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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Ceiba pentandra

Common Name
Fromager; Kabu kapes; Mengkapas; Randu; Fromagier; Mapou Coton; Kapok; Kapokku-No-Ki; Mapou; Kabu-kabu; Ceiba; Kekabu

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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
Emetic Java *
Emollient Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Emollient Elsewhere *
Enterosis Malacca *
Erysipelas Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Erysipelas Trinidad *
Feet Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Feet Trinidad *
Female Panama(Cuna) *
Fever Malaya *
Filler Elsewhere ANON. 1978. List of Plants. Kyoto Herbal Garden, Parmacognostic Research Lab., Central Research Division, Takeda Chem. Industries, Ltd., Ichijoji, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan.
Gravel Java *
Hoarseness Java *
Hydropsy Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Leprosy Elsewhere *
Neuralgia 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.
Parturition Malaya *
Parturition Elsewhere *
Salt Elsewhere *
Shampoo Java *