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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ethnobotanical Plant Sambucus australis

Common Name
Sauco, Elderberry

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
Cancer(Stomach) Chile Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Diuretic Latin America Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Dyspepsia Latin America Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Intoxicant Argentina Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Poison South America Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Sudorific Latin America Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.