Herbal Medicinal Plants
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| If you have been in a draught, "don’t feel yourself right,’’ use white pigeon peas, Cajanus cajan,
with chadon benni (Eryngium foetidum), boil, put in salt and
drink. To use pigeon peas as a laxative, take a handful of
leaves, pound and extract the juice and add it to three oils: Barbados
oil, castor oil, and cooking oil. Swizzle well and
drink. To treat white blood cell disease, parch the peas and
pulverize them. Use a tablespoon in two quarts of water as
tisane. For bles, pound the leaves, squeeze out the liquid, add a
little water, salt, and any oil to it and drink warm. Also used
for bellyache.owers are reportedly used for abortion. One herbalist
says it’s good when "blood goes up in somebody’s head and make them
kind of crazy.’’ A drink is made of the fle makatata, bonmidjez
and lard and the head is wrapped with ponm pwezon (Solanum capsicoides). Verna Slane 1987 |