Aristolochia contorta information


Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Aristolochia contorta?

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

 

Aristolochia contorta basic info
Scientific Name: Aristolochia contorta Bunge.
Family: Aristolochiace.
Genus: Aristolochia.
Description: Aristolochia contorta, also known as Birthwort, is a climbing perennial shrub. It is a perennial herbaceous plant with stout elongated rhizomes that grows on the edges of the mountains, fields or forests in Korea, Japan, and eastern China. – for more info about Aristolochia contorta See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Aristolochia contorta
*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

 

Aristolochia contorta in other websites
Aristolochia contorta 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 Aristolochia contorta – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Aristolochia contorta – See link.

 


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