Euphorbia resinifera information


Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Euphorbia resinifera?

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

 

Euphorbia resinifera basic info
Scientific Name: Euphorbia resinifera O. Berg.
Family: Euphorbiaceae.
Genus: Euphorbia.
Common names in English: resin spurge.
For common names of Euphorbia resinifera in different languages – See link
Description: Euphorbia resinifera is a shrub, native to Morocco. Also known as Resin spurge. It contains a high concentration of the toxin resiniferatoxin which is being used as a starting point in the development of a novel class of analgesics. – for more info about Euphorbia resinifera See link

 

Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Euphorbia resinifera
*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

 

Euphorbia resinifera in other websites
Euphorbia resinifera 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 Euphorbia resinifera – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Euphorbia resinifera – See link.