Find here the main documentation - the National Inventory of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in Austria. This database contains comprehensive infor-mation about ex situ collections of Austrian genebanks.
GENBANK.AT provides access to Passport Data e.g. accession (variety) name, accession number, maintaining institute and country of origin for each accession. Additional information about Characterization Data and photos is partly available.
ECPGR Vigna Database
Medicinal Plant of the Year 2012 - Colocynth
In folk medicine Citrullus colocynthis, so its botanic name, is named after its appearence as Wild Gourd or Goats Pumpkin, after its taste as Bitter Cucumber and after its main agent as Purging Cucumber. Purging is a Latin loanword for cleaning in the sense of aperient.
The main ingredients are bitter substances, the Cucurbitacines. Its aperient and diuretic effect is known for centuries. In folk medicine it also is attributed to hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and anthelmintic (against tape worms) effects.
