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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.
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Activity Country/Region Reference
Impotency China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Inflammation Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.
Lactogogue Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Leucorrhea Java *
Medicine Venezuela Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Menoxenia China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Metritis China Keys, J.D. 1976. Chinese Herbs. Charles E. Tuttle Co., Tokyo.
Metroxenia China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Perfume Iran Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Perfume Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Side China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Sore Java *
Stimulant Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Stomach India *
Stomach Elsewhere *
Stomachic 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.
Stomachic Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Stomachic China Keys, J.D. 1976. Chinese Herbs. Charles E. Tuttle Co., Tokyo.
Stone Java *
Tonic Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.