| Field notes | " ShShrub. Maasai name: orgilai. Drunk for "bone-gonorrhea". Four pieces of roots 20 cm long and as thick as a finger is boiled in at least one hour and mixed with meatsoup to get 4-5 l, which suits for 3-4 persons. "orgilau" can't be used alone and it is prefered to make it together with roots of "orkonyil", "orkokola", "ormorogi" and "olorien".It is particularly good to mix the decoction with soup made on head and hooves all kind of animal and chestbone of cattle, as it gives a strong soup, which support the medicine. Is only drunk once either at meatcamp or outside. Treatment of elder men, who can't urinate: Two roots c. 15 cm long and as thick as 2 fingers of following species:"orkonyil", "orkokola", "ormorogi" and "oloirrien" and "orgilau" are placed in 10 litre water and 3 kg honey together with 2 roots of "osuguroi" to ferment for 2-3 days to a medicine less strong than the traditional honeybeer, as less "osuguroi" is used. The patient is first given a lot of fat roasted goatmeat to eat and only allowed to drink this medicine until it is finished and he has started to urinate. Other elder can drink it, even though they haven't the same problem. It is the only medicine to treat elder mens lacking ability to urinate Wood used for making all kind of sticks, both short and long ones used while herding cattle and by elders. |
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