| Field notes | Shrub, flowers lilac, fruits yellow. Maasai name: endúlelei Decoction of root mixed with milk is drunk for "oloirobi" (means cold and refer to various symptoms, but not a specific disease). Sap of 4-6 fruits is mixed with 2 decilitre water and drunk pure for pneumonia with coughing of blood. It is extremely bitter, cause raise of temperature and treatment is not repeated. Sap of fruit is mixed with the chewed flowers and leaves of "alchanipus la alasuria" to treat snakebites of snakes from the highland. Used to treat calves with "oltikana" (east coast fever) and cattle with "olmilo" (bovine cerebral theiloriosis), even though it is not recognised as an efficient treatment, but used in lack of other possibilities, for these disease, where else only "God can help". For calves with "oltikana" sap of 4 fruits is mixed with 1/2 cup of water and 3-4 tablets of "tetracycline" (anti-biotic used for both human and cattle) and given to one calf. For full-grown cattle with "olmilo": Sap of 6-7 fruits is mixed with 1/2 litre of water and 6-7 tablets of "tetracycline", suits for one. Koto kunyinya Nailole (called Ngilole), traditional midwife, Olmekeke: Decoction of plant is used to wash women after delivery. She bathes when it suits her in the hut in the room used to keep cattle and goats during nights. Plant species selected in accordance to tradition. |
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