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Ethnobotanical Plant 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

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
Diuretic Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Dysentery Venezuela Duke, 1992 *
Emetic Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Epistaxis Mexico(Kickapoo) Duke, 1992 *
Evil eye Venezuela Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Fatality US Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Fear US(Amerindian) Duke, 1992 *
Flu Venezuela Duke, 1992 *
Fumitory Philippines(Ifugao) Duke, 1992 *
Fumitory US(Amerindian) Duke, 1992 *
Fumitory China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Fumitory Mexico Duke, 1992 *
Fumitory Sudan Broun, A.F., and R.E. Massey. 1929. Flora of the Sudan. The controller, Sudan Govt. Office, Wellington House, Buchingham Gate, London, S.W.I.
Fumitory 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.
Fumitory US Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Fumitory Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Gastritis Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Hallucinogen Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Hallucinogen Ecuador(Jivaro) Duke, 1992 *