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Author(s) : Tisserant, ( R.P.) Ch.

Title : Dictionnaire Banda-Français Trav. et Mém. de l'Inst. d'Ethn., vol. XIV, 611 P., Paris, (1931)à partir de HT 15

Reference HT 17 has information about 3 plants :

Official name : Euphorbia hirta L.

Family : Euphorbiaceae

Synonyms : Euphorbia pilulifera var. procumbens Boiss. , Euphorbia hirta var. procumbens Br. , Chamaesyce hirta (L.) Millsp.

Symptoms : H(002x), H(161), H(175)

Recipes : H(002x), to much milk roots barks, cataplasm
H(161) + H(175), roots barks, cataplasm

Region : Central Africa

Country : Central African Republic (Lobaye region, Oubangi-Chari)

Vernacular name : ngonderamango

Official name : Manihot esculenta Crantz

Family : Euphorbiaceae

Synonyms : Manihot utilissima Pohl

Symptoms : H(013), H(018), H(175), H(193)

Recipes : H(013) + H(175) + H(193), pounded leaves in cataplasm
H(018), pounded leaves in cataplasm on the fore head

Region : Central Africa

Country : Central African Republic (Lobaye region, Oubangi-Chari)

Vernacular name : dowo

Official name : Paullinia pinnata L.

Family : Sapindaceae

Symptoms : H(014), H(175)

Recipes : H(014) + H(175) skin disease called "kabada", leaves, local application

Region : Central Africa

Country : Central African Republic (Lobaye region, Oubangi-Chari)

Vernacular name : kelengwagwa (Banda)