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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Nasturtium officinale

Common Name
Cresson Des Jardins; Watercress; Water Cresses; Cresson De Fontaines; Suteresi; Berros; Berro; Habb Ar Rashad; Cresson D'Eau; Hurf Al May; Nasturtium; Cress; Cresson; Cresson Du Pays

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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
Stomach Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Strangury Elsewhere *
Throat Hawaii *
Tonic 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.
Tuberculosis US Krochmal, Arnold and Connie. 1973. A guide to the medicinal plants of the United States. Quadrangle/The N.Y. Times Book Co.
Tuberculosis 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.
Tuberculosis Elsewhere *
Tumor(Glands) Mexico Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Vermifuge Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Vermifuge Iraq Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Vermifuge Elsewhere *
Wart UK Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Wen UK Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.