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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Clitoria ternatea

Common Name
Kembang teling; Mazeryon Hindi; Menteling; Cwetabhanda

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
Purgative Samoa *
Purgative Iraq Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Purgative Elsewhere *
Purgative Sudan Broun, A.F., and R.E. Massey. 1929. Flora of the Sudan. The controller, Sudan Govt. Office, Wellington House, Buchingham Gate, London, S.W.I.
Purgative Venezuela Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Refrigerant Elsewhere *
Swelling Philippines *
Tumor(Abdomen) India Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.