Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Ajuga reptans?
If you know websites containing any information about Ajuga reptans please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Ajuga reptans and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Ajuga reptans.
Ajuga reptans basic info
Scientific Name: Ajuga reptans L..
Family: Lamiaceae.
Genus: Ajuga.
Common names in English: blue bugle, bugle, bugleherb, bugleweed, common bugle.
Description: Ajuga reptans, commonly known as bugle, blue bugle, bugleherb, bugleweed, carpetweed, carpet bungleweed, common bugle, is an herbaceous flowering plant native to Europe. It is invasive in parts of North America. Grown as a garden plant it provides useful groundcover. Numerous cultivars have been selected, of which “Caitlin’s Giant” has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. Ajuga reptans is also a component of Purple moor grass and rush pastures, a Biodiversity Action Plan habitat in the United Kingdom. – for more info about Ajuga reptans See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Ajuga reptans
- Astringent
- Cancer
- Carminative
- Deobstruent
- Diuretic
- Fever
- Hemostat
- Jaundice
- Liver
- Lung
- Narcotic
- Rheumatism
- Spleen
- Stomachic
- Styptic
- Tonic
- Vulnerary
*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
Ajuga reptans in other websites
Ajuga reptans 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 Ajuga reptans – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Ajuga reptans – See link.