Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Adiantum pedatum?
If you know websites containing any information about Adiantum pedatum please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Adiantum pedatum and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Adiantum pedatum.
Adiantum pedatum basic info
Scientific Name: Adiantum pedatum L..
Family: Pteridaceae.
Genus: Adiantum.
Common names in English: northern maidenhair, pointerweed.
For common names of Adiantum pedatum in different languages – See link
Description: Adiantum pedatum (northern maidenhair fern, five-fingered fern) is a species of fern in the family Pteridaceae, native to moist forests in eastern North America. Like other ferns in the genus, the name maidenhair refers to the slender, shining black stipes. – for more info about Adiantum pedatum See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Adiantum pedatum
- Catarrh
- Cold
- Cough
- Demulcent
- Emollient
- Expectorant
- Hoarseness
- Medicine
- Pectoral
- Respiratory
- Stimulant
- Tonic
*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
Adiantum pedatum in other websites
Adiantum pedatum 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 Adiantum pedatum – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Adiantum pedatum – See link.