Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Canella winterana?
If you know websites containing any information about Canella winterana please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Canella winterana and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Canella winterana.
Canella winterana basic info
Scientific Name: Canella winterana (L.) Gaertn..
Family: Canellaceae.
Genus: Canella.
Common names in English: canella, wild cinnamon.
Description: Canella is a monospecific genus containing the species Canella winterana, a tree native to the Caribbean from the Florida Keys to Barbados. Its bark is used as a spice similar to cinnamon, giving rise to the common names “cinnamon bark”, “wild cinnamon”, and “white cinnamon”. – for more info about Canella winterana See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Canella winterana
- Ache(Head)
- Digestive
- Fumitory
- Piscicide
- Rheumatism
- Sclerosis(Liver)
- Scurvy
- Stimulant
- Stomachic
- Tonic
*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
Canella winterana in other websites
Canella winterana 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 Canella winterana – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Canella winterana – See link.