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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

E Antiaris toxicaria (Moraceae) PDF

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Common name(s)
Anchar; Upasr; Upas Tree

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Use	Country/Region	Reference
Arrow-poison	Malaya
Cardiopathy	Java
Dysentery	Elsewhere
Fever	Elsewhere
Homicide	Java	Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Poison	Elsewhere
Poison	Solomon I
Poison	Elsewhere	Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Poison(Arrow)	Java	Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977