Plant Details

Accepted name:: Allium cepa L. [Amaryllidaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
agnoman	Other	Pl. Méd. Vendues dans le Marché, Bénin (Adomou et al., 2012)
ai	Other	Trade in African Med. Pl., Belgium (van Andel & Fundiko, 2016)
ajo	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
allii cepae bulbus	Pharmaceutical	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
allium	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
allium cepa	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
aritarapasakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ba la nda (p)	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
basal	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011) Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
basl	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
bauang pula	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bawang	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bawang besar	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bawang bombay	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bawang kuchai	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bawang merah	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Fresh Med. Pl. in Singapore (Siew et al., 2014) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bawang puteh	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bsal	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
bulbus allii cepae	Pharmaceutical	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
cabolla	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
canone casaun	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
cebola	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
cebolla	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994) Med. Pl. by Health Professionals, Mexico (Alonso-Castro et al., 2017) Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
cebolla blanca	Other	Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
cebolla macho	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
cebolla morada	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
cebolla país	Other	Guía de la Col. de Pl. Med. de PCTY (Méndez González et al., 2016)
cebolla roja	Other	Guía de la Col. de Pl. Med. de PCTY (Méndez González et al., 2016)
cepa bulb	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
cepolla	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
ceriyaulli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chinese chives	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
chinna vengayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chuvannaulli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cipolla	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024)
common onion	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
cu hanh	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
cukantanam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cukantaram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cukantarapputu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cukarantam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cukkirantam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cuvannulli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dehydrated onion	Other	ISO Catalogue (2009)
dirghapatra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
dirghpatra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dungali	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
durgandh	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
durgandha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
echalote	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
eeravengayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
eerulli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
enkalapputu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
enkanapputu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
erra ulligadda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
erragaddalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
etcam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
fresh onion	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
ganda	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
garden onion	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
hom hua yai	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
hom khaao	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
hom yai	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
hong cong	Other	Fresh Med. Pl. in Singapore (Siew et al., 2014)
horn farang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
hu t'sung t'song	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
hu ts'ung	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
hu-t'sung	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
hua phak bhu	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
i-i-bsel	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
inyan	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
ira-vengayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
irakayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
irakkacciyam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
irakucci	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
irakuccipputu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
irakuccittam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
irakucittam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
irankayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
iravengayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
iravenkayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
iravulli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
irulli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaccanakayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaccankayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaisun	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
kamdo	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kanda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kanda nripakanda	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
kandaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kando	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kantaculikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kantam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kapalakini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kapalakinipputu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katikaropi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kayatari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kayattiri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kesounni	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
khtim	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
kremmýdi	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
kukut	Other	Guía de la Col. de Pl. Med. de PCTY (Méndez González et al., 2016)
kunbali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuranacam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kutamakayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kyet-thun-ni	Other	Med. Pl. of Myanmar (Myanmar Ministry of Health, 2008)
küchenzwiebel	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
l'oignon	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
latarka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
loyon	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
lra-vengayam	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
lruli	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
lruli,vella-vengayam	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
lrulli	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
lök	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
madhujam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
madras oignon	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
mahakanda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
matukkamam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mesakaputpam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mukantakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mukattusanam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mukatusikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mukhadusaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mullittalati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muttuppuvali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naimamicam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naimamicappuntu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nattirulli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
neermulli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
neerulli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
niccayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
niruli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nirulli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
nripakanda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
nripapriya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
nripavhaya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nripeshtha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ogba	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
oignon	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
onion	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) ISO Catalogue (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994) Med. Pl. of Myanmar (Myanmar Ministry of Health, 2008) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
onion oil	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
onion, red	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
onions	Other	Healing Potential of Med. Pl., Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2000) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
pa la na da (d)	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pa la nda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palaandu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
palandu	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
palanduh	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palanduhu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palankayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palantu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palantukam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pantu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
