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: Umbelliferae
Botanical Name: Ammi visnaga Lam.
Vernacular Name: Khella (Arab); Toothpick plant.
Medicinal Use: The fruit is used for colic, renal and intestinal problems.
Active Principle: Glucoside, Khellin and Visnagin.
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: Digera alternifolia (L.) Aschers
Vernacular Name: Harayrah, Nuarah, Bebit, Lablab Ahmar (Blue Nile Province) & Asfar (Arab – Meshra El Zeraf); Anmal (Dinka – Meshra El Zeraf); Kilumtum (Shilluk – Meshra El Zeraf).
Medicinal Use: The leaves are used to cure indigestion.
Active Principle: Unknown
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: Celosia argentea L.
Vernacular Name: Danab El Keleb & Sheiba (Arab – Meshra El Zeraf).
Medicinal Use: The seeds are a remedy for diarrhea and Roundworm – Astringent.
Active Principle: Kosotoxin and unclassified principles.
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.
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 : Aizoaceae
Botanical Name: Trianthema pentandra L.
Vernacular Name (Common Name): Rabaa & Rabah (Arab); Lom (Dinka – Kenissa).
Medicinal Use: The plant is used as an astringent in abdominal diseases. The Sudanese mix one spoonful of pounded roots with one rotl (less than or equal to 500 ml) of Marissa and use the mixture as a remedy for gonorrhea, the doses being taken for three days.
Active Principle: Unknown.
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