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

 Combretum sundaicum (Combretaceae)

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Common name(s)
Gambir-gambir; Butter Tree; Pugar tanah

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Uses Country/Region Reference
Ache(Head) Malaya *
Boil Malaya *
Fever US Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Morphinism (Opiumism) Malaya *
Opium-Addiction Elsewhere Uphof, J.C. Th. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants. 2nd ed. Verlag von J. Cramer.
*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.