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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Mikania micrantha

Common Name
Liane Francois; Uahkoxiu

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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
Athlete's-Foot Trinidad *
Bite(Bug) Samoa *
Bite(Bug) Fiji Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Bite(Snake) Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Bite(Snake) Trinidad *
Burn Samoa *
Cough Samoa *
Fever Haiti *
Hemostat Fiji *
Hemostat Samoa *
Scorpion Trinidad *
Sore Fiji Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Styptic Fiji Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Tourniquet Trinidad *
Tumor Mexico Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Wound Fiji *