Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Bidens pilosa?
If you know websites containing any information about Bidens pilosa please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Bidens pilosa and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Bidens pilosa.
Bidens pilosa basic info
Scientific Name: Bidens pilosa L..
Family: Compositae.
Genus: Bidens.
Common names in English: black-jack, cobblers’-pegs, hairy beggar-ticks, hairy bidens, Spanish-needles.
Description: Bidens pilosa is a species of flowering plant native to the Americas but it is known widely as an introduced species of other regions, including Eurasia, Africa, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. – for more info about Bidens pilosa See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Bidens pilosa
- Ache(Tooth)
- Antidote
- Boil
- Conjunctivitis
- Cough
- Aftosa
- Allergy
- Amygdalitis
- Angina
- Bite(Snake)
- Bronchitis
- Cancer
- Carminative
- Catarrh
- Cold
- Colic
- Diabetes
- Diarrhea
- Diuretic
- Dysentery
- Ear
- Emmenagogue
- Eye
- Fever
- Food-Poison
- Heat rash
- Inflammation
- Intestine
- Intoxicant
- Itch
- Lactogogue
- Liqueur
- Liver
- Magic
- Pectoral
- Rheumatism
- Sclerosis(Glands)
- Sialogogue
- Sore
- Stomach
- Stomatitis
- Styptic
- Urticaria
- 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
Bidens pilosa in other websites
Bidens pilosa 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 Bidens pilosa – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Bidens pilosa – See link.