Bantu folk lore (medical and general) / by Matthew L. Hewat, M.D.

  • Hewat, Matthew L.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: Bantu folk lore (medical and general) / by Matthew L. Hewat, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    c. The powdered root of I-qwili (Alepidea amatymbica) is also used for colic or abdo- minal pain, a teaspoonful to a dose. In larger doses this drug is an emetic and purgative, in smaller a stomachic. d. Um-bangandlela (Heteromorpha arbores- cens) is also used in infusion. Purgatives are used and sometimes injections. This is one of the diseases which lend them- selves so well to the treatment of the Amagqira Awokuqubula or doctors who use massage and sucking accompanied by incantations, and profess to produce, in the form of a lizard, frog, or something, the cause of the disease. The Awobulongo, cow-dung doctors are also successful in this illness. Stitch. Ili-hlaba is treated by rubbing the part and administering infusions of the root of the lli-bulawa (Sebcea crassulaefolia), a bitter astringent used also in dysentery and colic. Vomiting. In-hlanzo, caused by bewitch- ment or poisoning is arrested by copious draughts of hot water followed by purgatives.