Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Bocconia frutescens?
If you know websites containing any information about Bocconia frutescens please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Bocconia frutescens and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Bocconia frutescens.
Bocconia frutescens basic info
Scientific Name: Bocconia frutescens L..
Family: Papaveraceae.
Genus: Bocconia.
Common names in English: tree celandine.
Description: Bocconia frutescens, (common names English: plume poppy, tree poppy, tree celandine, parrotweed, sea oxeye daisy,John Crow bush. Spanish: gordolobo, llorasangre, tabaquillo, palo amarillo, palo de toro and pan cimarrֳ³n. Franch: bois codine.) is a species of flowering plant native to the Americas, including Mexico, parts of Central and South America, and the West Indies. – for more info about Bocconia frutescens See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Bocconia frutescens
- Ache(Tooth)
- Anesthetic
- Aposteme
- Bronchitis
- Cancer
- Cataplasm
- Caustic
- Chilblain
- Collyrium
- Dropsy
- Emetic
- Eruption
- Itch
- Jaundice
- Mycosis
- Ophthalmia
- Parasiticide
- Pediculicide
- Poison
- Purgative
- Repellant(Insect)
- Rubefacient
- Sedative
- Skin
- Sore
- Tumor
- Ulcer
- Vermifuge
- Wart
- 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
Bocconia frutescens in other websites
Bocconia frutescens 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 Bocconia frutescens – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Bocconia frutescens – See link.