Hoslundia opposita 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 Hoslundia opposita?

If you know websites containing any information about Hoslundia opposita please link to them.

Answer 1



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

 

Hoslundia opposita basic info

Scientific Name: Hoslundia opposita Vahl.

Family: Lamiaceae.

Genus: Hoslundia.

Description: Hoslundia is a genus of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family, first described in 1804. It contains only one known species, Hoslundia opposita. It is widespread across much of sub-Saharan Africa including Madagascar. - for more info about Hoslundia opposita See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Hoslundia opposita

• Abdomen
• Anodyne
• Bite(Snake)
• Blennorrhea
• Chest
• Cholagogue
• Cold
• Conjunctivitis
• Cystitis
• Diuretic
• Epilepsy
• Fatality
• Fever
• Gonorrhea
• Herpes
• Herpes zoster
• Hookworms
• Jaundice
• Laxative
• Liver
• Mental
• Purgative
• Shingles
• Skin
• Sore
• Sore(Throat)
• Stomach
• Swelling
• Tea
• Venereal
• Vertigo
• Wound
• Yellow Fever

*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

 

Hoslundia opposita in other websites

Hoslundia opposita 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 Hoslundia opposita - See link.

See if there is something in Youtube on the term Hoslundia opposita - See link.