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

 Scarlet-Fever

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Plant
Anemarrhena asphodelioides
Arctium lappa ( Arqityon, Bardana, Burdock, Burdock Blood, Dulavratotu, Gobo, Kewe, Kuang Mu Hsiang, Lampazo Mayor, Niu P'Ang Tzu, Niu Ts'Ai, Shu Nien, Ta Li Tzu, Waisar, Wu Shih )
Gynura sarmentosa
Luffa aegyptiaca ( Leaf, Liane Torchon, Lifka, Man Kua, Musu, Pu Kua, Serviette Des Pauvres, Servilleta Del Pobre, Ssu Kua, T'Ien Lo, T'Ien Ssu Kua, Torchon )
Scrophularia oldhami ( Gomanoha-Gusa, Hei Shen, Hsuan Shen, Yeh Chih Ma, Yuan Shen )
*Unless otherwise noted all references are to Duke, James A. 1992. Handbook of phytochemical constituents of GRAS herbs and other economic plants. Boca Raton, FL. CRC Press.