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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Lycopersicon esculentum

Common Name
Pomodoro; Tomate; Tamata; Liu Yueh Shih; Tomatero; Tomato; Fan Shih; Pomme D'Amour

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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
Pectoral Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Poison US Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Poison Spain Font Query, P. 1979. Plantas Medicinales el Dioscorides Renovado. Editorial Labor, S.A. Barcelona. 5th Ed.
Repellant(Insect) Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Tumor France Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Tumor(Liver) US(PA) Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Vitiligo Trinidad *
Vitiligo Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Wart Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Wart Trinidad *
Yellow Fever Elsewhere *