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e powdered and taken as a snuff for treating headaches. The bark is, furthermore,<br />
used to treat bronchitis in Maputo. The Vhavenda use the leaves and roots for<br />
stomachache, toothache, dysentery, haemmorhoids and as purgatives; and roots for<br />
improving memory and for inflammation <strong>of</strong> the eyes (Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk,<br />
1962).<br />
Data from ethnobotanical survey<br />
The bark is boiled and the resulting water is prepared as an enema to be taken for<br />
sores on the body (Gumede 2007, pers. comm.).<br />
Chemical content<br />
Its pods contain 3.5% <strong>of</strong> tannin. Large amounts <strong>of</strong> histamine (+2 mg/g dry tissue)<br />
were found in the bark, roots, trunk and branches. Acetylhistamine and imidazole<br />
acetic acid and other minor imidazole compounds were also detected in the bark<br />
(Hutchings et.al. 1996).<br />
3.2.4 Scientific name : Baccharoides adoensis (= Vernonia adoensis) Isawumi,<br />
Zulu name : Inyathelo<br />
El-Ghazaly & B. Nord<br />
Common name : The English name could not be found.<br />
Figure 3.6 A flowering Baccharoides adoensis.<br />
(www.sntc.org.sz/flora/photo.asp?phid=z329)<br />
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