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Official name : Acalypha sp.

Family : Euphorbiaceae

2 reference(s) related to this plant

Reference HB 50

Author(s) : Bruschi, P., , M. Morganti, M. Mancini, M. A. Signorini

Title : Traditional healers and laypeople: A qualitative and quantitative approach to local knowledge on medicinal plants in Muda (Mozambique) Journal of Ethnopharmacology 138, 543– 563, (2011) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378874111007276

Symptoms : H(026), H(033)

Recipes : H(026) menstrual cycle troubles, roots of "mpama " = Acalypha sp. infusion, VO.
H(033) female infertility, roots infusion, VO.

Region : East Africa

Country : Mozambique (Muda)

Vernacular name : mpama (Chindau)

Reference VB 26M

Author(s) : Bonnefoux, Benedicto Marius (R.P.)

Title : Plantes médicinales du Hufla. Manuscrits n° 1 et n°2 (Congrégation do Espirito Santo), 1885-1937. Registrated by Bossard, E. in ref. HB 25M

Symptoms : V(008)

Recipes : Vb(008) epidemic dysentery, roots of ndeya (Acalypha sp) of pondololua (Steganotaenia araliacea) + barks and leaves of undetermined species umbungululu, munyime, tengula, pounded in H2O, VO.

Region : West Africa

Country : Angola (regions of Hufla)

Vernacular name : (o) ndeya (Nyaneka)

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