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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
Repellant(Insect) China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Repellant(Snake) Elsewhere *
Rheumatism Trinidad *
Rheumatism Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Scabies Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Sclerosis US Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Sedative Elsewhere *
Sedative Iraq Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Sedative UK *
Sedative Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Sialogogue Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Skin Elsewhere *
Snuff Brazil(Deni) *
Snuff Brazil(Jamamadi) *
Sore Canada(Kwakiutl) *
Sore Hawaii *
Spasm Elsewhere *
Tetanus Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Tumor Italy Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Tumor Indochina Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.