Another method sometimes adopted is to use the Cluytia alone. Administer an infusion, and apply a soft paste of the leaves all over the affected part.
Other drugs used are:—a Matricaria nigellœfolia, (Um-hlonyane womlambo) (river wormwood) used in the same way as the Cluytia.
b Xanthoxylon Capense, (um-Nungumabele) (wild cardamon), mostly taken as a condiment with the anthractuous beef to disinfect it.
c Teucrium Africanum (Ubu-hlungu benyushu) same as Xanthoxylon.
d Solanum nigrum, (Umsobo) and
e Lippia asperifolia, (in-Zinziniba).
These two last are risky and poisonous.
Malaria. Inkatazi tonizimba, a disease sent by dissatisfied ancestors.
Treatment. Sacrifices, singing, and dancing are practised round the sick to satisfy the ancestors.
Vomitives and purgatives are used and by some the Lasiosiphon Meisneri, one of the [[58]]“Snakebite” drugs is used, the dose being ½ oz. of the dried root taken as an infusion.