Author(s) :
Denver D., T. Blouws, O. Aboyade, D. Gibson, J. De Jong, C Van t' Klooster, G. Hughes
Title :
Traditional health practitioners' perceptions, herbal treatment and management of HIV and related opportunistic infections.
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 10:77 (2014)
doi:10.1186/1746-4269-10-77
Symptoms :
H(100), H(037), H(104), H(182)
Recipes :
H(100) HIV and opportunistic infections, leaves of Lessertia frutescens are used in a remedy to treat HIV as well as for HIV-tuberculosis co-infection. The plant is also used to treat people with suspected cancer.
H(091) healers use it as a blood-purifier, an all-purpose tonic, anti-depressant and for respiratory conditions associated with tuberculosis such as asthma, bronchitis, influenza, wasting and bronchitis.
Region :
South Africa
Country :
South Africa (Western Cape, Eastern Cape)
Vernacular name :
kankerbossie (afrikaans,); uNwele (Zulu)