Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Gossypium hirsutum?
If you know websites containing any information about Gossypium hirsutum please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Gossypium hirsutum and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Gossypium hirsutum.
Gossypium hirsutum basic info
Scientific Name: Gossypium hirsutum L..
Family: Malvaceae.
Genus: Gossypium.
Common names in English: American upland cotton, Bourbon cotton, cotton, upland cotton.
For common names of Gossypium hirsutum in different languages – See link
Description: Gossypium hirsutum is the most widely planted species of cotton in the United States. It is also known as upland cotton or Mexican cotton, native to Mexico, the West Indies, northern South America, Central America and possibly tropical Florida. – for more info about Gossypium hirsutum See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Gossypium hirsutum
- Ache(Ear)
- Ache(Stomach)
- Analgesic
- Bacteriostat
- Chest-Cold
- Cold
- Cough
- Emmenagogue
- Fever
- Flu
- Lactogogue
- Liniment
- Oxytoxic
- Soap
- Tuberculosis
*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 hirsutum in other websites
Gossypium hirsutum 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 hirsutum – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Gossypium hirsutum – See link.