This plant is also used for other poisonous bites e.g. The intojane, a poisonous caterpillar, of the shaggy tarantula, this latter being very common in the thatch of huts.
4. Ubu-hlungu besigcawu (Blepharis Capensis) is also used, as its name implies for tarantula bite.
5. Isi-dikili (Lasiosiphon Meisneri) in doses of ½ oz. of dried root often repeated. This plant is also used by the Gaikas as a gargle in sore throat and a paste for open sores.
6. Ubu-hlungu benyoko (Acocanthera venenata) a very poisonous plant. A small [[96]]piece of the leaf is rubbed up in cold water and administered. It produces violent vomiting. Several deaths are directly traceable to the use of this highly dangerous plant.
Professor Sir T. Fraser of Edinburgh has extracted the active principle of this and describes it (Acocantherine) as a glucoside, which powerfully increases the systolic act of the heart, killing in this way.
The Bushmen use this juice as an arrow poison.
7. Ubu lembu belitye (Parmelia conspersa) is a lichen. Scraped off the rocks it is used for snake and other venomous bites.
8. Ili-bulawa. (Sebæa crassulæfolia) has been used with success in recorded cases of puff-adder bite.
9. Um-nungumabele (Xanthoxylon Capense). A decoction of the tree root is used.
There are also many others.