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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Crinum asiaticum

Common Name
Selendep; Bakung; Melong; Lelie; Bawang hoetan; Bakong; Bakoh; Bawang tembaga; Bunga tembaga suasa; Landap; Cay Chuoi Moc; Tapeusa; Bawang tanah; Sookh Durson

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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 Country/Region Reference
Ache(Head) Malaya *
Anodyne Malaya *
Antidote Samoa *
Antidote(Poison arrow) Java *
Bilious Elsewhere *
Carbuncle China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Chafing Malaya *
Diaphoretic 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.
Diaphoretic Elsewhere Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Dysuria Java *
Edema Java *
Emetic Malaya *
Emetic 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.
Emetic Elsewhere Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Emetic Samoa *
Expectorant Elsewhere *
Fever Malaya *
Ipecac India Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
Laxative Elsewhere *
Lumbago Malaya *