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Ethnobotanical Plant Sweetia panamensis

Common Name
Cascara Amarga

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
Diabetes Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Fever Elsewhere Duke, 1992 *
Malaria Guatemala Standley, P.C., and J.A. Steyermark. 1952. Flora of Guatemala. Fieldiana Botany, vol, 24, pt. 3. Museum of Natl. History, Chicago.
Scrofula Central America Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.