Plant Details

Accepted name:: Zanthoxylum americanum Mill. [Rutaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
amerikanskt pepparträd	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
bois piquant	Other	Les Plantes Arom. et Med. (Bremness, 1996)
chavalier	Other	Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995) Timber Press Plant Names (Erhardt et al., 2009)
clava erculea	Other	Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995)
common prickly ash	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
common pricklyash	Other	Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998)
kababa-i-khandan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
northern prickly ash	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
northern prickly-ash	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
prickly ash	Other	Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
prickly ash, northern	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
prickly-ash	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
suterberry	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
toothache bark	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
toothache tree	Other	Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
toothache-tree	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
toothachetree	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
xanthoxylum	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
xanthoxylum fraxineum	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
yellow wood	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
zahnwehholz	Other	Kräuter Gewürze und Heilpflanzen (Bremness, 1994)
zanthoxylum	Other	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Bark, berry		Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 13 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Zanthoxylum fraxineum Willd. Sp. Pl. ed. 4. 4: 757 (1806).
Mioptrila odorata Raf. Amer. Man. Mulberry Trees: 37 (1839).
Thylax fraxineum (Willd.) Raf. Med. Fl. 2: 114 (1830).
Zanthoxylum americanum f. armatius F.C.Gates Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 42: 136 (1939 publ. 1940).
Zanthoxylum americanum f. impuniens Fassett Torreya 42: 180 (1943).
Zanthoxylum caribaeum Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. Pl. 1: 333 (1788), nom. illeg.
Zanthoxylum cauliflorum Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 1: 897 (1821), not validly publ.
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis var. americanum Du Roi Diss. Inaug. Obs. Bot.: 57 (1771).
Zanthoxylum fraxinifolium Marshall Arbust. Amer.: 167 (1785).
Zanthoxylum mite Willd. Enum. Pl.: 1013 (1809).
Zanthoxylum parvum Shinners Field & Lab. 24: 19 (1956).
Zanthoxylum ramiflorum Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 235 (1803).
Zanthoxylum tricarpum Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 118 (1831), nom. illeg.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Xanthoxylum americanum Mill.	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Xanthoxylum fraxineum Willd.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Zanthoxylum americana Mill.	Herbal Medicines, 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
Zanthoxylum americanum	Substances in Medicines, Australia (TGA, 2007)
Zanthoxylum americanum Mill.	Encyclopedia of Herb. Medicine (Bartram, 1995) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kräuter Gewürze und Heilpflanzen (Bremness, 1994) Les Plantes Arom. et Med. (Bremness, 1996) Timber Press Plant Names (Erhardt et al., 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
Zanthoxylum americanum Miller	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Zanthoxylum americanum P. Mill.	Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Zanthoxylum fraxineum	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Zanthoxylum fraxineum Willd.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)

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