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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Capsella bursa-pastoris

Common Name
Shepherd'S Purse; Coban Cantasi; Nazuna; Ti Mi Ts'Ai; Pan Y Quesillo; Chi Ts'Ai; Kees Al Rai'Y

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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
Antiseptic Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.
Astringent Elsewhere *
Astringent Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Cancer Poland Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Cancer Italy Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Cancer Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.
Cardiotonic Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.
Chyluria China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Chyluria China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Contraceptive Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.
Diarrhea US Krochmal, Arnold and Connie. 1973. A guide to the medicinal plants of the United States. Quadrangle/The N.Y. Times Book Co.
Diarrhea China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Diuretic Elsewhere ANON. 1978. List of Plants. Kyoto Herbal Garden, Parmacognostic Research Lab., Central Research Division, Takeda Chem. Industries, Ltd., Ichijoji, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan.
Diuretic China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Diuretic Elsewhere Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Diuretic Elsewhere *
Diuretic US Krochmal, Arnold and Connie. 1973. A guide to the medicinal plants of the United States. Quadrangle/The N.Y. Times Book Co.
Diuretic Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Dropsy Elsewhere *
Dysentery China Lost Crops of the Incas.