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Cecropia peltata

Common Name
Bois Canon; Bois Trompette; Yagrumo; Grayumbo; Yagruma; Trompettier; Trompette; Grayumbe; Trumpet Tree

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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
Diuretic Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Dropsy Elsewhere Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Dropsy Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Dysentery South America Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Dysentery West Indies Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Emmenagogue Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Fever Trinidad *
Fever Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Flu Trinidad *
Flu Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Fumitory Elsewhere *
Gonorrhea Haiti 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.
Hepatitis Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Herpes Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Liver Elsewhere Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Medicine Panama(Cuna) *
Nerves Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Obesity Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Poison Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Scorpion Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.