A Contribution to South African Materia Medica: Chiefly from Plants in Use Among the Natives

Acocanthera action administered Aloe ammonia animals anthrax applied Artemisia Afra bark beneath bite bitter Blepharis blood blood-poisoning blood-purifying boiled Bulbine calyx Capensis Cluytia cold colour corolla Crabbea cure daboia decoction disease dose dried drug Dutch dysentery effect efficacy employed Euphorbia fever flowers genus germs green healing horses i-Yeza inch long inflammation infusion injected isi-Dikili juice Kaffir Katberg King William's Town Klip Dagga known Lasiosiphon leaf leaf-paste leaflets leaves Leonotis lobed Lovedale malady medicinal plants Melianthus Melianthus comosus milk milt-ziek meat mode moist Monsonia native nerve ovate Padde Pelargonium petals pimples plant antidote poison preparation produce properties puff-adder pustule quantity Ranunculus Red dagga remedy remove root salicin scrofula shrub skin snake-bite snake-poison sore South African species stalk stem stomach strychnia Sutherlandia frutescens symptoms tape-worm Tembuland Teucrium tincture tonic tooth treatment ubu-Hlungu um-Tumana venomous snakes virtue whole plant Withania Withania somnifera wound yellow