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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Thespesia populnea

Common Name
Mahot; Waru lot; Feuilles D'Haiti; Alamo Blanco; Grand Mahaut; Baru; Duartiana

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
Purgative New Zealand(Niue) *
Ringworm Elsewhere *
Ringworm Elsewhere *
Salivation Tonga *
Scabies Elsewhere *
Scabies Elsewhere *
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.
Shortwindedness Samoa *
Skin Elsewhere *
Skin Venezuela Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Stomach Samoa *
Sudorific Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Swelling New Zealand(Niue) *
Testicle New Zealand(Niue) *
Thrush Fiji Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Thrush Samoa *
Urethritis Elsewhere *
Viricide Elsewhere *
Wart Mauritius Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Wound Elsewhere *