Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Anchusa officinalis?
If you know websites containing any information about Anchusa officinalis please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Anchusa officinalis and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Anchusa officinalis.
Anchusa officinalis basic info
Scientific Name: Anchusa officinalis L..
Family: Boraginaceae.
Genus: Anchusa.
Common names in English: bugloss, common bugloss, oxtongue.
For common names of Anchusa officinalis in different languages – See link
Description: Anchusa officinalis, common bugloss or alkanet, is a plant species in the genus Anchusa. – for more info about Anchusa officinalis See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Anchusa officinalis
- Astringent
- Cancer
- Diuretic
- Emollient
- Expectorant
- Sedative
- Tumor
- 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
Anchusa officinalis in other websites
Anchusa officinalis 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 Anchusa officinalis – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Anchusa officinalis – See link.