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Ethnobotanical Plant Alocasia macrorrhiza

Common Name
Keladi Sebaring; Birak negeri; Hai Yu; Kuan Yin Lien; Sente; Ababa

Activities

Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Ache(Ear) Fiji Duke, 1992 *
Ache(Tooth) Malaya Duke, 1992 *
Anodyne Australia Duke, 1992 *
Antidote(Laportea) Malaya Duke, 1992 *
Antidote(Urticaria) Australia Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac Hawaii Duke, 1992 *
Arthritis Java Duke, 1992 *
Arthritis Java Duke, 1992 *
Arthritis Java Duke, 1992 *
Astringent Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Bite(Scorpion) Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Burn Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Burn Hawaii Duke, 1992 *
Cough Malaya Duke, 1992 *
Cyanogenetic Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Diarrhea Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Miasma China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Nettle Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Poison China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Poison 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.