Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Annona cherimola?
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Answer
Here is some basic information about Annona cherimola and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Annona cherimola.
Annona cherimola basic info
Scientific Name: Annona cherimola Mill..
Family: Annonaceae.
Genus: Annona.
Common names in English: custard-apple.
For common names of Annona cherimola in different languages – See link
Description: Annona cherimola, originally called Chirimuya by the Inca people who lived where it was growing in the Andes of South America, is an edible fruit-bearing species of the genus Annona from the family Annonaceae. It is now widely cultivated mostly for its sweet fruits that share the name Custard-apple with others in its family. Other English common names include cherimoya, chirimoyo, momona, kelemoio. – for more info about Annona cherimola See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Annona cherimola
- Cathartic
- Emetic
- Insecticide
- Liqueur
- Pediculicide
- Piscicide
*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
Annona cherimola in other websites
Annona cherimola 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 Annona cherimola – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Annona cherimola – See link.