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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Canavalia ensiformis

Common Name
Tao Tou; Jack Bean; Jackbean; Pois Maldioc

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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
Anodyne India(Santal) *
Coffee Elsewhere *
Coffee Elsewhere *
Convalescence China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Digestive China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Kidney China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Medicine Panama(Cuna) *
Mitogenic West Indies Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Poison Elsewhere *
Poison Elsewhere Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Poison West Indies Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Tonic China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Weaning Voodoo Brutus, T.C., and A.V. Pierce-Noel. 1960. Les Plantes et les Legumes d'Hati qui Guerissent. Imprimerie De L'Etat, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.