Badea (Passiflora quadrangularis)
SabedorHilario Rivero Yukuna, originally from Mirití said in an interview
in, Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia (see interview 5 in the addendum):
Seven leaves of Badea are collected and cooked in water. They are taken in a
large cup of warm water before breakfast. Then the patient waits three
minutes before vomiting. The plant is used to clean the stomach when
suffering painful cramps and diarrhoea.Members of other ethnic groups or pueblossuch as Muinas (Uitotos),
Muinanes, Andokes, Yukunas and others use the young Badealeaves to cure
hepatitis A and B in the early stages: on the first day of treatment, the juice
of one leaf is taken, and each following day the juice of another leaf is added
until nine leaves are being used; the plant is then suspended for 3 days. On
resuming the treatment, the number of leaves taken is reduced by one leaf
each day until returning to one leaf (see interview 6 in the addendum).
Escama de Pirarucu, Escama de Paichi(Quéchua language) (Kalanchoe
sp. (aff. pinnata) [syn. Bryophyllumsp.]
SabedorJoa ̄ o Costa Rios Filho explained in an interview (see interview 7 in
the addendum):
The leaf of Escama de Paichi crushed with honey is used for cough and
whooping cough. It is also used topically as an anti-inflammatory and to
control haemorrhage from a wound; the cold leaf is applied directly to the
affected area.Maria Luisa–Hierba Luisa; Santo Cuipa(Quéchua language)
(Cymbopogon citratus(DC. ex Nees) Stapf
SabedorJoa ̄ o Costa Rios Filho said in the interview (see interview 7 in the
addendum):
The Santa Cuipa leaf can be used as a disinfectant as well as to treat insect
bites and kill ticks. Internally it can be taken as an infusion made with the
leaves, or taken as the pure juice to lower blood pressure. In order to increase
hair growth the leaf is crushed and applied to the head without bathing.Fungus: Oreja de palo(Pycnoporus sanguineusL. ex Fr.)
The fungus oreja de palo, shown in Figure 4.10, grows on fallen, dead trees
in the chagras. The fresh fungus is red in colour, and at this stage is
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