Ethnobotanical Plant Jatropha gossypifolia | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Name

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

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
Gargle	Curacao	Duke, 1992 *
Hematochezia	Curacao	Duke, 1992 *
Hydropsy	Haiti	Brutus, T.C., and A.V. Pierce-Noel. 1960. Les Plantes et les Legumes d'Hati qui Guerissent. Imprimerie De L'Etat, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
Itch	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	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.
Laxative	Curacao	Duke, 1992 *
Leprosy	Venezuela	Duke, 1992 *
Leprosy	Sumatra	Duke, 1992 *
Leprosy	Venezuela	Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Leprosy	Venezuela	Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Mammary	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Piles	Trinidad	Duke, 1992 *
Piles	Trinidad	Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Poison	Curacao	Duke, 1992 *
Poison	Latin America	Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Purgative	Elsewhere	Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Purgative	Venezuela	Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Purgative	Java	Duke, 1992 *
Purgative	Venezuela	Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Purgative	Haiti	Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.