Ethnobotanical Plant Aframomum melegueta | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Name

Hsi Sha Tou, Grains Of Paradise, Guinea Grains, Magiette

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Uses for this plant.
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Activity Sort descending	Country/Region	Reference
Ache(Tooth)	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Anodyne	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac	Liberia	Duke, 1992 *
Astringent	Egypt	Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Carminative	Egypt	Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Dysentery	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Dysentery	Egypt	Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Enteritis	Egypt	Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Excitant	Egypt	Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Fever	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Gastritis	Egypt	Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Liqueur	China	Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Liqueur	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Liqueur	Egypt	Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Malaria	Egypt	Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Medicine	Ghana	Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Preventitive(Migraine)	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Preventitive(Rheumatism)	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *