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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Pistia stratiotes

Common Name
Gadjambang; Kambiang; Sarme-sarme; Tajapoe; Kapu-kapu; Kiambang

Activities

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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
Diabetes Elsewhere *
Diuretic Malaya *
Dropsy Venezuela Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Dysentery Elsewhere *
Dysentery Java *
Dysentery India *
Dysentery Egypt Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Dysentery Elsewhere *
Dysentery Elsewhere *
Dysuria Egypt Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Ear India(Munda) *
Eczema Elsewhere *
Emollient Brazil *
Emollient Egypt Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Emollient Elsewhere *
Eye Cuba *
Fever Egypt Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Gonorrhea Malaya *
Hematuria Java *
Inflammation Cuba *