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Luffa acutangula

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

Activities

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