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Vestia foetida

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exhibited modest activity in a recent investigation into the insecticidal properties of some plant species native to Chile. Extracts from
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causes sneezing and has a very bitter taste. He also lists three further medicinal uses, noting that infusions of the plant possess
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Pacheco, P., Chiang, M-T., Marticorena, C. & Silva, M. (1977) Química de las plantas chilenas usadas en medicina popular in
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C. Brevis, M. Quezada, P. Bustamante, L. Carrasco, A. Ruiz, S. Donoso, Huevil (Vestia foetida) poisoning of cattle in Chile
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say that the natives take the decoction and the infusion of huévil to 'mitigate the ardour of the blood' in cases of
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To the observations of Gusinde may be added further information provided by another missionary active in Chile:
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has caused fatalities in sheep, goats and cattle which had browsed its foliage, death being attributable to
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species, followed by 4-valved, ovoid capsules to 1 cm (0 in), containing small, prismatic seeds.
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Armando T. Hunziker: The Genera of Solanaceae. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag K.G., Ruggell, Liechtenstein 2001.
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has also been coined recently in reference to a certain similarity of the plant to some species in the
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causing the mortality of 56 percent of insects (as compared with a more impressive 87.5 percent for
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Verzeichniss der Pflanzenkulturen in den Grafl. Hoffmannseggischen Garten zu Dresden und Rammenau...
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7907806_Huevil_Vestia_foetida_poisoning_of_cattle_in_Chile
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Sanchez (2001), quoting several previous authors, supplies not only a rationale for the use of
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has been extracted from the leaves and stems, and infusions of the plant have been used in the
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Although frost-hardy, the plant requires some protection from winter winds. It has gained the
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compounds present in the plant. The paper further noted that stock poisoning caused by
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Gusinde, Martin, Plantas Medicinales que los indios Araucanos recomiendan, part I, in
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and dysentery and also for contagious diseases. The natives today use only the term
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of Chile (with due recognition of the toxicity of the medication) to treat
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to central and southern Chile, being found in an area stretching from the
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both belong to tribe Cestreae of the Solanaceae - as does a third genus,
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The genus Vestia was named in honour of Austrian botanist and physician
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so markedly exserted (= protruding) as to recall those of certain
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Paz, Cristian, Burgos, Viviana, Céspedes-Acuña, Carlos L. et al.
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Like many plants belonging to the nightshade family, Solanaceae,
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A comparison of a cluster Chilean vernacular names used for
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pain), but also an evocative definition of the folk ailment
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Another steroidal compound present both in 399:(1776 - 1840) in 1809 by German botanist and 8: 1077: 1041:Chemistry of Industrial Crops and Products 793:"International Plant Names Index (IPNI) - 42: 31: 414:, the description being published in his 640:. A scientific paper of 2005 noted that 269:(pron. "wayfil" and sometimes redoubled 894: 892: 882:POWO (Kew: Plants of the World Online) 784: 900:RHS A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants 7: 1497:e4cb7929-dafd-443a-99b3-c45d78d73bea 1249:290941b9-1d54-446e-84c9-2a35b9b34db1 532:in medicinal baths (- as a type of 25: 816:Las Penas, M. L., et al. (2006). 652:resembles closely that caused by 289:(this last being also applied to 265:language of its native Chile are 1314:urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:821664-1 295:), while an English common name 55: 1523:urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38581-1 873:Retrieved at 10.21 on 14/7/20. 857:Retrieved at 10.35 on 14/7/20. 818:Karyotypes of some species of 620:(also recorded as designating 277:. 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(Murillo : 620). 387:, after whom the genus 628:Toxicity: Stock Poison 601:Diplolepis pachyphylla 581: 567:, in certain cases of 501:Ernest Wilhelm Mösbach 490: 392: 987:Sánchez, Manuel Romo 851:The Veterinary record 773:Award of Garden Merit 596:Cynanchum lancifolium 549: 474: 404:Carl Ludwig Willdenow 383: 1037:Sitophilus granarius 686:Sitophilus granarius 1395:Vestia (Solanaceae) 699:and 80 percent for 393: 1559: 1558: 1505:Open Tree of Life 1283:Open Tree of Life 1083:Taxon identifiers 725:belonging to the 636:is poisonous and 410:was described by 331:Valparaíso Region 297:Chilean box thorn 257:). 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Index

Vestia (plant)

Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Asterids
Solanales
Solanaceae
Cestroideae
Cestreae
Vestia
Willd.
Binomial name
Hoffmanns.
monotypic genus
flowering plants
family
Solanaceae
syn.
common names
Mapudungun
Cestrum parqui
Lycium
endemic
Valparaíso Region
Chiloé Island
Los Lagos Region

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