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
Purgative	Trinidad	Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Purgative	Elsewhere	Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Rash	Trinidad	Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Rash	Trinidad	Duke, 1992 *
Rectitis	Trinidad	Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Rectitis	Trinidad	Duke, 1992 *
Sore	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Sore	Trinidad	Duke, 1992 *
Sore	Trinidad	Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Sore	Curacao	Duke, 1992 *
Sore	Dominican Republic	Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Sore(Throat)	Curacao	Duke, 1992 *
Stomachic	Venezuela	Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Swelling(Mammary)	West Indies	Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Tongue	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Tumor	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.
Urogenital	India(Munda)	Duke, 1992 *
Venereal	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Venereal	Venezuela	Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Venereal	Trinidad	Duke, 1992 *