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Official name : Aspalathus cordata (L.) R. Dahlgren
Family : Fabaceae

1 reference(s) related to this plant

Reference HV 51
Author(s) : Van Wyk, B.-E.
Title : A review of Khoi-San and Cape Dutch medical ethnobotany. Journal of Ethnopharmacology , Volume 119, pp.331–341 (2008)
Symptoms : H(007), H(082)
Recipes : Leaf infusionsof Aspalathus cordata ;H(082) asthma; H(007) diuretic, (species that are mainly of historical interest) from Pappe (1847); (1850); (1857); from Kling (1923); reference to be found in HV 51_van Wyk
Region : South Africa
Country : South Africa ((from Namaqualand to the Eastern Cape)
Vernacular name : stekeltee (Africaans)