Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Convolvulus arvensis?
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Here is some basic information about Convolvulus arvensis and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Convolvulus arvensis.
Convolvulus arvensis basic info
Scientific Name: Convolvulus arvensis L..
Family: Convolvulaceae.
Genus: Convolvulus.
Common names in English: common bindweed, field bindweed, lesser bindweed, small bindweed, white convolvulus, wild morning-glory.
Description: Convolvulus arvensis (field bindweed) is a species of bindweed in the morning glory family (Convolvulaceae), native to Europe and Asia. Bindweed contains several alkaloids, including pseudotropine, and lesser amounts of tropine, tropinone, and meso-cuscohygrine. – for more info about Convolvulus arvensis See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Convolvulus arvensis
- Cancer
- Cathartic
- Cholagogue
- Corn
- Fever
- Laxative
- Purgative
- 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
Convolvulus arvensis in other websites
Convolvulus arvensis 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 Convolvulus arvensis – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Convolvulus arvensis – See link.