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

Ethnobotanical Plant Flourensia cernua

Common Name
Tarbush

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
Colic Mexico(Kickapoo) *
Dysentery Mexico(Kickapoo) *
Dyspepsia Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Indigestion Elsewhere Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Metrorrhagia Mexico(Kickapoo) *
Poison US Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Stiffness Mexico(Kickapoo) *
Stomach Mexico Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press