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Euphorbia tirucalli is used as alternative medicine in many cultures. Attempts have been made to use it to treat cancer, excrescence, tumors, warts, asthma, cough, earache, neuralgia, rheumatism, and toothaches in countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia. [8] [9]
The name imphepho used in Southern Africa refers to around 250 species from the genus Helichrysum. [12] The Helichrysum species used as imphepho grow abundantly in South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho but especially around coastal areas and the largely arid Northern Cape province. The plants grow abundantly in gardens and in the wild, for this ...
Euphorbia tithymaloides has a large number of household names used by gardeners and the public. Among them are redbird flower, [7] devil's-backbone, [8] redbird cactus, Jewbush, buck-thorn, cimora misha, Christmas candle, fiddle flower, ipecacuahana, Jacob's ladder, Japanese poinsettia, Jew's slipper, milk-hedge, myrtle-leaved spurge, Padus-leaved clipper plant, red slipper spurge, slipper ...
What one nurse learned about humanity amidst the Ebola epidemic
However, this plant has been used medicinally as a purgative or for ulcers. Venda and Sotho people use it against cancer. In South Africa and Zimbabwe candelabra tree stems are also used to poison fish. Light and solid, the wood is used in door, plank, and boat production. The candelabra tree is very adaptable and is grown in garden and rockery ...
Ephedra is widely used by athletes as a performance-enhancing drug, [14] despite a lack of evidence that it improves athletic performance. [15] [16] Ephedra may also be used as a precursor in the illicit manufacture of methamphetamine. [17] Ephedra has been used as a weight-loss aid, sometimes in combination with aspirin and caffeine.
Dysphania ambrosioides is an annual or short-lived perennial herb, growing to 1.2 m (4 ft) tall, irregularly branched, with oblong-lanceolate leaves up to 12 cm (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long.
A red-brown dye made from the inner bark was used on kapa and aho (Touchardia latifolia cordage). A coating of kukui oil helped preserve ʻupena (fishing nets). [28] The nohona waʻa (seats) and pale of waʻa (outrigger canoes) were made from the wood. [29] The trunk was sometimes used to make smaller canoes used for fishing. [30]