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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Dieffenbachia seguine

Common Name
Mata Del Cancer; Dumbcane; Dicha

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
Insecticide Cuba *
Internulcer Colombia *
Poison Elsewhere *
Poison Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Poison(Arrow) Colombia(Vichada) *
Poison(Arrow) Brazil *
Poison(Arrow) Brazil(Tucuna) *
Prurigo West Indies *
Rodenticide Cuba *
Sterilizant Germany *
Sterilizant(Male) West Indies *
Varicosity Wi(Carib) *
Wart Cuba Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Yaws Wi(Carib) *