Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heliotropium europaeum?
If you know websites containing any information about Heliotropium europaeum please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Heliotropium europaeum and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Heliotropium europaeum.
Heliotropium europaeum basic info
Scientific Name: Heliotropium europaeum L..
Family: Boraginaceae.
Genus: Heliotropium.
Common names in English: caterpillar-weed, common heliotrope, European heliotrope, European turnsole, heliotrope, hemp-agrimony, Wandarrie-curse, wild heliotrope.
Description: Heliotropium europaeum is an annual herb, native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, but it is widely naturalized elsewhere, such as in Australia and North America. The plant contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids and is poisonous. – for more info about Heliotropium europaeum See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Heliotropium europaeum
- Cancer
- Cholagogue
- Emmenagogue
- Fever
- Poison
- Wart
*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
Heliotropium europaeum in other websites
Heliotropium europaeum 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 Heliotropium europaeum – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Heliotropium europaeum – See link.