Genista tinctoria information


Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Genista tinctoria?

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

 

Genista tinctoria basic info
Scientific Name: Genista tinctoria L..
Family: Leguminosae.
Genus: Genista.
Common names in English: dyer’s greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen.
Description: Genista tinctoria is a species of flowering plant, native to meadows and pastures in Europe and Turkey. It has been used in popular medicine and herbalism for various complaints, including skin diseases, even in modern times. – for more info about Genista tinctoria See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Genista tinctoria
*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

 

Genista tinctoria in other websites
Genista tinctoria 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 Genista tinctoria – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Genista tinctoria – See link.