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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Areca catechu

Common Name
Ping Lang; Ta Fu Tzu; Bluk; Pinang; Chohang; Wohan; Fufal Agaci; Batang majang; Jambe; Poea; Kramuka; Bing Lang

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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
Syphilis India(Santal) *
Taenicide Elsewhere Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Taenifuge India *
Tapeworm Java *
Tenifuge China Keys, J.D. 1976. Chinese Herbs. Charles E. Tuttle Co., Tokyo.
Tonic China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Tonic Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Tumor(Abdomen) India Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Venereal India(Santal) *
Vermifuge China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Vermifuge India *
Vermifuge Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Vermifuge China *
Vermifuge 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.
Vermifuge China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Vermifuge China Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.