Araujia sericifera information


Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Araujia sericifera?

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

 

Araujia sericifera basic info
Scientific Name: Araujia sericifera Brot..
Family: Apocynaceae.
Genus: Araujia.
Common names in English: Cape-dandelion, cruelplant, moth-catcher, mothplant, mothvine, Peruvian-creeper, white mothplant, white mothvine.
Description: Araujia sericifera is a perennial ornamental plant in the genus Araujia belonging to Apocynaceae family. Its common names include Moth Plant, White Bladderflower, Common Moth Vine and Cruel Vine. – for more info about Araujia sericifera See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Araujia sericifera
*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

 

Araujia sericifera in other websites
Araujia sericifera 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 Araujia sericifera – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Araujia sericifera – See link.