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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Solanum nigrum

Common Name
Lanment; Lung K'Uei; Morelle Noir; Yerba Mora; Lanman; Alaman; Morete; Long Kui; E'Nab Ath Tha'Lab; Inu-Hozuki; Ituzumu; Ranti; Manman Lanman; L'Homme; E'Nab Adh Dhib; Lanman Noir; Enab Ez Zhib; Gurkamai; Nightshade,Black; T'Ien P'Ao Ts'Ao; Terong meranti; Solatro Nero; Hierba Mora; Black Nightshade; Lao Ya Yen Ching Ts'Ao; Morelle Noire; T'Ien Ch'Ieh Tzu

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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
Colic Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Constipation Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Constipation Trinidad *
Cramp Haiti Brutus, T.C., and A.V. Pierce-Noel. 1960. Les Plantes et les Legumes d'Hati qui Guerissent. Imprimerie De L'Etat, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
Cyanogenetic US *
Depurative Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Depurative Haiti Brutus, T.C., and A.V. Pierce-Noel. 1960. Les Plantes et les Legumes d'Hati qui Guerissent. Imprimerie De L'Etat, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
Depurative Trinidad *
Dermatitis China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Diaphoretic Iraq Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Diarrhea China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Diuretic China ANON. 1974. A barefoot doctor's manual. DHEW Publication No. (NIH): 75-695.
Diuretic Elsewhere ANON. 1978. List of Plants. Kyoto Herbal Garden, Parmacognostic Research Lab., Central Research Division, Takeda Chem. Industries, Ltd., Ichijoji, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan.
Diuretic Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Diuretic Elsewhere *
Diuretic Elsewhere *
Diuretic China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Dropsy Java *
Dropsy India *
Dropsy Sudan Broun, A.F., and R.E. Massey. 1929. Flora of the Sudan. The controller, Sudan Govt. Office, Wellington House, Buchingham Gate, London, S.W.I.