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warm water. As a draught for this disease a cold infusion 

 of the nmSuzwane (Lippia asperifolia) leaves is taken. 



Catarrh, etc. 



The several native specifics for the more serious chronic 

 coughs accompanying lung diseases, scrofula, etc., will be 

 detailed below, and any of these would be experimented with 

 to remove the transient cough of the simpler umKliulilmie, 

 influenza, catarrh, and the like. The following ai'e some 

 others more suitable for this use. 



Of the uMatlioyisa (Lepidium capense), one may cut up 

 the large tuber, pour upon it about one cupful of boiling water 

 and drink therefrom a dessert-spoonful from time to time. 

 A handful of the leaves of the uXhapJwzi (Ranunculus 

 pinnatus) may be bruised and infused with a couple of table- 

 spoonfuls of hot water and the whole drunk off to relieve the 

 cough. Or a double handful of the leaves of the bitter 

 uHlonyane or iNyathelo (Vernonia woodii) may be infused 

 with about a quart or more of water. Of this a cupful may be 

 put aside and drunk in dessert-spoonfuls from time to time, 

 and the remainder used, while still warm, as a clyster. Or a 

 double handful of the leaves of the uMachahazi (Cony sea 

 incisa) may be slightly boiled and a tablespoonful of the 

 decoction occasionally drunk. 



To relieve the headache which is so generally an accompani- 

 ment of these febrile attacks, a few leaves of the iMmij/aoie 

 (Leo not is leonurus) are pounded and steeped in cold Avater 

 and the liquid drawn into the nostrils. The pungent leaves 

 of the uZi2)ho or iKhamblii leziduli (Cardiospermum hali- 

 cacabum) may be rubbed together in the hands and the 

 fumes inhaled through the nose. Another plant is the 

 iiiiBliozisa, whose root is pounded in a little cold water and 

 the liquid drawn up the nostrils. The roots of the uDlufs'hana 

 (Aster asper), of the uQhume (Hippobromus alatus) 

 and of the iBhinini (Embelia kraussii) are used in a similar 

 fashion. One of the thick leaves of the umBlehe (^yn- 



