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Official name : Khaya sp.

Family : Meliaceae

2 reference(s) related to this plant

Reference HK 70

Author(s) : Komlaga, G., C.Agyare, R. Akosua Dickson, M. L. Kwao Mensah, K. Annan, P.M. Loiseau, P.Champy

Title : Medicinal plants and finished marketed herbal products used in the treatment of malaria in the Ashanti region, Ghana Journal of Ethnopharmacology 172, 333–346, (2015)

Symptoms : H(051)

Recipes : H(051) paludism, leaves or stem bark of Zanthoxylum leprieurii with Khaya spp. stem bark, decoction, VO.

Region : East Africa

Country : Ghana (Ashanti region)

Vernacular name : not communicated by the authors

Reference VF 05

Author(s) : Fison, T.

Title : Some ethnoveterinary information from South Sudan Undated document http://www.vetwork.org.uk/evkfison.pdf

Symptoms : V(039)

Recipes : Vb(039) lice (nyok), apply mixture of cow urine and infusion with unspecified part of a tree called "tiit" (Khaya sp.) and apply topically.(Dinka)
Vb(039) fleas (nyaliny),) pound up "tiit" (Khaya sp.) with cow urine and apply topically.(Dinka)

Region : East Africa

Country : South-Soudan (Dinka zone)

Vernacular name : tiit

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