Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Avena fatua?
If you know websites containing any information about Avena fatua please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Avena fatua and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Avena fatua.
Avena fatua basic info
Scientific Name: Avena fatua L..
Family: Poaceae.
Genus: Avena.
Common names in English: wild oat.
For common names of Avena fatua in different languages – See link
Description: Avena fatua is a species of grass in the oat genus. It is known as the common wild oat. This oat is native to Eurasia but it has been introduced to most of the other temperate regions of the world. It is naturalized in some areas and considered a noxious weed in others. – for more info about Avena fatua See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Avena fatua
- Cancer
- Parturition
- Placenta
- Tumor(Parotid)
- Uterotonic
*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
Avena fatua in other websites
Avena fatua 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 Avena fatua – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Avena fatua – See link.