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Nicotiana tabacum

Common Name
Tabac Mannoque; Tabaco; Tobacco; Tabac; Tutun; Yen Ts'Ao; Tan Pa Ku; Yen Ken; Tanigh; Nicoziana; Herbe A La Reine; Yu Ts'Ao; Tabigh; Toubac; Jen Ts'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
Bite(Snake) Venezuela *
Bite(Snake) Venezuela Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Bite(Snake) China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Bladder Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Boil Hawaii *
Bot Colombia *
Cancer Venezuela Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Cancer(Nose) France Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Catarrh China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Cirrhosis Indochina Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
CNS stimulant Spain Font Query, P. 1979. Plantas Medicinales el Dioscorides Renovado. Editorial Labor, S.A. Barcelona. 5th Ed.
Cold Venezuela *
Cold(Head) Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Cold(Head) Trinidad *
Cough Venezuela *
Cyanogenetic Iraq Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Debility US(Amerindian) *
Dentifrice Venezuela *
Discutient Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Diuretic Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.