PAWPAW/DATURA spp
synonym:
cariac hermaphrodita blanco.
Papaya cariac gaertn.
Papayacumumerina norohna
papaya papaya karst.
Papaya sativa tuss
papaya vulgaris DC
family: caricaceae.
vernacular name:
english:papaya, paw paw tree
rutooro:ipaapali
lhukonzo:ekipapaya
lUganda:eppapaali
swahili:mpapai
DESCRIPTION:
carica papaya is is adoiescious (=male flower tree separate from the female flower tree) evergreen tree of 2-10m tall. Usually un branched,containiong white latex in all the parts. The stem is cylindrical,10-30 cm in diameter, hollow, from whose upper part fruits and leaves grow. Has an extensive rooting system. The leaves are spirally arranged, 25 – 75 cm in diameter and deeplly 7 -lobed and male and female flowers are on different trees, but some flowers are bisexual.
Natural habitat:
carica papaya grows in warm, sunny sites sheltered from wind. A very senstive to water logging, and even short periods of flooding can kill the plant
Native: tropical america but is today widely distributed throughout the tropical and warmer sub tropical areas of the world. Altitude: preferably below 1600m
Agricultral practices
propagation methods. Carica papaya is usually grown from seeds which germinates in 2 to 4 weeks. Seeds are washed and dried on paper in ashade and shown bottomless pots to elliminate trnsplanting problems. Vegetative propagation is possible but really practiced.
Carica papaya likes a well drained permueable, well earated fertile loam soil, rich in organic matter with neutral reaction. Since there is no reliable method of determining sex in papaya until its first flowering,plant atleast 4 to 5 seedlings per hole and after determining the sex selected the best female tree to remain. Dont forget that you need atleast 1 male tree for thew pollination
weeds must be controlled especially during the innitial stages of establishment. In the beggining papaya requires water supply. Cutting bark to 30 cm above the ground may reguvinate mature trees. The plant spacing is 1.8m
pests and diseases numerous fungi can cause problems, so dont plant in shade.
Medicinal practices
parts used:ripe and unripe fruits,seeds, flowers,leaves and roots
uses:
worms:
take latex just once in the morning on an empty stomach together with alaxative or alot of ripe fruits to expel the dead worms. This antiworm treatment can also be given when a petient is suffering from diarrhea.
Papaine does not remove all the worms, soffer that reason we recommend repeating the treatment after 1 week as aprecautionery measure. Dosage of paw paw latex
- children from 6months to 1 year: ½ tea spoon
- children from 1 year to 3 years: 1 tea spoon
- children from 4 years to 6 years: 2 tea spoons
- children from7 yrs to 13 yrs : 3 teaspoons
- adults: 4 tea spoons
late is very aggressive to the tongue and is better mixed with honey and warm water before taken.
Prophylatic for worms and amoebiasis: chew apiece of papaya leaf of 5 cm times 5 cm daily, or take orally 1 tablespoon of seeds.
Anaemia,vitamin a, b, or c defficiency:
it plenty of ripe papaya fruits to garantee sufficient supply of vitamins. Vitamin a for agood eyesight,vitaminB for good nerves, vitaminCto support the immune system against infections.
light case of amoebic dysentry and diarrrhoea:
- Drink 1 litre of decoction,divide during day time
- chew atea spoonfull of fresh paw paw seeds 3 times aday for 7 days.
Indigestion and digestion problems: papaine is an enzyme that aids digestion. You can take with food afew drops of paw paw juice or small piece of papaya leaf, or you chew tree paw paw seeds.
cough:
make root decoction and take 1 cup 3 times aday for adults and less for children depending on their body weight.
Haptitis, jaundice, yellow fever.
Alcohol is absolutely forbbiden! Eat alot of fruit then also, either you
- eat regular cooked, un ripe paw paw fruits as avegetable,
- make root decoction and drink 1 litre during the day.
- Drink daily an infunsion of handfull of male paw paw flowers or paw paw bark in 1 litre of boiled water.
- Urinary infections : chew 1 table spoon of fresh paw paw seeds 3 times aday for 7 to 14 days
asthma attacks
- smoke young dried pawpaw leaves in apipe or wrapped in paper in form of cigarette.
- Burn the leaves next to your bed and nihale the smoke
- mix paw paw leaves and euphorbia hirta ( asthma weed) burn and inhale the smoke.
Large supurating burns: use latex water and go to health centre.
Wash and burn several times with “paw paw latex water “ and chew also 1 tablerspoons of pawpaw seeds aday 3 times aday for 3 days. Leave the burn open, and make the petient lay under the mosquito net. fungal infection:
- use latex
- mix 10 drops if latex with 1 table spoon of vegetable oil. Rub the infected areas with this mixture 3 times aday.
- Add leaf powder to the mixture if 16.2 and apply.
