Pluchea carolinensis Health effects and herbal facts
Known as
cattletongue coughbush cure-for-all sweet-scent wild tobacco

Medical use
Ache(Head) Ache(Tooth) Anodyne Cold Cold(Head) Cough Diaphoretic Expectorant Fever Newborn Puerperium Rheumatism Shortwindedness
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Geografical distribution
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Native
- Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
- Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja California, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
- Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
Biological activities
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Chemicals detected
Chemical | Plant part | Low ppm | High ppm |
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Alkaloids | Leaf | ||
Alpha-amyrin | Plant | ||
Beta-amyrin-acetate | Shoot | ||
Campesterol | Shoot | ||
Chlorogenic-acid | Shoot | ||
Cuathemones | Shoot | ||
Flavonoids | Plant | ||
Glucosides | Plant | ||
Steroids | Plant | ||
Tannins | Leaf | ||
Taraxasteryl-acetate | Shoot | ||
Terpenoids | Plant | ||
Thymohydroquinone-dimethylether | Shoot |
Reference: Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. [Online Database]