Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Bowiea volubilis?
If you know websites containing any information about Bowiea volubilis please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Bowiea volubilis and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Bowiea volubilis.
Bowiea volubilis basic info
Scientific Name: Bowiea volubilis Harv. ex Hook. f..
Family: Asparagaceae.
Genus: Bowiea.
Common names in English: climbing-potato, zulu-potato.
Description: Bowiea is a bulbous genus of perennial, succulent plants which thrive in dry and desert regions of eastern and southern Africa. It is native to a region stretching from Kenya to Cape Province. – for more info about Bowiea volubilis See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Bowiea volubilis
- Cardiotonic
- Dropsy
- Fatality
- Poison
- Purgative
- Sterility
*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
Bowiea volubilis in other websites
Bowiea volubilis 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 Bowiea volubilis – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Bowiea volubilis – See link.