title: Swallowwort
text: # Swallowwort
  
  Swallowwort or swallow-wort is a common name for several plants and plant families. The term may be a description of poisonous effects, or indicate that a plant was formerly used medicinally for tonsillitis.
  
  It may refer to:
  
  * Any of several vines of the genus Vincetoxicum, especially white swallowwort (Vincetoxicum hirundinaria), black swallowwort (Vincetoxicum nigrum), and pale swallowwort (Vincetoxicum rossicum)
  * Any of several vines of the genus Cynanchum. Cynanchum is from Greek words meaning "to choke a dog."
  * Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus).
  * Greater celandine and swallowwort were each often categorized with tetterworts because they were used to treat tetter. This led to nomenclature confusion among these worts.
  * many plants of the genus Asclepias
  * Euphorbia maculata
  * Seutera angustifolia, a plant of the genus Seutera
  