Ethnobotanical Plant Tropaeolum majus | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Name

Nasturtium; Hint Teresi; Capucine; Abukhanjar; Capuchina; Latin Chichegi

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
Antibiotic	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic	not available	Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Bactericide	not available	Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Bactericide	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer	Mexico	Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Cystitis	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Depurative	Turkey	Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Diuretic	Turkey	Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Emmenagogue	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.
Emmenagogue	Turkey	Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Expectorant	Turkey	Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Eye	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Fever	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Fungicide	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Inflammation	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Itch	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Kidney	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative	Turkey	Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Laxative	Iraq	Al-Rawi, Ali. 1964. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Tech. Bull. No. 15. Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate General of Agricultural Research Projects.
Lung	Mexico	Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.