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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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