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Ethnobotanical Plant Luffa acutangula

Common Name
Kachur; Leef; Liane Torchon; Servilleta Del Pobre; Ketola; Serviette Des Pauvres; Oyong; Petola sanding; Muneco; Torchon; Kdulifka; Esponja

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
Leprosy Iraq Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Leprosy Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Madness India(Santal) Duke, 1992 *
Meibomian Secretion Iraq Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Parturition Java Duke, 1992 *
Piles Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Piles Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Piles Iraq Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Purgative Iraq Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Purgative Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Purgative Kelantan Duke, 1992 *
Purgative Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Purgative Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Purgative 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.
Scabies India(Santal) Duke, 1992 *
Scrofula India(Santal) Duke, 1992 *
Skin Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Snuff Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Sore India(Santal) Duke, 1992 *
Sore Russia Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.