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6 references related to the following plant

Official name: Schefflera volkensii (Engl.) Harms
Family: Araliaceae
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Reference HB 48
Author: Bussmann Rainer, W., P.Swartzinsky, W. Aserat & P.Evangelista
Title: Plant use in Odo-Bulu and Demaro, Bale Region, Ethiopia. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine , 7:28 (2011)
Symptoms: V(095)
Recipes: Vb(095) plant of Schefflera volkensii eaten by cattle and colobus monkeys.
Region: East Africa
Country: Ethiopia (Odo-Bulu and Demaro, Bale Mountains Region)
Vernacular name: ansha

Reference HG 02
Author: Glover, P.E., J. Stewart & M.D. Gwynne
Title: Masai and Kipsigis notes on East african plants, Part III - Medicinal uses of plants. East African agricultural and forestry journal, 32, 2, 200 - 207, (1966)
Symptoms: H(037), H(108)
Recipes: H(108) cold and H(037) coughs, gum of Schefflera volkens ground up with honey, VO.
Region: East Africa
Country: Kenya
Vernacular name: not registered

Reference HK 13
Author: Kokwaro, J.O.
Title: Medicinal plants of East Africa. East african literature bureau, Kampala, Nairobi, Dar Es Salaam, 368 p., (1976)
Symptoms: H(037), H(108)
Recipes: H(037) bronchitis, gum, RNS
H(108) cold, gum , RNS
Region: East Africa
Country: Kenya
Vernacular name: jinet (Mandi), tinet (Kipsigis)

Reference HL 01
Author: Lindsay, R.S. & F.N. Hepper
Title: Medicinal plants of Marakwet Kenya.Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, United Kingdom, 49 p., (1978)
Symptoms: H(186)
Recipes: H(186), resin in H2O of Schefflera volkensii , VO. + honey, RNS.
Region: East Africa
Country: Kenya
Vernacular name: not registered

Reference HO 17
Author: Okello, S.V., Nyunja R.O., Netondo G.W. & Onyango J.C.
Title: Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by Sabaot of Mt. Elgon Kenya African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines Volume 7, No. 1, pp 1-10 (2010)
Symptoms: H(003), H(156)
Recipes: H(003) swollen bodies, H(156) whooping-cough, sap of Schefflera volkensii , RNS. (Probably VO.)
Region: East Africa
Country: Kenya (Mont Elgon region)
Vernacular name: kwelet (Sabaot)

Reference VG 1k
Author: Gachathi, F.N.
Title: Kikuyu botanical dictionary of plant names and uses. Publication supported by GTZ , (1989)The print shop, P.O. Box 24576, Nairobi.
Symptoms: V(014), V(037)
Recipes: Vc(014), Vo(014), barks, skin disease of goats and sheeps, RNS.
Vb(037), stems, RNS.
Region: East Africa
Country: Kenya
Vernacular name: not registered