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A general specific for an umKhuhlane is the ■nmHlonyane 

 (Artemisia afra — Wormwood), a double handful of the 

 leaves being infused as tea with a quart or so of hot water, 

 and administered either as clyster or emetic. 



As a kind of tonic or stimulant, to remove the general 

 seediness or depression caused by the complaint, a piece of 

 the stout root, an inch and a half thick and six inches long, 

 of the poisonous iniFnlwa (Ophiocaulon gummifera) is 

 chopped and infused with three or four pints of boiling water 

 as an emetic. 



Other remedies used for an umKhuhlane and generally as 

 emetics are the poisonous uMahedeni (Phytolacca abv^s- 

 sinica), the red roots of the iuTolwane (Elephantorhiza 

 burchellii), those of the nMayhne (Olivia min iata), and of 

 the umLovimnnandi. 



Malarial fever (also nowadays connnonly called simply an 

 umKhuhlane, and recently in Natal, from the shivering 

 symptoms, umQhuqho) is one of the most destructive enemies 

 the native of Zululand has ever had to contend against. 

 When the last grande arnv'e of Shaka, composed of the whole 

 male population of Zululand and Natal, was sent forth north- 

 wards to fight Soshangane, beyond Delagoa Bay, it was 

 practically wiped out by iMhho (as the malignant type of the 

 disease was then called) before it had so much as reached the 

 enemy's territory. Although the natives, even such as have 

 been born within the malarial areas, are not quite so liable as 

 are the Europeans to the severer forms of attack, still, they are 

 very far from being immune against them. Every year in the 

 malarial districts of Zululand a very large number of natives 

 succumb, and some years as large a number as to all other 

 diseases combined. Yet so far they have not succeeded in 

 discovering any efficient remedy against it. Their method is 

 to attack the disease with emetics and purgatives, which, by 

 ridding the system of its excessive accumulation of bile, gives 

 a temporary easement to some of the more distressing 

 symptoms, and so, perhaps, facilitates recovery. We are 

 bound to own that, with the natives, this method is 



