Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Excoecaria cochinchinensis?
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Here is some basic information about Excoecaria cochinchinensis and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Excoecaria cochinchinensis.
Excoecaria cochinchinensis basic info
Scientific Name: Excoecaria cochinchinensis Lour..
Family: Euphorbiaceae.
Genus: Excoecaria.
Description: Excoecaria cochinchinensis is a species of plant in the genus Excoecaria, native to Southeast Asia and China. Also know as “Chinese croton”, “Blindness tree”, “Buta Buta”, “Jungle Fire plant”. The plant has been used in herbal medicine to treat gastric ulcers. Though the plant is considered poisonous, it has beneficial uses as an antiparasitic, antipruritic, and haemostatic treatment. – for more info about Excoecaria cochinchinensis See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Excoecaria cochinchinensis
*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
Excoecaria cochinchinensis in other websites
Excoecaria cochinchinensis 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 Excoecaria cochinchinensis – See link.
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