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

Ethnobotanical Plant Piper retrofractum

Common Name
Vahl, Longpepper,Java, Chabe alas, Javanese Long Pepper, Chabai jawa (Java long pepper), Chabean, Lada panjang (Long pepper), Chabe sula

Activities

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Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Ache(Tooth) Lada pandjang *
Aphrodisiac Tjabean *
Cancer(Nose) Malaya Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Carminative Elsewhere *
Colic Philippines *
Cramps Malaya *
Diaphoretic Tjabea alas *
Digestive Malaysia *
Dyspepsia Philippines *
Dyspepsia Malaya *
Flatulence Tjabe pandjang *
Gastralgia Philippines *
Hepatosis Malaya *
Inertia Malaysia *
Osteosis Malaya *
Parturition Tjabea alas *
Piles Elsewhere *
Puerperium Malaysia *
Spice Malaya Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Stimulant Elsewhere *