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Ethnobotanical Plant Neurolaena lobata

Common Name
Caballon; Manzanilla

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
Itch Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Itch Panama(Choco) Duke, 1992 *
Malaria Honduras Standley, P.C. 1931. Flora of the Lancetilla Valley, Honduras. Pub. 283, Botanical Series, vol. X. Field Museum of Natl. History, Chicago.
Malaria Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Malaria Panama(Cuna) Duke, 1992 *
Malaria Trinidad Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide West Indies Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Repellant(Tick) Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Repellant(Tick) Panama(Choco) Duke, 1992 *
Sclerosis West Indies Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Stomachic Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.