Ethnobotanical Plant Maranta arundinacea | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Name

Arorot, Arrorou, Arrowroot, Sagu, Araru

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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 Sort descending	Country/Region	Reference
Antidote	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote	Turkey	Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Antidote	Haiti	Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Convalescence	Venezuela	Pittier, H. 1926. Manual de las Plantas Usuales de Venezuela. Litografia del Comercio, Caracas, Venezuela.
Demulcent	Turkey	Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Demulcent	West Indies	Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Demulcent	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Demulcent	Trinidad	Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Depurative	Trinidad	Duke, 1992 *
Depurative	Trinidad	Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Dysentery	Trinidad	Duke, 1992 *
Dysentery	Trinidad	Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Erysipelas	Trinidad	Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Erysipelas	Trinidad	Duke, 1992 *
Hoarseness	Dominican Republic	Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Medicine	India	Duke, 1992 *
Refrigerant	Trinidad	Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Rubefacient	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Shampoo	Elsewhere	Duke, 1992 *
Sore	West Indies	Duke, 1992 *