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

Ethnobotanical Plant Tragopogon pratensis

Common Name
Salsifis Des Pres, Barba Di Becco, Goat'S Beard, Herba Thetrait, Barba Cabruna, Gele Boksbaard, Wiesen Bocksbart

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
Bile Spanish Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Cold Elsewhere *
Emollient French Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Expectorant German Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Lithontriptic Elsewhere *
Pectoral Dutch Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Resolvent Italian Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Stomach Elsewhere *
Sudorific English Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Sudorific Elsewhere *
Tumor Europe Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.