Alepidea amatymbica
Alepidea amatymbica
Afrikaans: Kalmoes
English :
IsiXhosa: iquili
Zulu : ikhathazo
Description and diagnostic features
It has an underground stolon and leaves with frilly edges extending from the end of the stolon. The stolon has a very pungent smell. The tiny white flowers are on a widely de vided and extended inflorescence, a bit like lace flowers.
Part used
The underground stolon is used.
It can be used fresh or dried.
Uses
It is or great use in chest complaints from post nasal drip that infects the chest to chest catarrh and asthma to general feelings of exhaustion.
Warning
Habitat
It grows best in cool wet places like next to streams and drips from cliffs in the mountains.
Propagation
Stolon division and transplanting makes propagation easy.
