Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Erythrophleum suaveolens?
If you know websites containing any information about Erythrophleum suaveolens please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Erythrophleum suaveolens and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Erythrophleum suaveolens.
Erythrophleum suaveolens basic info
Scientific Name: Erythrophleum suaveolens (Guill. & Perr.) Brenan.
Family: Leguminosae.
Genus: Erythrophleum.
Common names in English: ordealtree, red-water-tree, sasswoodtree, sassy-bark-tree, sassybark.
Description: Erythrophleum suaveolens is a species of plants that can be found in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The bark of the tree has been used in Liberia to make a toxic concoction used for a form of trial by ordeal called “sassywood”. – for more info about Erythrophleum suaveolens See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Erythrophleum suaveolens
- Ache(Head)
- Anodyne
- Astringent
- Bite(Snake)
- Cardiotonic
- Cathartic
- Chest
- Chickenpox
- Colic
- Convulsant
- Dropsy
- Dysentery
- Emetic
- Eye
- Fatality
- Filariasis
- Gangrene
- Ordeal
- Poison
- Purgative
- Rheumatism
- Skin
- Snuff
- Sore
- Sternutatory
- Swelling
- Syncope
- Vermifuge
- 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
Erythrophleum suaveolens in other websites
Erythrophleum suaveolens 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 Erythrophleum suaveolens – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Erythrophleum suaveolens – See link.