- Smear flesh or ripe paw paw fruit on the infected part 2 times aday
Prearations:
latex. Use an unripe paw paw that is still hunging on the tree. To obtain the sap, first thoroughly wash the fruit, and then make verticle cuts in the skin of the green fruit. Collect the drops of white sap in aclean spoon or cup. The knife and the spoon that are used must be of stainless steal, because rust destroys the papaine.
Latex water: mix afew drops of latex in cool, boiled water.
Fresh leaf decoction. Boil 1 handfull of chopped paw paw leaces in 1 litre of water for 5 minutes, cool for 15 minutes and filter
root decoction: boil 1 handfull of roots in 1 litre of water for 15minutes, cool and filter.
Paw paw leaf tinture: put 10kg of dry leaf powder in 100 ml of alcohol for 70 % filter after 1 week and store in aclosed bottle.
Slice of unripe paw paw: wash unripe paw paw that is still hunging on the tree with acloth and boiling water. Clean aknife, put it in boiling water, and then cut aslice of the paw paw the thicknes of achilds little finger. Paw paw will remain on the tree and heal its self.
OTHER DSEASEA TO BE TREATED BY PAWOAW
-elephantiassis,kidney infections,wringles[ant aging],intestinal worms,ucerative colitis, it cleanses blood using the seeds, quickens contraction during birth using female pawpaw roots and it increases sex libido using male pawpaw roots decoction.
-asthma attack make asthma cigarette from dried pawpaw leaves and smoke in cold weather often when its worse. If no quick relief use strong asthma cigarette by adding datura strammonium ,eucalyptus leaves, dried asthma weed leaves to the pawpaw leaves and smoke the cigarette twice aday.
Add to the treatment above asthma weed infusion and take aquarter glassx 2 aday and take after ameal accompanied with a lot of drinks which are free from sugar.
Toxicity.
Internal use: papaine may cause somachache, respect the dosages.
External use: allegic reactions may occur using over along time
avoid contact of paw paw latex with the eyes.
Pregnant women should not take it internally.
Other uses and products.
Food: ripe and green fruits.
Latex: for beverages
to make tough meat tender.: wrap meat in leaves for some hours.
Soap substitute: pounded leaves can replace soap.
Chenopodiumambrosioides l
american wormseed
synonym:
chenopodium anthelminticum l
family: chenopodiacae
vernacular name:
english: chemopodium , american wormseed, jerusalem - oak rutooro: kifaru, seeba kifaru
lhukonzo: omughundulhuma
lUganda: akagobadogo
Description: chenopodium ambrosioides is an herbaceous, vivaciuos, evergreen common weed with much branched stem 40-100cm in height and numerious lanc-shaped leaves. The low leaves are 2 to 8cm in lenght and the upper ones are smaller. The greeenish flowers are in closly cccrouded spikes mixed with leaves and are followed by small, green, round frouts aechof which contains avery smallblack seed.the entire plant has astrong disagreeble odour due to volatile iol.
Agricultural practices:
propagation methods:seeds.
Chenopodium ambrosioides is real weed and you will find many seedlings around amother plant. It can grow in most conditions.
Medicinal practices:
parts used:leaves, roots and flowers.
Uses:
worms:chenalpodium ambrosioides is vermfge: make an infusion and dring one 1cup in the morning an empty stomarch for 3 daysand take also a alaxative to expel the parasite.
Flatulence, expels intestinal gas and stomachache: make an infunsion and drink 1 cup after each meal.
Stop vomiting:
- make decoction and drink ¼ glass 3 times aday.
- Take a abath with decoction mix with water.
Constipation:
- make aroot decoction and drink ¼ glass 3 times aday.
- Drink ¼ glass 3 times aday of plant decoction
Headache
- squeeze,sniff and rub leaves on fore head and neck and drop some juice into the nostrils 1 time aday.
- Mix leaves with leaves of ambrosia maritime, squeeze and sniff.
Fever and childrens convulsions and febrile convulsions:
- booil the top parts of the plant in water, see and inhale steam 2 times aday and bath with decoction.
- Make decoction and drink for adults 4 tablespoons 3 times aday for 3 days, for children 2 table spoons and for babies 1 teaspoon 3 times aday.
- Squeeze the plant and smear it on the body.
- Wash 1 handfull of plant in ½ litre of cool water, filter and take 1 tea spoon 3 times aday for 3 days.
- Stopping nightmares:
crush and press juice out of the plant and smear on head and face at bed time.
Functional pschosis,pschotic exetiment, eplepsy and chasing evil spirits:
- burn the leaves of chenopoium ambrosioides with those of ocimum suave and inhale the smoke.
- Squeeze the whole plant and inhale and rub on the fore head and body of the petient.
- Mix dry powder of whole plant in cow gee or any other jelly and smear on the body.
Spasmodic cough and asthma: booil the leaves and drink ¼ glass during the day time for 1 month.
Haemorrhoids:
- apply fresh juice on the haemorrhoids
- take a hipbath of decoction.
Chest pain: mix leaves with those of tagetes minuta and ambrosia maritime. Then make cold infunsion, take abath and drink 1/3 glass 3 times aday for 3 days.
