Translations:AY Honors/Predatory Plants/Answer Key/21/en
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Medicinal
"Natural remedies" have been proposed for millennia, some beneficial, some fallacious. The following are reported, but usually poorly documented uses.
- Drosera (Sundews): External – Warts, corns, sunburn. Internal (extracts, teas) – TB, asthma, catarrhal, cough, expectorant, eye and ear infection, arteriosclerosis, liver pain, morning sickness, dropsy, stomach and intestinal disorder, nausea, epilepsy, measles, syphilis, toothache, diuretic, antispasmodic, bleeding and tranquilizer.
- Pinguicula (Butterworts): External – Festering wounds.
- Nepenthes: External – Preventing bed-wetting, incontinence, wound cleaning. Internal – Preventing bed-wetting, incontinence, laxative, anxiety, pain.
- Dionaea (Venus flytraps): Research anti-cancer.
- Sarracenia (Trumpet pitchers): Internal – Type II diabetes, indigestion, anti-small-pox, nausea.
- Unspecified: Antifungal.
