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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ethnobotanical Plant Capsicum frutescens

Common Name
Piment De Cayenne, Sili Biberi, Chile, Pepper,Red, Filfil Darah

Activities

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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
Ache(Ear) Elsewhere *
Ache(Head) Philippines Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Ague Elsewhere *
Antibiotic Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Antibiotic Elsewhere *
Antidote Elsewhere *
Antidote(Poison) India(Santal) *
Asthma Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Asthma Trinidad *
Baldness Elsewhere *
Bite(Snake) Elsewhere *
Boil Trinidad *
Boil Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Breathlessness Samoa *
Bronchitis India(Santal) *
Cancer(Nose) Gabon Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Carcinoma Mongolia Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Carminative Elsewhere *
Carminative Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Carminative Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.