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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Viola tricolor

Common Name
Hercai Menekse; Pansy; Sansiki-Sumire; Trinitaria; Stiefmutterchen

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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 Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Purgative Elsewhere *
Rhachitis Eurasia Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Scrofula Eurasia Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Skin Eurasia Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Sudorific Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Syphilis Elsewhere *
Tumor Germany Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.