African Traditional Medicine: A Dictionary of Plant Use and Applications with Supplement : Search System for DiseasesThis book documents the traditional knowledge and use of African medicinal plants. In total more than 5,400 plants from south of the Sahara to the Cape are listed and over 16,300 medicinal applications with plant part, details on method of preparation and dosage. |
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Abdominal pain Abortifacient Aframomum melegueta Ake Assi Anthelmintic Aphrodisiac Baerts and Lehmann bark decoction bark is drunk bark powder boiled Bouquet and Debray Burkill Chhabra Coughs decoction is drunk decoction of leafy decoction of roots Diarrhea dressing dried Dysentery Dysmenorrhea enema extract is drunk Fever fresh leaves fruit Galactagogue Gelfand gonorrhea ground leaves Haerdi Headache Hutchings infusion is drunk Kerharo and Adam Koenen Kokwaro leaf decoction leaf extract leaf infusion leaf maceration leaf pulp leaf sap leafy twigs leaves are ground leaves is drunk liter of water maceration is drunk Malaria Oxytocic palm oil palm wine plant sap powder is eaten pulp is applied Purgative Rheumatism root bark root decoction root infusion root powder roots is drunk rubbed into scarifications sap is dropped sap is drunk scarifications seeds Snakebite stem bark Stomach pain twig bark twigs is drunk ulcers vapor bath Vergiat wash Watt and Breyer-Brandwijk whole plant Wounds