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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Cyperus rotundus

Common Name
Hsiang Fu; Topalak; Hama-Suge; Mustaka; So Ken Chiu; Teki; Woeta; Hsiang Fu Tzu; Boeai; Muskezamin; Tage-tage; Musta; Roekoet teki; Mota; Souchet; So Ts'Ao; Mutha

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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
Bowel Elsewhere *
Cancer(Cervix) China Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Carminative Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Chest China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Chest China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Circulation China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Cold Bahamas *
Congestion China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Demulcent Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Depression China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Diaphoretic Elsewhere *
Diaphoretic 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.
Diaphoretic Egypt Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Diarrhea China Keys, J.D. 1976. Chinese Herbs. Charles E. Tuttle Co., Tokyo.
Diuretic Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Diuretic Java *
Diuretic Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.
Diuretic Egypt Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Dysmenorrhea China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Dysmenorrhea China Lost Crops of the Incas.