Medicines Database

Alaisai

Osyris abyssinica

African sandalwood

Helps with

stomach

Common name

African sandalwood

Almandeindei

Helps with

vision

Common name

Armararoi

Combretum molle

Velvet bushwillow

Helps with

fever, immune

Common name

Velvet bushwillow

Arpande

Lannea schweinfurthii

False marula

Helps with

Common name

False marula

Emangulai

Grewia villosa

Mallow raisin

Helps with

urinary, stomach

Common name

Mallow raisin

Endemelwa

Solanum setaceum

Helps with

fever, immune, stomach

Common name

Endijai

Helps with

blood

Common name

Endundulu

Helps with

stomach

Common name

Engamuriaki

Carissa edulis

Conkerberry

Helps with

STDs, joints, gonorrhea

Common name

Conkerberry

Engoinerei

Burseraceae

Helps with

Common name

Enjani emburkei

Croton scheffler

Helps with

stomach

Common name

Esilalei

Commiphora schimperi

Glossy-leaved corkwood

Helps with

Common name

Glossy-leaved corkwood

Iloondwa

Rapanea melanophloeos

Cape beech

Helps with

stomach, urinary

Common name

Cape beech

Olchoki

Euphorbia crotonoides Boiss

Helps with

Common name

Olekiwushi

Helps with

Common name

Olodwai

Myrsine africana

African boxwood

Helps with

STDs

Common name

African boxwood

Oloishomi

Helps with

Common name

Olorien

Cordia monoica

Olive

Helps with

Common name

Olive

Ondemwai

Commiphora swynnertonii

Myrrh

Helps with

respiratory

Common name

Myrrh

Orboboli

Stephania abyssinica

African moonseed

Helps with

skin

Common name

African moonseed

Oreteti

Helps with

Common name

Orkitarwo

Helps with

Common name

Orkonyil

Rhamnus prinoides

Gesho (Ethiopian)

Helps with

stomach, fever

Common name

Gesho (Ethiopian)

Ormesera

Helps with

Common name

Ormungushi

Searsia pyroides

Common currant-rhus

Helps with

bone fracture

Common name

Common currant-rhus

Orporokwai

Helps with

Common name

Oseki

Cordia ovalis

Snot berry

Helps with

Common name

Snot berry

Alaisikrai

Helps with

abrasions, infection

Common name

Altasaru

Helps with

Common name

Armargirigiriani

Lantana viburnoides

Lantana

Helps with

Common name

Lantana

Eluaii

Acacia drepanolobium

Whistling thorn

Helps with

back, muscles

Common name

Whistling thorn

Emukea

Flueggea virosa

Simpleleaf bushweed

Helps with

vision

Common name

Simpleleaf bushweed

Endialongo

Helps with

Common name

Endisa

Helps with

urinary

Common name

Engamai

Ximenia americana L.

Hog plum

Helps with

Common name

Hog plum

Engitauro

Helps with

Common name

Engoireroi

Helps with

measles, headache, malaria, fungal poisoning

Common name

Enjani engare

Helps with

stomach, abrasions, infection

Common name

Esiteti

Grewia trichocarpa

crossberry

Helps with

Common name

crossberry

Oiti

Acacia mellifera

Black thorn

Helps with

Common name

Black thorn

Olchurai

Helps with

blood

Common name

Olerai

Acacia xanthaphloea

Yellow barked acacia/Fever tree

Helps with

Common name

Yellow barked acacia/Fever tree

Oloikurukur

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Helps with

pneumonia

Common name

Oloisuki

Zanthoxylum chalybeum

Knob wood

Helps with

respiratory, cold, sore throat

Common name

Knob wood

Olosesiai

Osyris lanceolata

African sandalwood

Helps with

immune

Common name

African sandalwood

Orbibyai

Leonotis mollissima

Lion's Ear

Helps with

food poisoning, stomach

Common name

Lion's Ear

Orbukoi

Terminalia brownii

Mbarao

Helps with

respiratory, pneumonia, stomach, malaria

Common name

Mbarao

Orgilai

Vepris simplicifolia

Mziray

Helps with

joints, back

Common name

Mziray

Orkokola

Rhamnus staddo

Staddo

Helps with

stomach, constipation

Common name

Staddo

Orkurushashi

Indigofera basiflora

True indigo

Helps with

urinary, ulcers, skin

Common name

True indigo

Ormotoo

Helps with

constipation, stomach

Common name

Orngoswa

Balanites aegyptica

Desert date

Helps with

Common name

Desert date

Ortepesi

Acacia tortilis

Umbrella thorn acacia

Helps with

fever

Common name

Umbrella thorn acacia

Osiamalil

Acacia etbaica

Helps with

stomach

Common name

Alasiti

Acacia albizia

Persian silktree

Helps with

immune

Common name

Persian silktree

Armabait

Croton megalocarpus

Croton tree

Helps with

stomach, cold, respiratory

Common name

Croton tree

Arngarooji

Helps with

Common name

Emanao

Helps with

Common name

Emukutiai

Helichrysum odoratissimum

Imphepho

Helps with

fever, sore throat, respiratory, stomach

Common name

Imphepho

Endiasika

Helps with

joints, back, muscles

Common name

Endulelei

Solanum incanum

Poison apple

Helps with

abrasions

Common name

Poison apple

Engamoloki

Helps with

Common name

Engoilalei

Zizyphus mucronata

Buffalo thorn

Helps with

joints

Common name

Buffalo thorn

Engonini

Erlangea enigmatica

Helps with

Common name

Esikardei

Helps with

Common name

Ilaisikira

Helps with

Common name

Olaile

Helps with

Common name

Oldupai

Sansevieria ehrenbergii

Sword sansevieria

Helps with

immune

Common name

Sword sansevieria

Olesayet

Solanum mauense

Helps with

Common name

Oloireroi

Boscia angustifolia

Helps with

Common name

Olokunonoi

Helps with

stomach

Common name

Oltimigomi

Pappea capensis

Jacket plum

Helps with

fever

Common name

Jacket plum

Orbili

Helps with

Common name

Oremit

Salvadora persica

Miswak

Helps with

stomach, blood, muscles

Common name

Miswak

Orkiloriti/Engiloriti

Acacia nilotica

Egyptian thorn

Helps with

stomach

Common name

Egyptian thorn

Orkolili

Helps with

blood, abrasions

Common name

Ormaroroiq

Helps with

Common name

Ormukutan

Albizia anthelmintica

Worm-cure albizia

Helps with

stomach

Common name

Worm-cure albizia

Orperelongo

Acacia brevispica

Prickly Thorn

Helps with

respiratory, sore throat

Common name

Prickly Thorn

Osangururi

Scutia myrtina

Cat-thorn

Helps with

Common name

Cat-thorn

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Osyris abyssinica

African sandalwood

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Combretum molle

Velvet bushwillow

Lannea schweinfurthii

False marula

Grewia villosa

Mallow raisin

Solanum setaceum

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Carissa edulis

Conkerberry

Burseraceae

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Croton scheffler

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Commiphora schimperi

Glossy-leaved corkwood

Rapanea melanophloeos

Cape beech

Euphorbia crotonoides Boiss

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Myrsine africana

African boxwood

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Cordia monoica

Olive

Commiphora swynnertonii

Myrrh

Stephania abyssinica

African moonseed

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Rhamnus prinoides

Gesho (Ethiopian)

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Searsia pyroides

Common currant-rhus

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Cordia ovalis

Snot berry

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Lantana viburnoides

Lantana

Acacia drepanolobium

Whistling thorn

Flueggea virosa

Simpleleaf bushweed

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Ximenia americana L.

Hog plum

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