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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)
Reference VM 12 has information about 8 plants :
Adenium multiflorum Klotzsch
Official name :
Adenium multiflorum Klotzsch
Family :
Apocynaceae
Synonyms :
Adenium obesum (Forssk.) Roemer & Schultes var. multiflorum
Symptoms :
V(039)
Recipes :
Vch(039), pounded leaves, infusion, external use
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Kenya (Turkana)
Vernacular name :
egeles
Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T.Aiton
Official name :
Calotropis procera (Aiton) W.T.Aiton
Family :
Apocynaceae
Synonyms :
Asclepias procera Aiton
Symptoms :
V(037)
Recipes :
Vch(037), roots, infusion, VO.
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Kenya (Turkana)
Vernacular name :
etesuro
Celosia stuhlmanniana Schinz
Official name :
Celosia stuhlmanniana Schinz
Family :
Amaranthaceae
Symptoms :
V(039)
Recipes :
Vch(039), pounded leaves, infusion, external use
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Kenya (Turkana)
Vernacular name :
amarias
Cissus quadrangularis L.
Official name :
Cissus quadrangularis L.
Family :
Vitaceae
Synonyms :
Vitis quadrangularis (L.) Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
Symptoms :
V(008)
Recipes :
Vb(008) calf, infusion, RNS.
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Kenya (Turkana)
Vernacular name :
not registered
Commicarpus plumbagineus (Cav.) Standley
Official name :
Commicarpus plumbagineus (Cav.) Standley
Family :
Nyctaginaceae
Symptoms :
V(039)
Recipes :
Vch(039), whole plant, infusion, external use
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Kenya (Turkana)
Vernacular name :
lokucin, losurulaich
Jasminum fluminense Vell.
Official name :
Jasminum fluminense Vell.
Family :
Oleaceae
Symptoms :
V(039)
Recipes :
Vch(039), fruit powder + H2O, external use
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Kenya (Turkana)
Vernacular name :
epelech
Pseudosopubia hildebrandtii (Vatke) Engl.
Official name :
Pseudosopubia hildebrandtii (Vatke) Engl.
Family :
Scrophulariaceae
Symptoms :
V(029)
Recipes :
Vb(029), Vch(029) , plant attached to the tail of the cow or the female camel which refuses his baby
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Kenya (Turkana)
Vernacular name :
not registered
Pterodiscus ruspolii Engl.
Official name :
Pterodiscus ruspolii Engl.
Family :
Pedialiaceae
Symptoms :
V(030)
Recipes :
Vb(030), ONS., infusion, VO.
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Kenya (Turkana)
Vernacular name :
not registered
