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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Cocos nucifera

Common Name
Yeh Tzu; Cocoyeur; Nyiur; Drakht I Badinja; Kechambil; Yueh Wang T'Ou; Jeho; Ipai; Yeh Chung Chiu; Kelapa; Noix De Coco; Cocotero; Nyor; Cocoye; Kerambir; Mata De Coco; Coco; Cocotier; Kelambir; Kalapa; Niyu; Coqueiro; Palma De Coco; Kerambil; Hsu Yu

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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
Vermifuge Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Vermifuge 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.
Vermifuge Elsewhere *
Vermifuge Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Womb Hawaii *
Wound Hawaii *
Wound Samoa *
Wound China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.