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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Hyptis suaveolens

Common Name
Oregano; Mastranto; Ajonjoli Cimarron; Sepulut; Mamajuana; Lerkuing; Basinan; Selaseh hutan (Woodland basil); Melisse; Malbar hutan

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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
Stimulant Elsewhere *
Stimulant Philippines *
Stimulant Malaya *
Stimulant Elsewhere *
Stomachic Philippines *
Stomachic Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Sudorific Elsewhere *
Sudorific Malaya *
Sudorific Malaysia Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Tea Curacao *
Tumor West Indies Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Uteritis Elsewhere *
Yellow Fever Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Yellow Fever Trinidad *