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  • Jun 27, 2023
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Updated: Aug 11, 2024


cotton gossypium herbaceum

What is COTTON?

Identification name: Gossypium herbaceum L.

Family: Malvaceae

Habitat: native to Asia Minor

Medicinal parts: root, bark, flower, seed

Key chemical constituents: the bark contains sugar, gum, starch, tannins, fixed oil, chlorophyll. Specifically, salicylic acid is anti-infective, antifungal, keratolytic; oleic acid is antioxidant; betaine maintains cell function and normalizes homocysteine levels; palmitic acid.

Properties and uses: it is diuretic, aphrodisiac, galactopoietic, emmenagogue and uterine hemostatic. It is used to treat dysuria, earache, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, hemorrhagic complications from childbirth.

Curiosity: a preparation of cotton seed increases milk of nursing mothers. Traditionally used as an abortifacient, not so powerful but safer than ergot.

Caution: uterine stimulant so avoid in pregnancy.


black cotton pants

These black pants are made with 60% COTTON.


They are produced using at least 50% organic materials.


Organic materials are grown using agricultural processes that can help build soil health and improve biodiversity.


Plants born from non-GMO seeds, grown without pesticides or fertilizers and whose growth requires up to 90% less water than traditional agriculture. Every drop counts.


This product puts less pressure on the resources of our planet by using materials and methods that require minimum amount of water.

​References

Even&Odd Tall SLIM FIT JOGGERS - Pantaloni sportivi - black/nero - Zalando.it

Grieve, M. A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses. Dover Publications, 1971.

Palma, Luigi. Le Piante Medicinali d'Italia: Botanica, Chimica, Farmacodinamica, Terapia. Edizioni Erbamea, 2006.

National Center for Biotechnology Information. "PubChem Compound Summary for CID 338, Salicylic Acid" PubChem, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Salicylic-Acid. Accessed 17 June, 2023.

National Center for Biotechnology Information. "PubChem Compound Summary for CID 445639, Oleic Acid" PubChem, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Oleic-Acid. Accessed 17 June, 2023.

National Center for Biotechnology Information. "PubChem Compound Summary for CID 247, Betaine" PubChem, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Betaine. Accessed 17 June, 2023.

Sharma, Monika, and Subash Sahu. Gallery of Medicinal Plants: (Dravyaguna Vigyan). Thieme, 2022.

Hoffmann, David. Medical Herbalism: The Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine. Rochester, Vt.: Healing Arts Press, 2003.



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