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

Ethnobotanical Plant Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

Common Name
Verbena, Verveine Bleue, Bastard Vervain, Verveine A Queue De Rat, Verveine, Rumput tahi babi (Pig dung gra, Verbena Azul, Verveine Violette, Brazilian Tea, Gewongan, Selaseh dandi (Spotted basil)

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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
Abortifacient Elsewhere *
Abortifacient Bahamas *
Abortive Java *
Ache(Head) Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Alopecia Elsewhere *
Amenorrhea Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Anodyne Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Asthma Bahamas *
Boil Trinidad *
Boil Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Boil Samoa *
Boil Elsewhere *
Bronchitis Bahamas *
Bruise Elsewhere *
Cardiac Elsewhere *
Cataract Ghana *
Cathartic Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Cathartic Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Chest-Cold Bahamas *
Cough Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.