44 REV. ALFRED T. BRYANT. 



Another course is to make a warm infusion of a handful of 

 the leaves and roots of the nhnHbmgirana (Wedelia 

 natal en sis) with one cupful of boiling water. This is drunk 

 and followed as before by a copious draught of warm water as 

 an emetic. A larger quantity of the plant is prepared in the 

 same way^ but with about a quart of water, for use as a 

 clyster. A tablespoonful of the infusion may be also drunk 

 from time to time. 



Another remedy is the uHlonyane or iNyatJielu (Vernonia; 

 woodii), of which a double handful is taken of the leaves and 

 an infusion made with a quart or more of water to be 

 administered as a clyster. A dessert-spoonful of the extract 

 may also be occasionally drunk. 



The inKonazana herb (Alysicarpus wallachii) is used 

 for tlie same purpose, a bundle of the roots, about one inch 

 through, being pounded and made into a hot infusion with a 

 quart or more of water and taken as an emetic. So, also, is 

 the umFusavivu tree (Pittosporum viridiflorum), a piece 

 of the bark, about three inches by two, being pounded and 

 steeped in a pint of boiling water, which is drunk, and after- 

 wards followed by sufficient simple water to excite vomiting. 

 Sometimes an enema is prepared of a double quantity of this 

 same bark (which, however, does not seem to possess any 

 independent purging properties) steeped in enough boiling 

 water for the purpose. Another common bile-emetic is the 

 uMadintsauK herb (? Tripteris sp.), of a handful of whose 

 leaves a hot infusion is made with one cupful of water supple- 

 mented by a copious draught of plain warm water so soon as 

 the inclination to vomit takes place. An infusion in a pint of 

 hot water of a single handful of the six-inch roots of the 

 iimSenge (Cussonia spicata) is prepared and administered 

 in the same way. 



The commonest purgative, of course, used for expelling the 

 ''bile" in the bowels caused by an umKhuhlane is the iJalamhhu 

 (Ipomoea purpurea), of whose stalks, six inches long, a 

 handful may be bruised in a half pint of boiling water or fowl- 

 broth and the liquid drunk. 



