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Official name :
Commicarpus plumbagineus (Cav.) Standley
Family :
Nyctaginaceae
5 reference(s) related to this plant
Reference HH 6k
Author(s) :
Heine, B. & M. Brenzinger
Title :
Plant concepts and plant use .An ethnobotanical survey of the semi-arid and arid lands of East Africa.Part 4: Plant of the Borana (Ethiopia and Kenya)296 p., Band 9 (1988)
Kolner Beiträge zur Entwicklungsländerforschung / Cologne Development StudiesVerlag breitenbach Publishers, Saarbrücken, Fort Lauderdale
Symptoms :
H(004), H(111)
Recipes :
H(111), burns; grind leaves, apply to burn. H(004), wounds; burn stem, apply
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Ethiopia & Kenya
Vernacular name :
not registered
Reference HL 15
Author(s) :
Lulekal, E., E. Kelbessa, T. Bekele, H. Yineger
Title :
An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Mana Angetu District, southeastern Ethiopia.
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine , Volume 4 : 10 (2008)
http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/4/1/10
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Additional file
Symptoms :
H(137)
Recipes :
H(137) stabbing pain (woransa), dried roots of Commicarpus plumbagineus, crush boil and VO.
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Southeastern Ethiopia (Mana Angetu District)
Vernacular name :
sifa (Afaan Oromo)
Reference VC 04
Author(s) :
Collectif
Title :
Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, Spermatophytes.
Publications I.N.E.A.C., Bruxelles, Vol. I à VII et IX, (1948 - 1960)
Symptoms :
V(006)
Recipes :
Vc(006), leaves,decoction, VO.
Region :
Central Africa
Country :
Congo (Democratic republic) (ex. Zaïre)
Vernacular name :
dahokera(Kihunde), imishonga (Kinyaruanda)
Reference VG 19
Author(s) :
Giday, M.
Title :
An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the Zay people in Ethiopia.
CBM:s Skriftserie 3, pp. 81 - 99, Uppsala 2001
Symptoms :
V(014)
Recipes :
Vb(014) skin disease, aerian part of Commicarpus plumbagineus , RNS., local application
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Ethiopia (Zay people; Islands of lake Ziway)
Vernacular name :
gale, qoricha simbira (Oromo)
Reference VM 12
Author(s) :
Morgan, W.T.W.
Title :
Ethnobotany of the Turkana: Use of plants by a pastoral people and their livestock in Kenya.
Economic botany, 35, 1, 96 - 130, (1981)
Symptoms :
V(039)
Recipes :
Vch(039), whole plant, infusion, external use
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Kenya (Turkana)
Vernacular name :
lokucin, losurulaich