What do you know about medicinal plants of South Africa?
This has been proven wrong; modern medicine borrows so much from herbal plants found all over the world.
South African indigenous plants can, therefore, be considered a helping hand to modern medicine.
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A lot of medicinal plants of South Africa books exist.
They have a more comprehensive list of these plants with a deeper description of the same.
This shows how rich South Africa is in Herbal medicine.
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Its medicinal values are:
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Its main health benefits are:
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Traditionally, medicine men and locals used the plant mostly in treating various ailments like common cold and flu.
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This is because of its widespread use, from a source of food to its medicinal abilities.
Different parts of the fruit have different medicinal use, which is broken down below:
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The plant has many more medicinal abilities, such as:
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Merwilla Natalensis (Hyacinthaceae)
The Merwilla is a common plant in Eastern South Africa.
Its traditional name was inguduza, which loosely interprets to getting the cause of the illness from the body.
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The plant is known to have the ability to heal different ailments, hence the generalizing name.
Precisely, it is among the South African plants with great value.
This can be attributed to the effort by the Botanical Society of South Africas in conserving these plants.
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Due to this effort, traditional medicine in South Africa has increased in popularity, complementing modern medicine.
She has a Bachelor of Commerce & IT from the University of Nairobi and joined Briefly.co.za in November 2019.
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