Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Gossypium arboreum?
If you know websites containing any information about Gossypium arboreum please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Gossypium arboreum and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Gossypium arboreum.
Gossypium arboreum basic info
Scientific Name: Gossypium arboreum L..
Family: Malvaceae.
Genus: Gossypium.
For common names of Gossypium arboreum in different languages – See link
Description: Gossypium arboreum is a shrub, native to India, Pakistan and other tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. – for more info about Gossypium arboreum See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Gossypium arboreum
- Abortifacient
- Ache(Ear)
- Ache(Head)
- Bite(Snake)
- Brain
- Bruise
- Convulsion
- Demulcent
- Dysentery
- Emmenagogue
- Emollient
- Expectorant
- Fibroma(Uterus)
- Hemostat
- Labor
- Lactagogue
- Laxative
- Madness
- Malaria
- Nervine
- Pharyngitis
- Scorpion
- Sore
- Swelling
- Tumor
- Vasoconstrictor
*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
Gossypium arboreum in other websites
Gossypium arboreum 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 Gossypium arboreum – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Gossypium arboreum – See link.