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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
Repellant(Insect) China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Repellant(Snake) Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Rheumatism Trinidad Duke, 1992 *
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 UK Duke, 1992 *
Sedative Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Sedative Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Sedative Iraq Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Sialogogue Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Skin Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Snuff Brazil(Deni) Duke, 1992 *
Snuff Brazil(Jamamadi) Duke, 1992 *
Sore Hawaii Duke, 1992 *
Sore Canada(Kwakiutl) Duke, 1992 *
Spasm Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
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.