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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Piscidia piscipula

Common Name
Bois Ivrant

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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
Neuralgia Elsewhere *
Neuralgia Mexico Standley, Paul C. Trees and shrubs of Mexico. Contributions U.S. National Herbarium, vol. 23. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Piscicide Guatemala Standley, P.C., and J.A. Steyermark. 1952. Flora of Guatemala. Fieldiana Botany, vol, 24, pt. 3. Museum of Natl. History, Chicago.
Piscicide US Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Piscicide Elsewhere *
Piscicide Mexico Standley, Paul C. Trees and shrubs of Mexico. Contributions U.S. National Herbarium, vol. 23. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Piscicide Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Piscicide Bahamas *
Piscicide Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Piscicide Elsewhere *
Poison Elsewhere *
Poison(Arrow) Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Sedative Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Sedative Elsewhere *
Sedative Elsewhere *
Sialogogue Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Soporific Elsewhere *
Spasm Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Sudorific Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.