author(s) : Abdel-Fattah M. Rizk, Nahla S. Abdel-Azim, Husseiny A. H. Elgendy,
and Ibrahim A. El-Garf
description
No thing reported in Description
family name
ASCLEPIADACEA
Species count in Egypt
represented in egypt with 1 Specie
- Carbohydrates
- Pregnanes and Other Steroids
- Terpenoids
- Flavonoids and Other Phenolic Compounds
- Alkaloids
Cynanchum specie have been reported for their use in folk medicine as antifebrile,antitumour, antitussive, diuretic, expectorant, anticonvulsant, anodyne, and tonic agent, and iseffective against chronic hepatitis (Fawzy et al., 2008).
Cynanchum paniculatum (Bunge)Kitag. has been used in Chinese traditional medicine for treating snake bites and chronicbronchitis.
The root of this plant has been used as a diuretic in Korean folk medicine (Oh etal., 2013)….
location
egypt