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

 Panicum maximum (Poaceae)

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Common name(s)
Guinea Grass; Herbe De Guinee; Z'Herbe De Guinee

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Uses Country/Region Reference
Cyanogenetic Latin America Lewis and Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany, ca 1977
Cyanogenetic South Africa *
Diuretic Haiti Brutus, T.C., and A.V. Pierce-Noel. 1960. Les Plantes et les Legumes d'Hati qui Guerissent. Imprimerie De L'Etat, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
Diuretic Haiti Liogier, Alain Henri. 1974. Diccionario Botanico de Nombres Vulgares de la Espanola. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Santo Domingo.
Poison South Africa *
Preventitive Elsewhere *
Tympanitis(Veterinary) Elsewhere *
*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.