Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica?

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

 

Coffea arabica basic info

Scientific Name: Coffea arabica L..

Family: Rubiaceae.

Genus: Coffea.

Common names in English: arabica coffee, coffee, coffeetree.

For common names of Coffea arabica in different languages - See link

Description: Coffea arabica is a species of Coffea originally indigenous to the forests of the southwestern highlands of Ethiopia. It is also known as the "coffee shrub of Arabia", "mountain coffee", or "arabica coffee". C. arabica is believed to be the first species of coffee to be cultivated. - for more info about Coffea arabica See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Coffea arabica

• Ache(Head)
• Analgesic
• Anaphrodisiac
• Anorexic
• Antidote
• Antidote(Atropine)
• Antidote(Narcotic)
• Antidote(Opium)
• Asthma
• CNS stimulant
• Cardiotonic
• Coffee
• Counterirritant
• Diuretic
• Fever
• Flu
• Hypnotic
• Intellect
• Jaundice
• Kidney
• Malaria
• Nausea
• Nervine
• Poison
• Scorpion
• Sore
• Stimulant
• Vertigo

*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

 

Coffea arabica in other websites

Coffea arabica 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 Coffea arabica - See link.

See if there is something in Youtube on the term Coffea arabica - See link.