In larger doses this drug is an emetic and purgative, in smaller a stomachic.
d. Um-bangandlela (Heteromorpha arborescens) is also used in infusion.
Purgatives are used and sometimes injections. This is one of the diseases which lend themselves so well to the treatment of the Amagqira Awokuqubula or doctors who use massage and sucking accompanied by incantations, and profess to produce, in the form of a lizard, frog, or something, the cause of the disease.
The Awobulongo, cow-dung doctors are also successful in this illness.
Stitch. Ili-hlaba is treated by rubbing the part and administering infusions of the root of the Ili-bulawa (Sebæa crassulæfolia), a bitter astringent used also in dysentery and colic.
Vomiting. In-hlanzo, caused by bewitchment or poisoning is arrested by copious draughts of hot water followed by purgatives. [[79]]
Dysentery or Diarrhœa. Uxaxazo referred to gastronomic errors and treated by:
a. I-yeza lezikali (Pelargonium reneforme) administered hot as a decoction in milk of the powdered root, about a teaspoonful of the powder.
b. Um-tuma (Solanum Capense) as in (a).
c. I-gqita (Monsonia ovata). Much used and valued in this disease. It is sedative and astringent and now used as a tincture in the armamentarium of most colonial physicians, and by some considered very valuable in Typhoid fever.