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Cuti-cuti is a traditional Peruvian herbal remedy used to treat diabetes and liver ailments. Leaves from one of several Andean ferns are brewed into a tea to be drunk by the patient.

Plant material
Several cheilanthoid ferns may be used in the preparation of cuti-cuti. These include Argyrochosma nivea, Cheilanthes pruinata,, Cheilanthes scariosa, Myriopteris aurea (syn. Cheilanthes bonariensis), Myriopteris myriophylla and Pellaea ternifolia.

From La Victoria in Lima: Per this dissertation: http://cybertesis.unmsm.edu.pe/bitstream/handle/20.500.12672/4110/Cabrera_mj.pdf?sequence=1
 * A. nivea = "cuti cuti hembra"
 * C. pruinata = "cuti cuti macho"
 * C. scariosa = "cuti cuti"

Good review: http://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/viewFile/1835/995

A 2013 study found both Argyrochosma nivea and Cheilanthes bonariensis sold interchangeably in Lima as "cuti-cuti".

Brack Egg [60], whole of Peru, mentions Cheilanthes bonariensis (Willd.) Proctor (Cuti Cuti) as febrifuge Brack Egg A: Dictionario enciclopedico de plantas utiles del Peru. 1999, Cusco: CBC

Our own previous studies [33, 61–70] all from Northern Peru, list Pellaea ternifolia C. Chr. (Cuti Cuti, Cute Cute, Cuticuti, Cute-Cute Amarillo, Cuti Cuti Amarillo) as used for diabetes and liver, Bussmann RW, Glenn A: Peruvian medicinal plants for the treatment of liver and gallbladder ailments. Arnaldoa. 2010, 17 (2): 243-253.

Notholaena nivea (Poir.) Desv. (Doradilla) and Pellaea ternifolia C. Chr. (Cuti Cuti, Cuti Cuti amarillo) against diabetes

Cuti-cuti is a Quechua name for P. ternifolia. In northern Peru, it was used to treat diabetes and liver ailments. Fresh fern leaves were boiled in water at a concentration of 5 grams per liter, and this decoction was drunk three times daily for one week.

P. ternifolia sold in Chiclayo, Peru as cuti-cuti: From Sierra to Coast: Tracing the supply of medicinal plants in Northern Peru–A plant collector's tale Z Revene, RW Bussmann… - Ethnobotany Research …, 2008

A. nivea (as N. nivea) sold in 1988-9 in Huancabamba as "doradilla" or "cuti-cuti", decoction said to be an "intestinal antiinfective". M. myriophylla (as C. myriophylla) called "cuti-cuti macho", decoction supposed a sudorific and febrifuge.