perullattali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
piaj	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003)
piaz	Other	Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indig. Knwlg. on Med. Flora, Pakistan (Shah et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017) Pl. for Snake/Scorpion Bite, N Pakistan (Butt et al., 2015)
pimaz	Other	Med. Pl. in Balochistan, Pakistan (Bibi et al., 2014)
piyaaz	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
piyaj	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
piyas	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
piyav	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
piyaz	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
piyaz safaid	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
piyaz taza	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
piāz	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
pyaaz	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
pyaj	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pyaz	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Non-Timber Forest Prod. in Swat, Pakistan (Bilal et al., 2020) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
racakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rajapalandu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
rajapriya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rajeshta	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
rajeshtha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
raktakanda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
ralu lunu	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
rata lunu	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
rathu lunu	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014) Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
raw onion	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
recanam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
red globe onion	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
red onion	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Fresh Med. Pl. in Singapore (Siew et al., 2014)
rochaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
scallion	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
sebúya	Other	Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)
shallot	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
shallot onion	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
shallots	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
sibuyas	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
sibuyas tagalog	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
siktha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sogan	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
soghan	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
spanish onion	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
spring onion	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
sukandaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tama-negi	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
tamanegi	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
tati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
titcanakantakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
titcanakantam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
titcanakkantakayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
titcanakkantam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
travenkayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
travulli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tukhm piyaz	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tukhm-i-piyaz	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tungulu sumu	Other	Trade in African Med. Pl., Belgium (van Andel & Fundiko, 2016)
turturumam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ukkiranamam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ullaagedde	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ullagaddi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ullegaddi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ulli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
ulli gaddalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
umbibawang merah	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
vallimatarai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vekuracakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vekuracakappuntu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vella-vengayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
vellai venkayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vellavengayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vengayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Med. Pl. for Respiratory Diseases (Ram et al., 2009) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
vengayan	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
venggayum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
venkaayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
venkan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
venkayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
venkayappuntu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vuligaddalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vulli gaddalu	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
vulligaddalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vullipayalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
white globe onion	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
y avaneshtha	Other	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
yangba	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
yavaneshtha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
yavanesta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yellow bermuda onion	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
yerragadda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yiravenkayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
z'oignon	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
zwibeln	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
zwiebel	Other	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024)
κρεμίδι	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
بصل	Other	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011) Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
لصب	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
پیاز	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
‫بصل‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
洋葱	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
红葱	Other	Fresh Med. Pl. in Singapore (Siew et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaf, Seed	Oil	Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
Leaf, Seed	Oil	Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
Bulb		Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Bulbs, Leaves		Pl. for Snake/Scorpion Bite, N Pakistan (Butt et al., 2015)
Bulb, Leaves		Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019)
Bulb		Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
Bulb		Med. Pl. in Balochistan, Pakistan (Bibi et al., 2014)
Bulb	Juice, Oil	WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Bulbs, Leaves		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
aerial part, bulb		Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
bulb, leaf		Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
Bulb		Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
leaves, bulbs		Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
seeds		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bulb		Guía de la Col. de Pl. Med. de PCTY (Méndez González et al., 2016)
Bulb, tunic		Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
Root, bulb, seed		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
Bulbs, leaves		Non-Timber Forest Prod. in Swat, Pakistan (Bilal et al., 2020)
Bulb		Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
bulbs, leaves		Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014)
bulb		Med. Pl. by Health Professionals, Mexico (Alonso-Castro et al., 2017)
bulb		Pl. Méd. Vendues dans le Marché, Bénin (Adomou et al., 2012)
root		Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
bulb	juice of bulb	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
bulbs	dry plant material	Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
bulbs	fresh bulbs	Trade in African Med. Pl., Belgium (van Andel & Fundiko, 2016)
bulbs papery skin		Fresh Med. Pl. in Singapore (Siew et al., 2014)
seed		Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
bulb		WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024)
bulbs		Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
bulb	fresh or dried bulb	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999)
bulb		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
bulb	oil	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
bulb	fresh bulb	Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
Bulbs		Med. Pl. of Myanmar (Myanmar Ministry of Health, 2008)
root		Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)
bulb		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
bulb	essential oil	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
Root (Bulb)		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 47 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Allium cepa var. aggregatum G.Don Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. 6: 27 (1827).
Cepa alba P.Renault Fl. Orne: 33 (1804).
Allium angolense Baker Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 262 (1878).
Allium aobanum Araki Hokuriku J. Bot. 4: 45 (1955).
Allium ascalonicum Anon.
Allium ascalonicum var. condensum Millán Darwiniana 10: 108 (1952).
Allium ascalonicum var. fertile Millán Darwiniana 10: 105 (1952).
Allium ascalonicum var. majus Gorrie Miller's Dict. Gard.: 140 (1834).
Allium ascalonicum f. rotterianum Voss ex J.Becker Handb. Gemüsebaues, ed. 2: 786 (1929).
Allium ascalonicum var. sterile Millán Darwiniana 10: 106 (1952).
Allium cepa var. anglicum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 300 (1866).
Allium cepa var. argenteum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 299 (1866).
Allium cepa var. bifolium Alef. Landw. Fl.: 300 (1866).
Allium cepa var. crinides Alef. Landw. Fl.: 299 (1866).
Allium cepa var. flandricum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 300 (1866).
