This page contains general information about plants used to make traditional medicine.

Umvongothi

Ibhucu

Umaphipha

Stevia

Umthombothi

African potato

Ashwagandha (Ubuvimba) – Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal

Umpendulo

Diviner’s sage – Salvia

Cannabis sativa L.

Zanthoxylum capense – the treatment for the influenza epidemic of 1918

Alepidea amatymbica – a psychoactive plant

Top 10 plants used for divination by Zulu traditional healers in South Africa

Rhoicissus tomentosa (Isinwazi)

Psoralea pinnata (Umhlonishwa)

Ziziphus mucronata (Umlahlankosi)

Curtisia dentata (Umlahleni)

Sarcophyte sanguinea (Umavumbuka)

Justicia flava (Impela)

Ocotea Bullata (Unukane)