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

Ethnobotanical Plant Rumex acetosella

Common Name
Sheep Sorrel, Sorrel,Field, Wilde Zuring, Acederilla, Chuka Palam, Petite Oseille, Acidula, Sorrel,Sheep'S, Sorrel, Chutrika, Cizana, Acetosella, Kleiner Sauer Ampfer, Tangax Uqux

Activities

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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
Cancer Elsewhere *
Cancer Canada(Amerindian) Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Cancer US Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Cancer(Throat) Tasmania Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Depurative US Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Diaphoretic Elsewhere *
Diuretic Elsewhere *
Diuretic Italian Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Fever German Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Poison Elsewhere *
Poison Sanscrit Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Purgative Dutch Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Refrigerant Elsewhere *
Scurvy Spanish Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Scurvy Elsewhere *
Skin India Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Styptic Venezuela Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Sudorific French Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Tumor Elsewhere *
Tumor(Eye) Europe Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.