more info about Heracleum sphondylium See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Heracleum sphondylium

• Callus
• Cancer
• Medicine

*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

 

Heracleum sphondylium in other websites

Heracleum sphondylium 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 Heracleum sphondylium - See link.

See if there is something in Youtube on the term Heracleum sphondylium - See link.