Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Desmodium adscendens?
If you know websites containing any information about Desmodium adscendens please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Desmodium adscendens and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Desmodium adscendens.
Desmodium adscendens basic info
Scientific Name: Desmodium adscendens (Sw.) DC..
Family: Leguminosae.
Genus: Desmodium.
Common names in English: tick trefoil, tick-clover.
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Desmodium adscendens
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Colic
- Convulsion
- Cough
- Depurative
- Laxative
- Marasmus
- Oliguria
- Ringworm
- Sore
- Tuberculosis
- Venereal
- Wound
*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
Desmodium adscendens in other websites
Desmodium adscendens 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 Desmodium adscendens – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Desmodium adscendens – See link.