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

 Ipomoea quamoclit (Convolvulaceae)

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Common name(s)
Estrella Del Sol; Cambustera; Cheveux De Venus

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Uses Country/Region Reference
Anodyne India(Santal) *
Bite(Snake) Australia *
Breast India(Santal) *
Carbuncle Elsewhere *
Catarrh Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Cyanogenetic Elsewhere *
Cyanogenetic US *
Detergent Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Piles Elsewhere *
Purgative Dominican Republic Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Purgative Australia *
Refrigerant Elsewhere *
Sore India(Santal) *
Sternutatory Spain *
Sternutatory Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
*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.