# Bantu Folk Lore (Medical and General)

Author: Hewat, Matthew L.

Genre: Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67597

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Bantu+Folk+Lore+%28Medical+and+General%29+Hewat&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The Bantu race comprises one great family extending over all Central and South Africa, South of a line drawn roughly from the Kamerun to the Pokomo River, but excluding the South West corner—Great Namaqualand and Western Cape Colony—which from time immemorial has been occupied by Hottentots.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/3/index.md)
- [c. The leaves and shoots of (Um-pafa) wait-a-bit thorn tree, are](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/1/index.md)
- [c. Another method I have had described is to lance the temple, collect](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/6/index.md)
- [c. The powdered root of I-qwili (Alepidea amatymbica) is also used for](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/7/index.md)
- [i. An ointment made by boiling in lard the leaves of the Ubu-vumba](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/11/index.md)
- [c. The In-gcelwane (Bulbine latifolia) of which a decoction of the root](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/14/index.md)
- [c. The juice pressed from the leaves of U-watile (Hippobromus alata) is](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/8/index.md)
- [d. Callous ulcers or slow healing wounds are treated by applying the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/10/index.md)
- [c. Swollen and inflamed wounds are poulticed with U-nomolwana (mallow](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bantu-folk-lore-medical-and-general-67597/chapters/9/index.md)