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Ethnobotanical Plant Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

Common Name
Verbena; Verveine Bleue; Bastard Vervain; Verveine A Queue De Rat; Verveine; Rumput tahi babi (Pig dung gra; Verbena Azul; Verveine Violette; Brazilian Tea; Gewongan; Selaseh dandi (Spotted basil)

Activities

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
Rash Trinidad Duke, 1992 *
Rash Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Rectitis Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Rectitis Trinidad Duke, 1992 *
Rheumatism Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Rhinitis Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Rhinosis Malaya Duke, 1992 *
Sedative Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Sedative 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.
Skin Bahamas Duke, 1992 *
Sore Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Sore Brazil Duke, 1992 *
Sore Bahamas Duke, 1992 *
Sore Ghana Duke, 1992 *
Sore Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Sore Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Sore Samoa Duke, 1992 *
Sore Malaya Duke, 1992 *
Sprain Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Stomach Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.