Preparations:
plant infunsion: pour 1 litre of boiling water over 1 handful or 15 to 20g fresh plant. Cover and filter after 10 mimutes.
plant decoction:boil 15- 20g of plant in 1 litre of water for 20minutes. Cover and filter after 10 minutes.
root decoction: boil 1 handful in 1 litre of water for 20 minutes, wait for 10 minutes and filter.
Toxicity:
Excessive usage is toxic and can even lead to death.
Overdose can provoke digestion intolerance:
other uses and products:
Food: essential oil for flavouring.
Crassocephalum vitellinum s .moore
Family:
asteracae ex. Composae.
veernacular name:
rutooro: embiribiri
lhukonzo:esyanzununu
lUganda: kitonto
Description:an herb up to 1 metre high. Leaves are alternate, ovate, regulated toothed or lobed and flowers heads are orange- yellow.
Natural habitat:grassland and swampy edges.
Agricultural practices:
Propagation methods:seeds and wildings near the mother plant.
Crassocephalum vitellinum is aweed and grows wellin ahumid eviroment.
Medical practices:
Parts used:leaves and flowers.
Use:
Eves:
- the flower is rubbed inside the, to remove tiny particels frome in the eye.
- Wash the eyes with dicoction.
Sterility in men:boil 2dessertspoon of dry leaf powder ofhygrofill odora and crassocephalum vitellinum ni ½ liter of watre and take 1glass three times aday for 7 days.
Weakness during pregnancy and to avoid abortion:
- give anema of 1glass once aday.
- Hands crush leaves, sqeeze out the juice in water and then bathe.
High blood pressure or to lower high blood prssure:
- take 1or 2 glasses every 2days or ½ liter 1time every moths
- boil the leaves and then take.
Stomachache: make adecoction of the plant mixed with the bill of a fish. Boil for ten minutes and take one tea spoon 3 tiomes aday and for 4 days.
Snakebite:rub some laeves and tie the leaves on the snake bite
uterus problems as ulcers, polyps, dislocation of fallopian tube and after birth problems:
take 1 glass 3 aday for 5 days of cold extractand take ahipbath.
Dryness in woman:take 1glass 3times aday for 5 days of cold extract and take ahipbarth.
Condrols exess mensration:take 1glass 3times aday of cold extract for 5days.
Delayed mothly periods:squeeze the juis out of the leaves and take.
Headache:hand-crush the leaves, sqeese out juis in water, take some as you wet the head.
Malaria:boil the leaves and take.
Syphilis:compain the leaves with othre harbs, boil and then take.
Wounds:dry the leaves , crash to powder and then aply onto the wounds.
primeture delivery:sqeeze juis out of the leaves and take for one month.
gonorrhea:squeeze the juis out of the leaves and take.
yellow fever:squeeze the juis out of the leaves and take.
ringworms:crush the leaves in compination with roots.
Preparations:
Flowers and leaf decoction:boil 1handfull in one leater of wather
Cold plant extract:pound fresh leaves and mix with some cold water.
Leafe decoction:oboil one handfull in one leater of water for afew minutesand use.
Eurphorbia hirta linn
asthma weed
synonym:
Sugar:
Purified extracted sugar, even if it came from sugarcane, maize or sugar beet acts as a drug in the body and very quickly the body starts depending on it. That is why in many cases a person starts using one tea spoon of sugar in a cup of tea and after some years he needs three tea spoons to satisfy the sugar pressure. Excess sugar conservation may lead to general body weakness, dental caries, obesity, magnesium deficiency and sugar crystals fix themselves as toxins in the body especially between the different joints.
Sugar is also a very good substrate for bacteria and fungi and people who take a lot of sugar are more susceptible to fungal and bacterial diseases.
Various scientific studies have related access of white sugar consumption with cancer of the colon, stomach cancer and cervical cancer.
A sugar contains a lot of calories and energy for the body, it can stop the 'feelings of hunger' and that is well known by poor school children who at lunch time take sugarcane instead of food and this can lead to malnutrition (beside all other pernicious influences) when sugarcane or other sweets are often replacing food.
There is no need for adding purified or unpurified sugar as the amount of sugar that the body needs, even during exercise can be found in fruits, vegetables and serials.
Don’t forget that soft drinks and sodas contain a lot of sugar as well as chemicals.
Salt
Excess use of salt may cause heart disease, kidney problems, high blood pressure and obesity salt retains water in the body. Water normally takes toxins along when leaving the body (elimination). As water is retained, toxins remain also in the body. Un cooked salt destroys the tongue papilla (which are responsible for your testes); the taste decreases and more salt will be needed to find the original salt flavor back.
Just like sugars, the salt crystals may fix themselves as toxins in the body especially between the different joints.
Raw vegetable due to high salty content can replace salt. But if you don’t eat a lot of raw vegetables, use and take clean lake salt, vegetable salt or lye instead of white purified salt.
Always cook your salt and never add salt when the meal is already in your dish to save your tongue papilla.
