Crotalaria juncea information


Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Crotalaria juncea?

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Here is some basic information about Crotalaria juncea and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Crotalaria juncea.

 

Crotalaria juncea basic info
Scientific Name: Crotalaria juncea L..
Family: Leguminosae.
Genus: Crotalaria.
Common names in English: Madras-hemp, sann-hemp, sunn crotalaria, sunn-hemp.
For common names of Crotalaria juncea in different languages – See link
Description: Crotalaria juncea, is a tropical Asian plant generally considered to have originated in India. Also known as brown hemp, Indian hemp, Madras hemp, or sunn hemp. – for more info about Crotalaria juncea See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Crotalaria juncea
*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

 

Crotalaria juncea in other websites
Crotalaria juncea 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 Crotalaria juncea – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Crotalaria juncea – See link.