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Avliicli drink a tablespoonful three or four times a day, and 

 take the major portion of the decoction, with the addition of 

 further warm water, if necessary, as an emetic. Or, of the 

 uMayehlezana or uSi shrub (Crotalaria sp .), one may take a 

 bundle of the roots, six inches long, such as can be grasped 

 by one hand, infuse with four or five cupfuls of cold water, 

 and drink off the liquid. With some stomachs there is a 

 liability to vomit the medicine, which is not desirable. 



Another favourite remedy is the umNyatnatld (Ekebergia 

 capensis or meyeri), of which a piece of the root, six inches 

 long, is chopped up and simmered in three pints of wate.r and 

 administered as an emetic. A large dishful of the pounded 

 bark of the iimFhafa (Zizyphus mucronata), made into a 

 hot infusion with a (piart or more of water ; or a single 

 tablespoonful of the decoction of the root of the iDumhhi 

 lika'nfloyile (Ha3manthus natalensis), are also sometimes 

 triken in the same way. 



If any of these chronic coughs be accompanied b}' habitual 

 expectoration of blood, uMahnsana (Capparis gueinzii) is 

 especially indicated. 



Many of these native emetics are supposed to be of especial 

 utility as expectorants, relieving the chest by clearing the 

 air-passages and, perhaps, diminishing the inflammation 

 therein. The u8ununuiidu (Acalypha peduncularis) 

 herb is such a one, and of it a handful of the roots, a foot in 

 length, is bruised and infused with a quart or more of warm 

 water. Another is the iBu:at (Moschosma riparia), of 

 which a handful of the pounded leaves is infused Avith a 

 cupful of cold Avater and drunk, being subsequently followed 

 by sufficient warm water to excite vomiting. Or sometimes 

 the leaves are boiled, and the extract preserved in pot or 

 bottle, a spoonful being taken as required. 



Though not acting as an emetic, a good expectorant for 

 any kind of diy cough is said to be the isiBhaha tree, a good 

 pinch of whose powdered bark is drunk in a spoonful of cold 

 water ; or it may be mixed with hemp-leaves {iuTsangu) and 

 smoked. 



