Sarcostemma acidum

Sarcostemma acidum (nomen anno 1845 ab Ioachimo Ottone Voigt statutum) est species plantarum familiae Apocynacearum, in vallibus subtropicis sub montibus Himalayis sponte crescens. Nonnulli religioni Hinduicae haerentes sucum huius speciei ad soma conficiendum recipiunt, olim ex alia planta expressum.

Sarcostemma acidum

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Plantae — Angiospermae

Eudicotyledones 
Ordo : Gentianales 
Familia : Apocynaceae 
Genus : Sarcostemma 
Species : S. acidum 

Sarcostemma acidum 
(Roxb.) Voigt  

Synonyma

*Asclepias acida Roxb.

• Cynanchum acidum (Roxb.) Oken

Bibliographia

De botanica

• J. O. Voigt, Hortus suburbanus Calcuttensis; A catalogue of the plants which have been cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's botanical garden, Calcutta, and in the Serampore botanical garden (Calcuttae: Bishop's College Press, 1845) p. 542

De pharmacologia

• B.K. Dave, R. Dhirawat, M. Kumawat, "Pharmacognostical study of a medicinal plant of india: Sarcostemma acidum" in International Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemical Research vol. 6 (2014) pp. 690-697
• Sandeep Pandey, "Ethnomedicinal potential of Sarcostemma acidum in different regions in India" in Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research vol. 11 (2018)
• Mahender S. Rathore, Narpat S. Shekhawat, "In vitro regeneration in Sarcostemma acidum (Roxb.) –an important medicinal plant of semi-arid ecosystem of Rajasthan, India" in Physiological and Molecular Biology of Plants vol. 19 (2013) pp. 269–275
• Pravanjan Kumar Tripathy, Manas Ranjan Mishra, "Pharmacognosy, Phytochemical and Pharmacological Potential of Sacostemma acidum Voigt" in International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences vol. 14 (2023) pp. 195-199

De usu religioso

• Rajesh Kochhar, "The Rgvedic Soma Plant" in ‘Medicine and Life Sciences in India (Novi Dellii, Centre for Studies in Civilization, 2001) pp. 724-739
• Wendy Donovan O'Flaherty, "The Post-Vedic History of the Soma Plant" in Robert Gordon Wasson, ed., Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality (Novi Eboraci, 1968) pp. 95-147

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Sarcostemma acidum spectant (Sarcostemma acidum, Cynanchum acidum).

Vide "Sarcostemma acidum" apud Vicispecies.

• "Folklore uses of an endangered ethnomedicinal herb of India: Sarcostemma acidum" (2011) apud Farmavita.net