Croton texensis

Croton texensis (common names Texas croton, goat weed, skunk weed, and doveweed), is a plant found in the United States.

Croton texensis
Male plant
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Croton
Species:
C. texensis
Binomial name
Croton texensis

Uses

Among the Zuni people, a decoction of the plant is taken for "sick stomach", as a purgative, and as a diuretic.[1] An infusion is also taken for stomachaches, for syphilis, and for gonorrhea.[2] The fresh or dried root is chewed by a medicine man before sucking snakebite and a poultice is applied to the wound.[3] The whole plant can be placed under the mattress or burned to repel bedbugs.[4]

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References
  1. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe 1915 Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 (p.45)
  2. Camazine, Scott and Robert A. Bye 1980 A Study Of The Medical Ethnobotany Of The Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365-388 (p. 375)
  3. Camazine and Bye, p.376
  4. Moore, Michael (1977). Los Remedios de la Genta. p. 5.


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