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

Ethnobotanical Plant Jatropha gossypifolia

Common Name
Jarak china, Papaye Sauvage, Petit Mapou, Medecin, Medicinier, Jarak ulung, Jarak kosta merah, Tua-Tua, Yuca Cimarrona, Bellyache Bush

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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
Ache(Stomach) Curacao *
Ache(Stomach) Elsewhere *
Antibiotic India *
Asthma Curacao *
Bilious Venezuela Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Bite(Snake) Venezuela *
Cancer Costa Rica Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Candlenut Java *
Carbuncle Elsewhere *
Cold Curacao *
Cold Curacao *
Cold Curacao *
Cough Curacao *
Depurative Trinidad *
Depurative Elsewhere *
Depurative Panama Gupta, M.P., et al. 1979. Ethnopharmacognostic observations on Panamanian medicinal plants. Part I. Quarterly journal of crude drug research 17(3-4):115-130.
Depurative Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Diabetes Curacao *
Diarrhea Trinidad *
Diarrhea Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.