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Ethnobotanical Plant Jatropha gossypifolia

Common Name
Jarak china; Papaye Sauvage; Petit Mapou; Medecin; Medicinier; Jarak ulung; Jarak kosta merah; Tua-Tua; Yuca Cimarrona; Bellyache Bush

Activities

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
Ache(Stomach) Curacao Duke, 1992 *
Ache(Stomach) Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic India Duke, 1992 *
Asthma Curacao Duke, 1992 *
Bilious Venezuela Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Bite(Snake) Venezuela Duke, 1992 *
Cancer Costa Rica Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Candlenut Java Duke, 1992 *
Carbuncle Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Cold Curacao Duke, 1992 *
Cold Curacao Duke, 1992 *
Cold Curacao Duke, 1992 *
Cough Curacao Duke, 1992 *
Depurative Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Depurative Panama Gupta, M.P., et al. 1979. Ethnopharmacognostic observations on Panamanian medicinal plants. Part I. Quarterly journal of crude drug research 17(3-4):115-130.
Depurative Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Depurative Trinidad Duke, 1992 *
Diabetes Curacao Duke, 1992 *
Diarrhea Curacao Duke, 1992 *
Diarrhea Venezuela Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.