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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Dioscorea hispida

Common Name
Gadong; Bitoele; Gadung; Sijapa; Nami

Activities

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Uses for this plant.
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Activity Country/Region Reference
Antiseptic Malaya *
Bite(Dog) India(Santal) *
Boil India(Santal) *
Callus Java *
Callus Indonesia Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Corn Java *
Diabetes Java *
Feet Malaya *
Leprosy Java *
Poison India *
Poison(Arrow) Elsewhere Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Poison(Arrow) India *
Rabies India(Santal) *
Sore India(Santal) *
Sore Malaya *
Tumor Philippines Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Whitlow India(Santal) *
Whitlow Java *