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- | Asclepias tuberosa L. - Asclepiadaceae - butterfly weed, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, **Knollige Seidenpflanze**, | ||
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- | Rough-hairy leafy perennial of North America, 60-90 cm high, from long horizontal roots; leaves alternate, lanceolate or oblong, acute or obtuse, sessile or very short petioled; flowers about 6 mm across, in short-peduncled many-flowered umbels; corolla greenish-orange; | ||
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- | "In the 19th century plant parts were used for lung problems such as asthma and bronchitis. Asclepias tuberosa is still used in homeopathy as remedy." | ||
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- | "The fluidextract of Asclepias tuberosa was found to contain substances estrogenic to castrate rats. A method for separating these substances is proposed. The fluidextract was also found to exert an appreciable oxytocic-like action upon the uteri of several species of laboratory animals both in vitro and in vivo." \\ | ||
- | [The estrogenic and uterine-stimulating activity of asclepias tuberosa. A preliminary investigation. Christopher H. Costello, Calvin L. Butler, Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 39.4 (1950): 233-237] | ||
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- | Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants [J. Paxton], vol. 2: p. 26 (1835-1836) [F.W. Smith] \\ | ||
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