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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Momordica charantia

Common Name
Periok; Ejinrin; Balsam Apple; Sorci; Kerela; Chin Li Chih; Assorossie; Gule Khandan; Pare; A'Jayib Al Maasi; Salsamino; Sorossie; Peria; Sorossi; Melao De Sao Caetano; Sorossies; Balsampear; K'U Kua; Peria laut; Lai P'U T'Ao

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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
Dermatosis Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Diabetes Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Diabetes Trinidad *
Diabetes Cuba *
Diabetes Portorico *
Diabetes Mellitis India *
Diabetes Mellitis Puerto Rico *
Diarrhea Malaya *
Digestive West Indies *
Dysentery Trinidad *
Dysentery Elsewhere *
Dysentery Ghana Ayensu, Edward S. 1978. Medicinal plants of West Africa. Reference Publications, Inc.
Dysentery Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Dysmenorrhea Elsewhere *
Dyspepsia Kurdistan Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Eczema India *
Emetic Elsewhere *
Emmenagogue Panama Gupta, M.P., et al. 1979. Ethnopharmacognostic observations on Panamanian medicinal plants. Part I. Quarterly journal of crude drug research 17(3-4):115-130.
Eruption Elsewhere *
Eye(Veterinary) Elsewhere *