Xanthium strumarium

Traditional uses

China

• Ache(Head)
• Anodyne
• Cancer
• Cold
• Diuretic
• Eczema
• Laxative
• Leprosy
• Poison
• Rheumatism
• Sedative
• Sinusitis
• Skin
• Tonic
• Tumor(Nose)
• Malaria
• Struma
• Tea
• Arthritis
• Astringent
• Hemostat
• Pruritis
• Rhinitis
• Rubella

Dominican Republic

• Astringent
• Cancer
• Scrofula
• Herpes
• Goiter

Elsewhere

• Astringent
• Bladder
• Boil
• Diaphoretic
• Diuretic
• Emollient
• Fungicide
• Herpes
• Hyperglycemia
• Inflammation
• Leucorrhea
• Lip
• Malaria
• Preventitive
• Rabies
• Sedative
• Smallpox
• Sore
• Styptic
• Swelling
• Tumor
• Urogenital
• Abscess
• Cancer
• Febrifuge
• Poison
• Scrofula
• Alterative
• Bactericide
• Demulcent
• Erysipelas
• Syphilis

Sudan

• Bladder
• Smallpox

Hawaii

• Boil
• Asthma
• Sore

Iraq

• Cancer
• Smallpox
• Styptic
• Hemicrania
• Struma

India

• Cancer
• Demulcent
• Diaphoretic
• Hemicrania
• Herpes
• Poison
• Sedative
• Sialogogue
• Sudorific
• Bladder
• Erysipelas
• Inflammation
• Smallpox

Japan

• CNS depressant

Turkey

• Demulcent
• Depurative
• Diuretic
• Sedative
• Sudorific
• Sialogogue
• Refrigerant

US

• Infection
• Shingles
• Skin
• Tubercle
• Abrasion
• Adenopathy
• Bladder
• Herpes
• Wound

Java

• Parturition

Spain

• Scrofula

Indochina

• Tumor

Mexico(Seri)

• Kidney

Brazil

• Cancer