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Ethnobotanical Plant Micromelum minutum

Common Name
Chemama; Cherek-cherek; Cherek puteh

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
Ache(Back) Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Ache(Stomach) Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Ague Malaya Duke, 1992 *
Cough Sumatra Duke, 1992 *
Dermatitis Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Diarrhea Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Evil eye Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Fever Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Fever Sumatra Duke, 1992 *
Fracture Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Mental Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Phthisis Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Shortwindedness Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Skin Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Tongue Fiji Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press