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Lettuce
Lactuca sativa
Lettuce · Achicroia · Alface · Alfacer · Alfaga · Alfarza · Amarulla · Ancisam · Ansiam · Ansião · Blaarslaai · Chicorée des jardins · Cogollo · Cây rau diêp · Echte sla · Enciam · Ensalada · Farfalá · Fú-mak · Garden Lettuce
At a glance
Origin / distribution: Haiti, China, Europe, UK, Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Dominican Republic
Cultural traditions: not documented
Recorded uses: Anaphrodisiac, Antidote, Asthma, Bronchitis
Science studied: ALANINE, ASCORBIC-ACID, ASH, DELTA-5-AVENASTEROL
Research volume: 0 indexed records · volume only · methodology ↗
Legal status: Varies by jurisdiction; not assessed in this record.
Names and identity
Family: Asteraceae
Scientific name: Lactuca sativa
Common names: Lettuce, Achicroia, Alface, Alfacer, Alfaga, Alfarza, Amarulla, Ancisam, Ansiam, Ansião, Blaarslaai, Chicorée des jardins, Cogollo, Cây rau diêp, Echte sla, Enciam, Ensalada, Farfalá, Fú-mak, Garden Lettuce
History
The source record documents this plant in Haiti, China, Elsewhere, Europe, UK, Turkey, Iraq, Egypt and 2 additional places.
It records these historical or traditional applications:
- Anaphrodisiac
- Antidote
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Burn
- Cancer
- Cardiac
- Carminative
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- Circulation
- Diuretic
- Emollient
- Fever
- Hypnotic
- Insomnia
- Intellect
- Menstruation
- Palpitation
- Pertussis
- Poison
- Refrigerant
- Sclerosis(Limb)
- Sedative
- Spasm
- Tumor
- Urogenital
- Narcotic
- Anodyne
- Hyperglycemia
- Sore
- Typhoid
- Neuralgia
This summary is limited to the cited source record.
Origins and distribution
- Haiti
- China
- Elsewhere
- Europe
- UK
- Turkey
- Iraq
- Egypt
- Dominican Republic
- Kurdistan
Documented cultural uses
- Anaphrodisiac
- Antidote
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Burn
- Cancer
- Cardiac
- Carminative
- Circulation
- Diuretic
- Emollient
- Fever
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- Hypnotic
- Insomnia
- Intellect
- Menstruation
- Palpitation
- Pertussis
- Poison
- Refrigerant
- Sclerosis(Limb)
- Sedative
- Spasm
- Tumor
- Urogenital
- Narcotic
- Anodyne
- Hyperglycemia
- Sore
- Typhoid
- Neuralgia
Contemporary uses
Contemporary practice is not documented separately in this record.
Scientific compounds
Chemical presence is not evidence of clinical efficacy.
- ALANINE
- ASCORBIC-ACID
- ASH
- DELTA-5-AVENASTEROL
- DELTA-7-AVENASTEROL
- BARIUM
- BORON
- CADMIUM
- CAFFEIC-ACID
- CAMPESTEROL
- CAOUTCHOUC
- BETA-CAROTENE
- CHOLINE
- CHROMIUM
- COBALT
- COPPER
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- P-COUMARIC-ACID
- ERGOSTEROL
- FERULIC-ACID
- FIBER
- GALLIUM
- GUM
- HYOSCYAMINE
- ISOLEUCINE
- KAEMPFEROL
- LACTUCAXANTHIN
- BETA-LACTUCEROL
- LACTUCIN
- LACTUCOPICRIN
- LEAD
- LEUCINE
- LINOLEIC-ACID
- LUTEOLIN
- LYSINE
- MAGNESIUM
- MANGANESE
- MANNITOL
- MERCURY
- MOLYBDENUM
- MUFA
- NIACIN
- OLEIC-ACID
- OXALIC-ACID
- PALMITOLEIC-ACID
- PANTOTHENIC-ACID
- PECTINS
- PHOSPHORUS
- PROLINE
- PROTEIN
- PUFA
- SERINE
- SFA
- SILVER
- SODIUM
- STIGMASTEROL
- STRONTIUM
- THIAMIN
- THREONINE
- TRYPTOPHAN
- TYROSINE
- VALINE
- VIT-E
- VIT-G
- YTTERBIUM
- ZINC
- GLUTAMIC-ACID
- ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID
- PHENYLALANINE
- FOLACIN
- N-HEXACOSYLALCOHOL
- PHYTOSTEROLS
- SELENIUM
- ARGININE
- ASPARTIC-ACID
- BROMINE
- CALCIUM
- CERYL-ALCOHOL
- CITRIC-ACID
- CYSTINE
- FLUORINE
- HISTIDINE
- ALPHA-LACTUCEROL
- LANTHANUM
- LITHIUM
- MALIC-ACID
- METHIONINE
- NICKEL
- PALMITIC-ACID
- POTASSIUM
- QUERCETIN
- SILICON
- SITOSTEROL
- STIGMAST-7-EN-3-BETA-OL
- TARAXASTEROL
- ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL
- VIT-B-6
- VIT-K
- YTTRIUM
- CARBOHYDRATES
- VANADIUM
- SULFUR
- TITANIUM
- WATER
- ZIRCONIUM
- ALUMINUM
- CHLORINE
- SUGAR
- ARSENIC
- GLYCINE
- NITROGEN
- STEARIC-ACID
- FAT
- IRON
Legality
Country-specific legal status is not documented in this record.
Consult the CITES species checklist for international trade protections and listings. This is not a complete statement of local law.
Reference images
Sources
Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases · CC0
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0
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CC0 · Dr. Duke raw CSV archive
Contributions and revisions
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