Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Asarum europaeum?
If you know websites containing any information about Asarum europaeum please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Asarum europaeum and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Asarum europaeum.
Asarum europaeum basic info
Scientific Name: Asarum europaeum L..
Family: Aristolochiace.
Genus: Asarum.
For common names of Asarum europaeum in different languages – See link
Description: Asarum europaeum, commonly known as asarabacca, European wild ginger, hazelwort, and wild spikenard, is a species of wild ginger (unrelated to the rhizome spice ginger) with single axillary dull purple flowers, lying on the ground. It is widespread across Europe, ranging from southern Finland and northern Russia south to southern France, Italy and the Republic of Macedonia. – for more info about Asarum europaeum See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Asarum europaeum
- Diaphoretic
- Diuretic
- Emetic
- Emmenagogue
- Fever
- Poison
- Purgative
- Sternutatory
- Stimulant
- Sudorific
- Tumor
*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
Asarum europaeum in other websites
Asarum europaeum 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 Asarum europaeum – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Asarum europaeum – See link.