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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Lithospermum ruderale

Common Name
Stoneseed

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Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Contraceptive US(Navajo) *
Contraceptive US(Shoshone) *
Diarrhea US(Flathead) Hart, J.A. 1979. The ethnobotany of the Flathead Indians of Western Montana. Botanical Museum Leaflet 27(10). Harvard University.
Diarrhea US(Shoshone) Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Laxative US(Blackfoot) *
Pleurisy US(Flathead) Hart, J.A. 1979. The ethnobotany of the Flathead Indians of Western Montana. Botanical Museum Leaflet 27(10). Harvard University.