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Plantago major

Common Name
Plantain; Llanten; Oba-Ko; Tarkuz; Ch'E Ch'Ien; Sangka buwah; Wegerlich; Llanten Mayor; Daum sejumbok; Buyuk Sinirliot; Gechi Qulaghi; Sangkuwah; Sangkubah; Lisan Al Hamal; Ekur anjing (Dog tail); Sembung otot; Otot ototan; Sei Ohr Re; Suri pandak; Bazir Dam Bil; Arnoglossa; Meloh kiloh

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Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Collyrium Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Collyrium Trinidad *
Collyrium Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Conjunctivitis China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Cough Malaya *
Cough Elsewhere *
Debility Hawaii *
Demulcent Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Demulcent Elsewhere *
Deobstruent Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Depurative Java *
Depurative Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Depurative Turkey Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Diabetes Java *
Diarrhea China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Diarrhea Iraq Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Diarrhea Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Diuretic Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Diuretic Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Diuretic China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.