Our research in the next few weeks will be focused on African Plants with particular reference to Sudan and their medicinal uses and properties if known:
Family Name: Amaranthaceae
Botanical Name: Achyranthus aspera L.
Vernacular Name (Common Name): Aburukab (Sennar), Danab El Abilani or Fakhah or Na’ana’a (Meshra El Zeraf), Anawidik (Khartoum), Erg El Asda and Erg El Dam (Arab – Blue Nile); Daratniuwa (Hadendowa); Eilukwate (Nuba – Dilling).
Medicinal Use: Root chewed and is used as a styptic on cuts. Root juice is given to women as an Oxytocic, and to children who have fever. An infusion of the root is used as an emetic for pains in the chest not due to a cough.
Active Principle: Unknown.
