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

Ethnobotanical Plant Curcuma domestica

Common Name
Yu Chin, Turmeric, Olena, Kurkuma Uzum, Safran Des Indes, Safran Du Pays, Safran De St Domingue, Safron Du Pays, Ukon, Haridra

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(Stomach) Samoa *
Ache(Tooth) China Leung, Albert Y. 1980. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients. John Wiley and Sons, N.Y.
Alterative India *
Anodyne China Leung, Albert Y. 1980. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients. John Wiley and Sons, N.Y.
Anodyne Elsewhere *
Anodyne India(Santal) *
Anthrax India(Santal) *
Antidote(Arsenic) China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Antidote(Worms) China Shih-chen, Li. 1973. Chinese medinal herbs. Georgetown Press, San Francisco.
Antiseptic Elsewhere *
Antiseptic Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Antiseptic Tonga *
Anus India(Santal) *
Apertif Elsewhere *
Arthritis Elsewhere *
Asthma Samoa *
Atrophy India(Santal) *
Bite(Insect) Egypt Tackholm, Vivi and Gunnar. 1973 (reprint). Flora of Egypt. Vol. 1-4. Originally published in Foriad I Univ. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, vol. 17, Cairo, 1941.
Blindness India(Santal) *
Bronchitis India(Santal) *