Cassia grandis information


Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Cassia grandis?

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Here is some basic information about Cassia grandis and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Cassia grandis.

 

Cassia grandis basic info
Scientific Name: Cassia grandis L. f..
Family: Leguminosae.
Genus: Cassia.
Common names in English: coral shower, horse cassia, pink shower.
For common names of Cassia grandis in different languages – See link
Description: Cassia grandis, one of several species called Pink Shower Tree, and known as Carao in Spanish, is a flowering plant, native to the neotropics. The species is distributed from southern Mֳ©xico, to Venezuela and Ecuador. It grows in forests and open fields at lower elevations, and is known to be planted as an ornamental. – for more info about Cassia grandis See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Cassia grandis
*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

 

Cassia grandis in other websites
Cassia grandis 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 Cassia grandis – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Cassia grandis – See link.