Agriculture Reference
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cited in divorce proceedings in Western countries. The drugs listed next are employed alone or in a
mixture with other plants or animal parts to cure sterility in the female:
Acacia brevispica
Euphorbia tirucalli
Aeschynomene nyassana
Fuerstia africana
Afrosersalisia kaessneri
Hypericum roeperanum
Anisotes dumosus
Leptoderris spp.
Azanza garckeana
Maesa lanceolata
Cyathula uncinulata
Olea hochstetter
Danais xanthorrhoea
Polygala spp.
Echinops amplexicaulis
Yitex mombassae
DIaBEtES
It seems that the recognition of diabetes as a disease was fairly recent in most African societ-
ies. In some communities, there is no vernacular name for diabetes, and treatment is practically
unknown. The few native doctors who treat this disease sometimes even rely on some evidence
of glucosuria for the diagnosis, such as whether ants gather at a spot where the individual passed
urine. They can manage both juvenile and maturity-onset diabetes. They have proved remarkably
competent in handling insulin-dependent diabetics and cases with severe ketoses. Most of the plants
listed next have been experimentally verified and are indeed potent. It is significant, therefore, that a
peptide designated as P-insulin has been reported from
Momordica
, one of the plants listed.
Abelmoschus esculentus
Indigofera tinctoria
Achyranthes aspera
Ipomomea aquatic
Aeginetia indica
Irvingia gabonensis
Alisma plantago
Lagerstroemia speciosa
Allium cepa
Leucaena leucocephalia
Aloe barbadensis
Lycium africana
Alstonia macrophylla
Medicago sativa
Andrographis paniculata
Morinda citrifolia
Aristolochia spp.
Mormodica spp.
Balanites aegyptiaca
Morus spp.
Beta vulgaris
Mucuna pruriens
Biophytum sensitivum
Ocimum gratissimum
Brassica napiformis
Myrtus communis
Bridelia ferruginea
Polygonatum humile
Calystegia spp.
Psidium spp
Campis grandijlora
Solanum spp.
Carica papaya
Sphenocentrum jollyanum
Catharanthus loseus
Stachyurus spp.
Cocos nucifera
Syzygium aromaticum
Citrullus lanata
Tamarindus indica
Combretum micranthum
Tetrapanax papyrifer
Costus afer
Tetrapleura tetraptera
Curcuma longa
Tinospora cordifolia
Dioscorea dumetorum
Vernonia amygdalina
Garcinia kola
Zingiber officinale
Gongronema latifolia
Zygophyllum cornutum
