Medicinal plants in Mawana
Group 4 

Research  / Along the bushes

OUR RESEARCH

• Aspalathus Linearis

-Leaves and twigs can be used as rooibos tea

-Rooibos tea is also popular as a health tea because it contains no harmful stimulation and it totally devoid of caffeine.

• Tulbaghia Violacca

-bulbs and leaves are used as wild garlic that  is traditionally used for fever and cold, but also for asthma and tuberculosis

-Decoction are administered as enemas for stomach problem

-The leaves are used to treat cancer of the oesophagus.

-The leaves may be eaten as vegetables.

• Aloe Ferox

-It is used as a laxative medicine

-The leaves and roots are boiled in water and are taken as a laxative

-It is also arthritis, eczema, conjunctivitis, hypertension and stress.

• Ruta Graveolens

-Leaf infusions are taken for fever and also for convulsion as fits in children and for epilepsy and hysteria

-Bruised leaves are used as a treatment against toothache and earache, while decoction have been used to ease child birth

-Bruised leaves may be placed on a tooth and in the ears to alleviate pain.

-The leaves and twigs are harvested

ALONG THE BUSHES

• Large fever berry(motsebe)

-Bark (grind the bark finely pour in the river to paralyse fish) and then catch them

-Water from boiled leaves can treat malaria

• Lead wood(motswiri)

-Take the leaves and boil them then drink

-It helps headache and flu

-No allocated dosage

-It can be used for all the ages

-You can find them in the forest

-You burn the bark and the ashes can be used as toothpaste

• Sour Palm(Moretologa)    

-It helps heartburn, dry the roots and boil it then you take the other roots and grind it. You stand on the door before sunrise and bath with it and eat it to heal heartburn

-You boil the dry leaves and it helps fever.

• Brand bush

-Used as a toothbrush

-You can make a straw out of it

-The stems can be used in fire-making

-The stems can also be used in meetings for discipline

-Fruits are edible

-Fruits can also make alcohol (traditional)

• Umbrella Thorn Acacia Torticis(Mosu)

-Bark is most preferred by elephants

-Leaves high in protein and normally browsed by animals so it has sharp thorns which prevent it from being over-browsed

-It has nitrogen fixing bacteria in its roots which helps adding nutrients back in soil

• Baobab Tree

-The tree is 5000 years old

-It is a succulent

-Fruits of the tree are eatable

-Powder from fruit can be used as a substitute for  yeast (It contain cream of tartar)

-Leaves when fresh can be eaten as Spanish

-Roots can be used as dye.

-Seeds when grind can be used as substitute for coffee.