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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Rauvolfia tetraphylla

Common Name
Bitterash

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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
Avicide Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Parasiticide Elsewhere *
Poison Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Skin Elsewhere *
Wound Mexico Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press