Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Cupressus sempervirens?
If you know websites containing any information about Cupressus sempervirens please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Cupressus sempervirens and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Cupressus sempervirens.
Cupressus sempervirens basic info
Scientific Name: Cupressus sempervirens L..
Family: Cupressaceae.
Genus: Cupressus.
Common names in English: Mediterranean cypress.
For common names of Cupressus sempervirens in different languages – See link
Description: Cupressus sempervirens, the Mediterranean cypress is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region, in northeast Libya, southern Albania, southern coastal Croatia (Dalmatia), southeast Greece (Crete, Rhodes), southern Turkey, Cyprus, northern Egypt, western Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Malta, Italy, western Jordan, and also a disjunct population in Iran. Mediterranean Cypress has been widely cultivated as an ornamental tree. In cosmetics it is used as astringent, firming, anti-seborrheic, anti-dandruff, anti-aging and as fragance. – for more info about Cupressus sempervirens See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Cupressus sempervirens
- Antiseptic
- Astringent
- Cough
- Diabetes
- Diuretic
- Expectorant
- Flu
- Kidney
- Metrorrhagia
- Myofibroma
- Pectoral
- Pertussis
- Piles
- Polyp(Nose)
- Preventitive(Abortifacient)
- Prolapse(Anus)
- Prolapse(Uterus)
- Repellant(Insect)
- Rheumatism
- Sclerosis(Uterus)
- Soap
- Styptic
- Sudorific
- Vasoconstrictor
- Vermifuge
- 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
Cupressus sempervirens in other websites
Cupressus sempervirens 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 Cupressus sempervirens – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Cupressus sempervirens – See link.