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Reference : VB 2k
Author(s) :
Bebawi, Faiz Faris & Lars Neugebohrn
Title :
A review of plants of Northern Sudan with special reference to their uses.
Published by: Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Postfach 5180, D-6236 Eschborn, Federal Republic of Germany, 296 p., (1991)Distributed by: D-6101 Rossdorf, Federal Republic of Germany.
Reference VB 2k has information about 8 plants :
Aerva javanica (Burm. f.) Juss. ex Schult.
Official name :
Aerva javanica (Burm. f.) Juss. ex Schult.
Family :
Amaranthaceae
Synonyms :
Aerva persica (Burm. f.) Merr.
Symptoms :
V(000)
Recipes :
Vch(000), Veq(000), the plant is used medicinally for horses and camels.
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Sudan
Vernacular name :
not registered
Aster crispus Forssk.
Official name :
Aster crispus Forssk.
Family :
Asteraceae
Symptoms :
V(003)
Recipes :
Vb(003), the dried plant is applied to bruises on cattle
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Sudan
Vernacular name :
not registered
Bauhinia rufescens Lam.
Official name :
Bauhinia rufescens Lam.
Family :
Fabaceae
Synonyms :
Piliostigma rufescens (Lam.) Benth.
Symptoms :
V(095)
Recipes :
V(095), ONS., RNS.
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Sudan
Vernacular name :
kulkul.
Cissus quadrangularis L.
Official name :
Cissus quadrangularis L.
Family :
Vitaceae
Synonyms :
Vitis quadrangularis (L.) Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
Symptoms :
V(137)
Recipes :
Vch(137), the juice is used by camel-men to cleanse and heal saddle-galls, and other sores of camels
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Sudan
Vernacular name :
not registered
Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad.
Official name :
Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad.
Family :
Cucurbitaceae
Synonyms :
Cucumis colocynthis L.
,
Colocynthis vulgaris Schrad.
Symptoms :
V(006), V(095)
Recipes :
Vch(006), Vch(095), fruits edible by camels; the pulp is extracted and exported; is possesses powerful cathartic properties and ist widely used in medicine; a tar js obtained from.~ the fruit with which water-bags are dressed in order to prevent camels from tearing, them open; the powdered pulp, either alone or mixed with black pepper is used as a preventative against the clothes moth
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Sudan
Vernacular name :
not registered
Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth.
Official name :
Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth.
Family :
Bignoniaceae
Symptoms :
V(004)
Recipes :
V(004), the ashes of the fruit are considered an efficient substilute for boracic powder for cleaning wounds of animaIs
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Sudan
Vernacular name :
um shutur.
Portulaca oleracea L.
Official name :
Portulaca oleracea L.
Family :
Portulacaceae
Symptoms :
V(123)
Recipes :
Vo(123), when sheep graze on it for some weeks then it is poisonous ; the poisonous principle is oxalate and nitrate;
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Sudan
Vernacular name :
not registered
Striga senegalensis Benth.
Official name :
Striga senegalensis Benth.
Family :
Orobanchaceae
Synonyms :
Striga hermontheca (Del.) Benth.
Symptoms :
V(050)
Recipes :
Vb(050), boiled extracts of striga relieves bloat in cattle
Region :
East Africa
Country :
Sudan
Vernacular name :
not registered