Allium cepa var. globosum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 300 (1866).
Allium cepa var. hispanicum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 299 (1866).
Allium cepa var. jamesii Alef. Landw. Fl.: 300 (1866).
Allium cepa var. lisboanum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 299 (1866).
Allium cepa var. luteum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 299 (1866).
Allium cepa var. multiplicans L.H.Bailey Princip. Veg. Gard.: 316 (1901).
Allium cepa var. portanum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 300 (1866).
Allium cepa var. praecox Alef. Landw. Fl.: 299 (1866).
Allium cepa var. roseum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 300 (1866).
Allium cepa var. sanguineum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 300 (1866).
Allium cepa var. solaninum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 300 (1866).
Allium cepa var. tripolitanum Alef. Landw. Fl.: 300 (1866).
Allium cepa var. viviparum (Metzg.) Alef. Landw. Fl.: 301 (1866).
Allium cepa f. viviparum Metzg. Landw. Pfl.-K. 1: 257 (1841).
Allium cepaeum St.-Lag. Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon 7: 113 (1880).
Allium commune Noronha Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 5(4): 6 (1790), nom. nud.
Allium cumaria Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. Numer. List: n.° 5072 (1831), nom. nud.
Allium esculentum Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 235 (1796).
Allium napus Pall. ex Kunth Enum. Pl. 4: 395 (1843).
Allium nigritanum A.Chev. Études Fl. Afr. Centr. Franç. 1: 319 (1913), nom. nud.
Allium pauciflorum Willd. ex Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 4: 169 (1852).
Allium salota Dostál Folia Mus. Rerum Nat. Bohemiae Occid., Bot. 21: 17 (1984).
Ascalonicum sativum P.Renault Fl. Orne: 33 (1804).
Cepa esculenta Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 183 (1821 publ. 1822).
Cepa esculenta var. hispanica Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 184 (1821 publ. 1822).
Cepa esculenta var. ramosa Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 184 (1821 publ. 1822).
Cepa esculenta var. rubra Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 184 (1821 publ. 1822).
Cepa pallens P.Renault Fl. Orne: 33 (1804).
Cepa rubra P.Renault Fl. Orne: 33 (1804).
Cepa vulgaris Garsault Fig. Pl. Méd.: t. 207 (1764), opus utique oppr.
Kepa esculenta Raf. Fl. Tellur. 2: 20 (1837).
Porrum cepa (L.) Rchb. Fl. Germ. Excurs.: 110 (1830).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Alliu cepa linn	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
Allium cepa	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014) Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Indig. Knwlg. on Med. Flora, Pakistan (Shah et al., 2016) Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Med. Pl. in Russia & C Asia (Mamedov et al., 2004) Non-Timber Forest Prod. in Swat, Pakistan (Bilal et al., 2020) Pl. Méd. Vendues dans le Marché, Bénin (Adomou et al., 2012) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002) Trad. Med. of Bantu, Beni & Lubero (Kasika et al., 2014) Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
Allium cepa I.	Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001)
Allium cepa L.	Checklist of Korean Cult. Pl. (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Ethnobot. in W Granada Province, Spain (Benítez et al., 2010) Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008) Fresh Med. Pl. in Singapore (Siew et al., 2014) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Healing Potential of Med. Pl., Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2000) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indig. Knwlg. on Med. Flora, Pakistan (Shah et al., 2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999) Med. Herbs Israel (Said et al., 2002) Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996) Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014) Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013) Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017) Med. Pl. by Health Professionals, Mexico (Alonso-Castro et al., 2017) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019) Med. Pl. in Balochistan, Pakistan (Bibi et al., 2014) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sardinian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sicilian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017) Med. Pl. in the Medit.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) Pl. for Snake/Scorpion Bite, N Pakistan (Butt et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) Siddha Med. Pl. for Respiratory Diseases (Ram et al., 2009) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014) Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011) Trade in African Med. Pl., Belgium (van Andel & Fundiko, 2016) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 1 (WHO, 1999) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Allium cepa Lin.	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
Allium cepa Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med. Pl. of Myanmar (Myanmar Ministry of Health, 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Trop. Africa (2015) Sustainab. of Ethno-Med. Uses, N Pakistan (Adnan et al., 2006) Unani Pharmacop. India (2007-2008)
Allium cepa Linnaeus	ISO Catalogue (2009)
Allium cepa Linné	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)
Allium cepa cv. group Aggregatum	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
Allium cepa cv. group Cepa	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
Allium cepa var. aggregatum G. Don	Guía de la Col. de Pl. Med. de PCTY (Méndez González et al., 2016)
Cepa alba Renault	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

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