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Allium cepa

Common Name
Hu Ts'Ung; Oignon; Cebolla; Sogan; Basal; Cabolla; Onion; Z'Oignon; Soghan; Bawang merah; Bawang puteh; Cebola; Cebolla Macho; Onion,Red; Zwibeln; Tama-Negi; Pyaz; Bawang

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Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Colic Elsewhere *
Cough Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Cough Trinidad *
Diaphoretic Elsewhere ANON. 1978. List of Plants. Kyoto Herbal Garden, Parmacognostic Research Lab., Central Research Division, Takeda Chem. Industries, Ltd., Ichijoji, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan.
Digestive Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Digestive Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Diphtheria Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Diuretic Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Diuretic 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.
Diuretic Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Dropsy Elsewhere *
Dropsy Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Dropsy Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Drowning China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Dysentery Elsewhere *
Dysentery Turkey Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Ear Hawaii *
Edema Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Emmenagogue Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Emmenagogue Iraq Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.