African Healing Herbs

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African Healing Herbs

The plants listed are herbal remedies used in traditional African medicine.

Red Spinach

(a.k.a Chinese spinach, Spleen amaranth, Hon-toi-moi, Yin choy & Hsien tsai)
    ✦ improves kidney function
    ✦ cleans up blood after birth
    ✦ long-term treatment for anemia
    ✦ dysentery
    ✦ strengthens the hair roots

Asystasia

(a.k.a Chinese violet, coromandel & creeping foxglove)
    ✦ coughing & sore throats
    ✦ discomfort in the chest
    ✦ swelling & rheumatic joints
    ✦ nose-bleeds
    ✦ sore necks
    ✦ fevers
    ✦ epilepsy
    ✦ stomach aches
    ✦ heart pains
    ✦ ease childbirth
    ✦ snake bites

Lamb's Quarters

(a.k.a melde, goosefoot & fat hen)
    ✦ laxative
    ✦ heart tonic
    ✦ adding amino acids
    ✦ curving scurvy
    ✦ blood purifier
    ✦ improve appetite
    ✦ improve haemoglobin levels
    ✦ kill intestinal parasites
    ✦ keep digestive system healthy
    ✦ kidney stones
    ✦ dental health
    ✦ swellings

Devil's Claw

(a.k.a southern threecornerjack, double gee & three-cornered jack)
    ✦ arthritis
    ✦ muscle pain
    ✦ back pain
    ✦ tendinitis
    ✦ chest pain
    ✦ heart burn
    ✦ fever
    ✦ childbirth & menstrual problems
    ✦ allergic reactions
    ✦ loss of appetite
    ✦ kidney & bladder disease

Potato Weed

(a.k.a gallant soldier)
    ✦ wounds
    ✦ irons

Ground Cherry

(a.k.a cape gooseberry)
    ✦ abscesses
    ✦ coughs & sore throat
    ✦ fevers

Shepherd's Tree

(a.k.a holy tree)
    ✦ inflamed eyes
    ✦ piles
    ✦ epilepsy

Camel Thorn

    ✦ ear infections
    ✦ gonorrhoea
    ✦ headaches

African Common Poison Bush

Warning! This plant is extremely poisonous and must be treated with respect.
    ✦ toothaches
    ✦ colds
    ✦ anthrax
    ✦ tapeworms
    ✦ poison