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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Houttuynia cordata

Common Name
Dokudami; Chu Ts'Ai; Ch'I; Yu Hsing Ts'Ao; Zyuyaku; Doku-Dami; Yu Xing Cao

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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
Diuretic India *
Diuretic Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.
Diuretic China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Dysentery China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Dysentery India *
Dyspepsia China *
Emmenagogue Indochina *
Enteritis China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Eye Vietnam Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Eye India *
Female Elsewhere *
Fertility(Veterinary) Elsewhere *
Fever China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Gastritis China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Gonorrhea Japan Kimura, Koiti. 1962. Japanese medicinal plants. vol. 1 (Revised ed.). Hirokawa Publishing Co., Tokyo.
Gonorrhea India *
Internulcer Elsewhere *
Laryngitis China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Lung China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Malaria China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.