c. Swollen and inflamed wounds are poulticed with U-nomolwana (mallow

leaves in paste), which soon reduces the inflammation or brings the abscess to a point. When the wound is cleaned in this way it is washed with a decoction of mallow leaves made in an earthenware vessel (not a metal pot) and an application made of one of the in-kubele (healing plants), e.g., The leaves of the Pelargonium alchemilioides in the form of a paste.

I have the record of a man with a perforating ulcer of the foot, who refused amputation and who was ultimately cured by a Kaffir surgeon.