Ethnobotanical Plant Pteridium aquilinum | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Name

Bracken; Chueh; Eagle Fern; Helecho Comun

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
Astringent	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Bactericide	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Breast	US	Krochmal, Arnold and Connie. 1973. A guide to the medicinal plants of the United States. Quadrangle/The N.Y. Times Book Co.
Carcinogenic	US	Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Cyanogenetic	US	Duke, 1992 *
Diarrhea	US	Krochmal, Arnold and Connie. 1973. A guide to the medicinal plants of the United States. Quadrangle/The N.Y. Times Book Co.
Diarrhea	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	US(Amerindian)	Krochmal, Arnold and Connie. 1973. A guide to the medicinal plants of the United States. Quadrangle/The N.Y. Times Book Co.
Fever	China	Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Gastritis	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Hypertension	Spain	Font Query, P. 1979. Plantas Medicinales el Dioscorides Renovado. Editorial Labor, S.A. Barcelona. 5th Ed.
Inflammation	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Intestine	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Medicine	China	Duke, 1992 *
Mutagenic	US	Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Poison	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Poison	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Poison	US	Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Puberty	Canada(Salish)	Duke, 1992 *
Sclerosis(Spleen)	Europe	Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.