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Table 2 Other material used in treatments

From: Herbal medicine use in the districts of Nakapiripirit, Pallisa, Kanungu, and Mukono in Uganda

Material

Ailment

1.White chalk soil

Chicken pox

2.Animal parts (fat, offal, blood, butter and cow dung)

Chest pain

a.Milk from a black cow

Measles

b.fat

Tuberculosis

3.Ash

Febrile convulsions, Wounds, Malaria

4.Coral salt, Ebalangit

Toothache

5.Hot cloth

Headache

6.Petroleum Jelly

Pneumonia, Fractures

7.Kihonde

 

8.Kitchen soot

Worms

9.Rabbit hair and parts of the animal called Napupu

Burns

10.Salt and Rock salt

Wounds

11.Anthill soil

Pyomyositis

12.Soil, Red soil,

Diarrhea, Tonsillitis, Worms, Malaria Cough, Malaria

13.Water from a grass roof

Uterine fibroids