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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
Tranquilizer Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.
Trauma China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Tumor(Abdomen) India Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Ulcer 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.
Vasodilator Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.
Vermifuge India Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Vermifuge 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.
Vermifuge Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Virility China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Whitlow Java *
Wound Samoa *