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Official name :
Bulbine alooides (L.) Willd.
Family :
Asphodelaceae
6 reference(s) related to this plant
Reference HD 34
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, sap of Bulbine alooides is used internally as a purgative and externally, applied directly to the skin, to treat shingles and thrush. Healers reported that it is a blood purifier attributable to the reddish colour of the sap.
Region :
South Africa
Country :
South Africa (Western Cape, Eastern Cape)
Vernacular name :
rooiwater (Red water)
Reference HK 44
Author(s) :
Kling, H.
Title :
Die Sieketrooster. Van de Sandt de Villiers, Cape Town. (1923)
From references HV 51, HS 32
Symptoms :
H(109), H(191)
Recipes :
H(109) lumbago, H(191) “blood purifier”, tuber of Bulbine alooides
Region :
South Africa
Country :
South Africa (Cape region )
Vernacular name :
rooiwortel (Cape Dutch language)
Reference HS 19
Author(s) :
Smith ,A.
Title :
A Contribution to the South African materia medica, 2nd ed.
Lovedale,South Africa. (1895.)
From reference HV 51
Symptoms :
H(109), H(191)
Recipes :
H(109) lumbago, H(191) “blood purifier”, tuber of Bulbine alooides
Region :
South Africa
Country :
South Africa (Cape region )
Vernacular name :
rooiwortel (Cape Dutch language)
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(109), H(191)
Recipes :
Tuber of Bulbine alooides; used as H(191) “blood purifier”; H(109) lumbago (South African plant with a wide distribution that is also traditionally used in the Sotho and Nguni cultures) from Smith (1895) reference to be found in HV 51_van Wyk
Region :
South Africa
Country :
South Africa ((from Namaqualand
to the Eastern Cape)
Vernacular name :
rooiwortel (Africaans)
Reference VD 17
Author(s) :
Dold, A.P. & M.L. Cocks
Title :
Traditional veterinary medicine in the Alice district of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
South African Journal of Science 97 , 375–379. (2001)
Symptoms :
V(015)
Recipes :
Vb(015) a decoction of the root is used to treat redwater (amanzabomvu) in cattle
Region :
South Africa
Country :
South Africa (Alice district)
Vernacular name :
irooiwater
Reference VW 01
Author(s) :
Watt, J.M., Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G.
Title :
The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa.E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., Edinburg and London, Second edition, 1457 p., (1962) (partially from the references VM 18, HV 09, HC 26, HL 22, HS 32)
Symptoms :
H(109), H(191)
Recipes :
H(109) lumbago, H(191) “blood purifier”, tuber of Bulbine alooides (registered from reference HR 50)
Region :
South Africa
Country :
South Africa (Cape region )
Vernacular name :
rooiwortel (Cape Dutch language)