Various species of this genus have a history of use in various traditions of herbal medicine.

Moreover, many of these plants were used as curare applied as arrow poison during hunting.

[1] Cissampelos pareira is used in Chinese herbology.

The Maasai people of Kenya use Cissampelos mucronata as a forage for their cattle.

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