Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Ficus pumila?
If you know websites containing any information about Ficus pumila please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Ficus pumila and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Ficus pumila.
Ficus pumila basic info
Scientific Name: Ficus pumila L..
Family: Moraceae.
Genus: Ficus.
Common names in English: creeping fig, creeping rubberplant, figvine.
For common names of Ficus pumila in different languages – See link
Description: Ficus pumila is a species of flowering plant, native to East Asia and naturalized in parts of the southeastern and south-central United States. Also known by the common names: creeping fig or climbing fig. The fruit of Ficus pumila var. awkeotsang is used in cuisine. – for more info about Ficus pumila See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Ficus pumila
- Anodyne
- Cancer
- Carbuncle
- Detoxicant
- Diuretic
- Fever
- Gonorrhea
- Heart
- Hernia
- Lactogogue
- Parasiticide
- Skin
- Spermatorrhea
- Testicle
- Thirst
- Tuberculosis
- Virility
*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
Ficus pumila in other websites
Ficus pumila 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 Ficus pumila – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Ficus pumila – See link.