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Official name :
Dioscorea dregeana (Kunth) T.Durand & Schinz
Family :
Dioscoreaceae
6 reference(s) related to this plant
Reference HK 26
Author(s) :
Kelmanson, J.E., A.K. Jäger & J. van Staden
Title :
Zulu medicinal plants with antibacterial activity.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Volume 69, pp. 241- 246, (2000)
Symptoms :
H(004)
Recipes :
H(004), water heated in the scooped out tuber is used to treat sores and wounds, RNS.
Region :
South Africa
Country :
South Africa
Vernacular name :
ilabatheka (Zulu)
Reference HS 17
Author(s) :
Stafford, G.I., P.D. Pedersen, A.K. Jäger, J. Van Staden
Title :
Monoamine oxidase inhibition by southern African traditional medicinal plants.
South African Journal of Botany, Volume 73, pp. 384 - 390, (2007)
Symptoms :
H(201)
Recipes :
H(201), Zulu healers use the tuber of Dioscorea dregeana to treat hysteria, convulsion and epilepsy
Region :
South Africa
Country :
South Africa
Vernacular name :
not communicated by the authors
Reference HS 51
Author(s) :
Sobiecki, J.F.
Title :
A review of plants used in divination in southern Africa and their psychoactive effects
Southern African Humanities, Vol. 20 , Pages 333–351, December, 2008 Pietermaritzburg
Symptoms :
H(099), H(167z)
Recipes :
H(167z) psychoactive effects A bulb decoction of Dioscorea dregeana is combined with the hallucinogen Boophone distichain a mixture that is used to aid divination in South Africa
H(099), Decoctions of the tuber have numerous other psychoactive uses, for example, in treating hysteria and insanity Zulu
H(099), Decoctions of the tuber have numerous other psychoactive uses, for example, in treating hysteria and insanity Zulu
Region :
Southern Africa
Country :
South Africa
Vernacular name :
isidakwa/ingcolo/ilabatheka (Zulu)
Reference VK 26
Author(s) :
Kelmanson, J.E., A.K. Jäger & J. van Staden
Title :
Zulu medicinal plants with antibacterial activity.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Volume 69, pp. 241- 246, (2000)
Symptoms :
V(004)
Recipes :
V(004), water heated in the scooped out tuber is used to treat sores and wounds, RNS.
Region :
South Africa
Country :
South Africa
Vernacular name :
ilabatheka (Zulu)
Reference VW 01
Author(s) :
Watt, J.M., Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G.
Title :
The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa.E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., Edinburg and London, Second edition, 1457 p., (1962) (partially from the references VM 18, HV 09, HC 26, HL 22, HS 32)
Symptoms :
V(137)
Recipes :
V(004) wounds and V(137) sores in animals by Xhosa, water heated in scooped out tuber of Dioscorea dregeana, RNS.
Region :
South Africa
Country :
South Africa
Vernacular name :
not registered
Reference VW 01
Author(s) :
Watt, J.M., Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G.
Title :
The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa.E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., Edinburg and London, Second edition, 1457 p., (1962) (partially from the references VM 18, HV 09, HC 26, HL 22, HS 32)
Symptoms :
H(004), H(137)
Recipes :
H(004) wounds and H(137) sores in humans by Xhosa, water heated in scooped out tuber of Dioscorea dregeana, RNS.
Region :
South Africa
Country :
South Africa
Vernacular name :
not registered