Amaranthus hybridus information


Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Amaranthus hybridus?

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Answer

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

 

Amaranthus hybridus basic info
Scientific Name: Amaranthus hybridus L..
Family: Amaranthaceae.
Genus: Amaranthus.
Common names in English: green pigweed, hybrid amaranth, slim amaranth, smooth amaranth, smooth pigweed, spleen amaranth, wild cabbage.
For common names of Amaranthus hybridus in different languages – See link
Description: Amaranthus hybridus, commonly called smooth amaranth, smooth pigweed, red amaranth, green amaranth or slim amaranth, is a species of annual flowering plant. It is a weedy species found now over much of North America and introduced into Europe and Eurasia. – for more info about Amaranthus hybridus See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Amaranthus hybridus
*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

 

Amaranthus hybridus in other websites
Amaranthus hybridus 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 Amaranthus hybridus – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Amaranthus hybridus – See link.

 


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