Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Aristolochia serpentaria?
If you know websites containing any information about Aristolochia serpentaria please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Aristolochia serpentaria and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Aristolochia serpentaria.
Aristolochia serpentaria basic info
Scientific Name: Aristolochia serpentaria L..
Family: Aristolochiace.
Genus: Aristolochia.
Common names in English: snakeroot, Virginia serpentary, Virginia snakeroot.
Description: Aristolochia serpentaria is a species of perennial flowering plant in the Aristolochiaceae (birthwort) family. The species is commonly known as Virginia snakeroot and is native to eastern North America, from Connecticut to southern Michigan and south to Texas and Florida. – for more info about Aristolochia serpentaria See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Aristolochia serpentaria
- Alterative
- Bite(Snake)
- Cardiotonic
- Diaphoretic
- Diuretic
- Emmenagogue
- Fever
- Gastrotonic
- Leukemia
- Malaria
- Medicine
- Pain
- Pneumonia
- Poultice
- Preventitive(Poison)
- Sedative
- Smallpox
- Sore
- Stimulant
- Stomach
- Sudorific
- Tonic
- Typhus
- Wound
*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 serpentaria in other websites
Aristolochia serpentaria 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 serpentaria – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Aristolochia serpentaria – See link.