Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Anthemis cotula?
If you know websites containing any information about Anthemis cotula please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Anthemis cotula and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Anthemis cotula.
Anthemis cotula basic info
Scientific Name: Anthemis cotula L..
Family: Compositae.
Genus: Anthemis.
Common names in English: foetid chamomile, mayweed, mayweed chamomile, stinking chamomile, stinking mayweed, wild chamomile.
For common names of Anthemis cotula in different languages – See link
Description: Anthemis cotula, also known as stinking chamomile, is a flowering annual plant with a noticeable and strong odor. The odor is often considered unpleasant, and it is from this that it gains the common epithet “stinking”. It is initially native to Europe and North Africa. It has successfully migrated to North America, Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand where it can be found growing on waste ground, alongside roads, and in fields. – for more info about Anthemis cotula See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Anthemis cotula
- Amenorrhea
- Cancer
- Carminative
- Diarrhea
- Dyspepsia
- Emetic
- Emmenagogue
- Fever
- Insecticide
- Sore
- Spasm
- Sting(Bee)
- Tonic
- Unguent
- Vermifuge
- 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
Anthemis cotula in other websites
Anthemis cotula 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 Anthemis cotula – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Anthemis cotula – See link.