E. CIRCULATORY SYSTEM.
Heart Disease, Aneurysm are not specially recognised as such.
Mothers Marks. “Isifo” are looked upon as the result of some item in the ceremony of the “Intonjane” (menstruation ceremony), or marriage ceremony of the mother having been omitted. The mother is often sent back to the parents, who have to return the lobola (price of a wife paid by the husband to the parents); or the child is weaned at once, doctored by incantations, etc., the while the mother confesses her sins before the people. No local treatment [[66]]is adopted but should the mark be conspicuous and persist, the infant during life is looked upon as one specially marked out by the ancestral spirits and may in time become a great sorcerer (Isanuse).
A curious practice is sometimes carried out with the idea of preventing this viz.: the periodical use of severe purging by the mother by means of the tuberous root of the Um-Nyangi (Phytolacca stricta).
Varicose Veins. Umtambo omkulu wyazi occur usually in pregnant women, and are treated by other women by cupping, sometimes by incision or rubbing, or cold affusions.
F. SKIN DISEASES.
Itch. Uku-rauzela is not usually distinguished from intolerable itching (Um-babane) and both are treated by washing the parts and rubbing in animal fats; or applying Iyeza lomlambo, a parisiticide; or umtuma, one of the solanums of similar action.
| Eczema. | Um solo or Um-lambo. |
| Psoriasis. | Umkondo. |
| Leprosy. | In gquinda. |
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