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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Ceanothus americanus

Common Name
Ceanoto; Ceanote; Wild Snowball; New Jersey Tea; Redroot; Ceanothe; Sackelblume; Amerikaanse Ceanothus

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Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Syphilis US(Amerindian) Krochmal, Arnold and Connie. 1973. A guide to the medicinal plants of the United States. Quadrangle/The N.Y. Times Book Co.
Syphilis US(Appalachia) *
Syphilis Mexico Standley, Paul C. Trees and shrubs of Mexico. Contributions U.S. National Herbarium, vol. 23. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Tea US(Appalachia) *
Tea US Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Tes US Krochmal, Arnold and Connie. 1973. A guide to the medicinal plants of the United States. Quadrangle/The N.Y. Times Book Co.
Tumor US Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.