Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Acanthus mollis?
If you know websites containing any information about Acanthus mollis please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Acanthus mollis and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Acanthus mollis.
Acanthus mollis basic info
Scientific Name: Acanthus mollis L..
Family: Acanthaceae.
Genus: Acanthus.
Common names in English: bear’s-breeches, oak-leaf bear’s-breeches, sea-dock.
For common names of Acanthus mollis in different languages – See link
Description: Acanthus mollis, commonly known as bear’s breeches, – for more info about Acanthus mollis See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Acanthus mollis
- Antidiarrheic
- Astringent
- Depurative
- Emollient
- Expectorant
- Hemostatic
- Nervine
- Sclerosis(Spleen)
- Stimulant
- Stomachic
- Tonic
- Vulnerary
*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
Acanthus mollis in other websites
Acanthus mollis 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 Acanthus mollis – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Acanthus mollis – See link.