Do milkweed have medicinal properties?

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Do milkweed have medicinal properties?

Answer 1

Milkweed is a common folk remedy used for removing warts. Milkweed sap is applied directly to the wart several times daily until the wart falls off. Dandelion sap is often used in the same manner.

Milkweed sap is also externally used as a natural remedy for Poison Ivy.

Asclepias tuberosa Butterfly Milkweed has many medicinal uses.  The Omahas and Poncas ate the raw root of the butterfly milkweed for bronchial and pulmonary troubles.  Butterfly milkweed root was also chewed and placed on wounds, or dried, pulverized, and blown into wounds.  The Omaha tribe used butterfly milkweed medicine for rites belonging to the Shell Society.  The Dakotas used the butterfly milkweed as an emetic.  The Menominis considered the butterfly milkweed, which they called the "deceiver," one of their most important medicines.  

  Generalized medicinal uses for milkweed species include 1) its use in a salve for scrofulous swelling, 2) as a diarrhea medicine, 3) drunk by mothers unable to produce milk, 4) medicine for snow blindness and other forms of blindness, 5) relief of sore throat, 6) applied chewed root for swelling and rashes, 7) to expel tapeworm, 8) to treat colic, 9) to act as contraceptives, and 10) to cure snakebite.

European Americans used Asclepias tuberosa Butterfly Milkweed, called "pleurisy root", to relieve inflammation of the lining of the lungs and thorax, and to relieve bronchial and pulmonary trouble.  Pleurisy root is a stimulant to the vagus nerve, producing perspiration, expectoration, and bronchial dilation.  As its name signifies, it is useful for pleurisy and mild pulmonary edema, increasing fluid circulation, cilia function, and lymphatic drainage.  The root of the butterfly milkweed, was officially listed in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia from 1820 to 1905 and in the National Formulary from 1916 to 1936.

Answer 2

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