Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
351 Garde Robe Extract (oil) Medicinal A. fragrantissima essential oil shows antimicrobial activity against gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, S. epidermidis and Bacillus subtilis and gram-negative Escherichia coli. 7,516
352 Glacier Wormwood Whole Beverages The herb is used as a flavouring in vermouth and liqueurs. 7,535
353 Glacier Wormwood Whole Medicinal Glacier wormwood has similar medicinal properties to common wormwood, Artemisia absinthum. It is used locally where it grows wild. The whole plant is digestive, expectorant, sedative and stomachic. An infusion of the herb has a marked effect upon mountain sickness 7,535
354 Glacier Wormwood Whole Ornamental The plant is grown as an ornamental in gardens. 7,535
355 Wormwood Whole Medicinal Artemisia herba-alba is a popular herbal treatment in N. Africa, where it is considered to be a remedy for all kinds of ailments. The plant is considered to be carminative, cholagogue, depurative, diuretic, emmenagogue, sedative, stomachic, tonic and vermifuge. 7,543
356 Wormwood Extract (oil) Industrial The leaves and stem contain an esential oil with irregular monoterpene alcohols; the sesquiterpene lactone santolin; herbolides A, B and C; thymol. 7,543
357 Wormwood Whole Oil (Fuel) Widely used as a fuel plant. 7,543
358 African Lettuce Leaf Food Yanrin leaves are eaten fresh as a salad or cooked in soups or sauces. Amongst the Yoruba people in Nigeria soup made of yanrin leaves, called ‘efo yanrin’ is popular. 7,544
359 African Lettuce Forage (fresh) Feed (Forage/Fodder) In northern Nigeria plants are fed to nursing cattle to increase milk production, and yanrin is given to livestock to induce multiple births. 7,544
360 Beluntas Leaf Food Leaves, young tops and inflorescences, either raw or cooked, are consumed in Java as a side-dish to rice, or as a salad, and sometimes as components of a soup. In Thailand, the leaves are eaten as a flavouring. 7,546
361 Beluntas Leaf Medicinal Indian sage is commonly used within its native range to treat a wide range of disorders. 7,546
362 Beluntas Whole Ornamental The plant also provides edible leaves, and is cultivated in gardens as a hedge. 7,546
363 Bhringaraj Whole Medicinal The herb is an Ayurveda and Yunani medicine. According to Ayurveda philosophy Eclipta is bitter, hot fattening, alterative, anthelminticum, and alexipharmic. It is useful in inflammations, hernia, eye diseases, bronchitis, asthama, leucoderma, anaemia, heart and skin diseases, right blindness, syphilis etc. It is reported as beneficial for complexion, hair, eyes, and teeth. 7,549
364 Black Salsify Root Food Scorzonera roots are used as a cooked vegetable. They are peeled before or after boiling. In Europe, they are among the many canned and frozen commercial vegetables (‘salsifis’ in France). 7,551
365 Black Salsify Leaf Food Young leaves are used as a salad. 7,551
366 Black Salsify Root Beverages The roots have been used, like chicory (Cichorium intybus L.), as a coffee substitute. 7,551
367 Black Salsify Whole Medicinal Medicinal uses as a diuretic, sudorific and depurative are reported from Spain and Portugal. A mixture of latex and milk is used as a cure for colds. 7,551
368 Common Sow-thistle Leaf Food Throughout Africa, the primary use of Sonchus oleraceus is as a cooked leafy vegetable, but it is also eaten raw. The tender leaves are eaten as a salad. 7,554
369 Common Sow-thistle Leaf Medicinal The leaves are said to clear infections, are used as a sedative, stomachic, diuretic and to treat liver diseases, including hepatitis. Further medicinal uses are the treatment of eye problems (Burundi), gastritis, salmonella infection (Madagascar), kwashiorkor and anaemia (Burundi, Sudan, Uganda). 7,554
370 Common Sow-thistle Forage (dry) Feed (Forage/Fodder) Sow-thistle is a favourite food for rabbits and poultry and it is also used as fodder for cattle. 7,554