- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Malvaceae
- English Names
- Natural Habitat
- North America
- Egypt
- North- and West Africa and other tropical countries
- Mexico
- China
- Part(s) Used
- Cortex radicis Gossypii
- Gossypium depuratum (cottonwool)
- Oleum Gossypii (from the seed)
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- Constituent(s)
- root: chromogene
- fixed oil
- starch
- resin
- tannin
- glucose; oil: olein
- green colouring matter; rootbark: resin
- tannin
- Action
- root
- rootbark: emmenagogue
- parturient
- oxytocic
- galactagogue
- used as a substitute for Secale Cornuturn; seed; aphrodisiac
- mucilaginous
- nutritive; flower: considered a good cure for hypochondriasis; oil: lubricant
- liniment
- used for obtaining vitamin E and as a substitute for Sesam oil. - The shrub is cultivated for cotton in many countries
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