Steinmetz:Gossypium

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Gossypium herbaceum (and other species)

Also known as (or relevant to)
Family
Malvaceae
English Names
  • Cotton plant
Natural Habitat
  • North America
  • Egypt
  • North- and West Africa and other tropical countries
  • Mexico
  • China
Part(s) Used
  • Cortex radicis Gossypii
  • Gossypium depuratum (cottonwool)
  • Oleum Gossypii (from the seed)
Constituent(s)
  • root: chromogene
  • fixed oil
  • starch
  • resin
  • tannin
  • glucose; oil: olein
  • green colouring matter; rootbark: resin
  • tannin
Action
  • root
  • rootbark: emmenagogue
  • parturient
  • oxytocic
  • galactagogue
  • used as a substitute for Secale Cornuturn; seed; aphrodisiac
  • mucilaginous
  • nutritive; flower: considered a good cure for hypochondriasis; oil: lubricant
  • liniment
  • used for obtaining vitamin E and as a substitute for Sesam oil. - The shrub is cultivated for cotton in many countries
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