Plant |
Family | Mahogany family (Meliaceae) |
English |
American muskwood, Cocillana, Cocillana bark |
Latin |
Guarea guidonia (L.) Sleumer, Guarea guara (Jacq.) P.Wilson, Guarea rusbyi (Britton) Rusby, Guarea guidonia, Guarea aublettii A.Juss., Guarea rusbyi BRIT., Guarea trichilioides L., Guarea aubletti Juss. |
Plantparts | Bark, foliage, Roots, Unspecified |
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Ungrouped Diseases & Uses |
Aids digestion, Anti-asthmatic, Anti-edemic, Antihaemorrhagic, Antihemorrhagic, Antihæmorrhagic, Antisyphilitic, aperient, asthma, bad digestion, benificial effect on the digestion, Bleeding, Bleeding Stancher, blood cleanser, blood cleansing, Blood-purifier, catharic, Cathartic, check bleeding, Cleanses the blood, Constipation, Costive, Costiveness, cough, Coughing, Coughs, depurant, Depurative, Digestive, Digestive stimulant, digestive trouble, Digestive weakness, dispepsia, dropsy, Dyschezia, dyspepsia, Dyssynergic defaecation, edema, Emetic, Eupeptic, Expectorant, Expellant of phlegm, Febrile response, fever, feverish condition, Fevers, fluid accumulation, Good for digestion, Gout, haemorrhage, Haemorrhagic conditions, Haemorrhaging, haemostatic, hemorrhage, Hemorrhaging, Hemostat, hemostatic, Hydropsy, Hæmostatic, improves digestion, indigestion, induce vomiting, Infant's trush, inhibit bleeding, laxative, movements of the bowel, Mucolytic agent, oedema, Podagra, Poor digestion, Promotes digestion, Purgative, purify blood, purify the blood, Pyrexia, Stanches blood, staunches bleeding, stimulates digestion, Stiptic, Stop bleeding, stops bleeding, styptic, syphilis, thrush, to cleanse the blood, trush, Used in the treatment of cough, vomitive, Warming digestive |
Women's diseases |
Abortifacient, Abortion, Abortive, Emmenagogue, induce abortion, menstrual complaints, menstrual disorder, menstrual disorders, stimulates menstruation |
Other uses |
Bed bugs, Cimicidae, driving out bedbugs, vermin |
Local (Geographical) use |
Phytomedical use in Brazil, Phytomedical use in the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana) |
Ingredients |
| | alkaloid, Alpha-Amyrin, anthraquinone, ash, Beta-Sitosterol, essential oil, fat, fixed oil, flavonols, resin, tannin |
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