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Contrayerva, the Glossary

Contrayerva, or contrajerva, is the medicinal rhizome of various tropical Central American and South American species of Dorstenia in the family Moraceae, mainly Dorstenia contrajerva and the closely related Dorstenia drakena but also Dorstenia brasiliensis.^[1]

41 relations: Antidote, Aristolochia, Arrow poison, Bergapten, Cardenolide, Carolus Clusius, Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Cyperus, Dorstenia, Dorstenia brasiliensis, Dorstenia contrajerva, Dorstenia drakena, Emmenagogue, Exoticorum libri decem, Ficus, Francis Drake, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Furanocoumarin, Gaspard Bauhin, Great Plague of London, Hans Sloane, Hexastylis virginica, Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales, Iris (plant), Jamaica, Jonathan Pereira, Loimologia, Maud Grieve, Moraceae, Nathaniel Hodges, Nicolás Monardes, Passiflora, Perspiration, Polypodium, Psoralen, Rhizome, Squalene, Stimulant, Thomas Johnson (botanist), Vicente Cervantes, William Woodville.
Herbal and fungal stimulants

Antidote

An antidote is a substance that can counteract a form of poisoning.

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Aristolochia

Aristolochia is a large plant genus with over 500 species that is the type genus of the family Aristolochiaceae.

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Arrow poison

Arrow poisons are used to poison arrow heads or darts for the purposes of hunting and warfare.

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Bergapten

Bergapten (5-methoxypsoralen) is a naturally-occurring organic chemical compound produced by numerous plant species, especially from the carrot family Apiaceae and the citrus family Rutaceae.

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Cardenolide

A cardenolide is a type of steroid.

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Carolus Clusius

Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius (19 February 1526 – 4 April 1609), seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists.

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Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

Cyclopædia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences is a British encyclopedia prepared by Ephraim Chambers and first published in 1728; six more editions appeared between 1728 and 1751 with a Supplement in 1753.

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Cyperus

Cyperus is a large genus of about 700 species of sedges, distributed throughout all continents in both tropical and temperate regions.

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Dorstenia

Dorstenia is a genus within the mulberry family, Moraceae. Contrayerva and Dorstenia are Moraceae.

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Dorstenia brasiliensis

Dorstenia brasiliensis is a species of herbaceous plant in the family Moraceae of the order Rosales.

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Dorstenia contrajerva

Dorstenia contrajerva is a plant species in the family Moraceae.

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Dorstenia drakena

Dorstenia drakena is a plant species in the family Moraceae which is native to Mexico and Central America.

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Emmenagogue

Emmenagogues (also spelled emmenagogs) are herbs which stimulate blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus; some stimulate menstruation.

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Exoticorum libri decem

Exoticorum libri decem ("Ten books of exotic life forms") is an illustrated zoological and botanical compendium in Latin, published at Leiden in 1605 by Charles de l'Écluse.

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Ficus

Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae. Contrayerva and Ficus are Moraceae.

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Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake (1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580.

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Francisco Hernández de Toledo

Francisco Hernández de Toledo (c. 1515 – 28 January 1587) was a naturalist and court physician to Philip II of Spain.

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Furanocoumarin

The furanocoumarins, or furocoumarins, are a class of organic chemical compounds produced by a variety of plants.

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Gaspard Bauhin

Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin (Casparus Bauhinus; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Swiss botanist whose Pinax theatri botanici (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus.

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Great Plague of London

The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.

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Hans Sloane

Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, and collector.

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Hexastylis virginica

Hexastylis virginica, commonly known as Virginia heartleaf, is a prostrate perennial plant in the Aristolochiaceae (birthwort family).

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Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales

Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales ("Medical study of the products imported from our West Indian possessions") is the standard title for a survey by Nicolás Monardes (1493–1588), Spanish physician and botanist.

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Iris (plant)

Iris is a flowering plant genus of 310 accepted species with showy flowers.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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Jonathan Pereira

Jonathan Pereira FRS (22 May 1804, in London – 20 January 1853) was a pharmacologist, author of the Elements of Materia Medica, a standard work.

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Loimologia

Loimologia, or, an historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665, With precautionary Directions against the like Contagion is a treatise by Dr.

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Maud Grieve

Maud Grieve in 1928 Sophie Emma Magdalene Grieve (née Law; 4 May 1858 – 21 December 1941), also known as Maud, Margaret, Maude or Mrs.

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Moraceae

The Moraceae—often called the mulberry family or fig family—are a family of flowering plants comprising about 38 genera and over 1100 species.

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Nathaniel Hodges

Nathaniel Hodges M.D. (1629–1688) was an English physician, known for his work during the Great Plague of London and his written account Loimologia of it.

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Nicolás Monardes

Nicolás Bautista Monardes (1493 – 10 October 1588) was a Spanish physician and botanist.

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Passiflora

Passiflora, known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 550 species of flowering plants, the type genus of the family Passifloraceae.

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Perspiration

Perspiration, also known as sweat, is the fluid secreted by sweat glands in the skin of mammals.

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Polypodium

Polypodium is a genus of ferns in the family Polypodiaceae, subfamily Polypodioideae, according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).

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Psoralen

Psoralen (also called psoralene) is the parent compound in a family of naturally occurring organic compounds known as the linear furanocoumarins.

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Rhizome

In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow horizontally. The rhizome also retains the ability to allow new shoots to grow upwards.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrayerva

Also known as Contrajerva.

Contrayerva, the Glossary

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Herbal and fungal stimulants

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