Isidumo - Ilex mitis

$4.97

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Used by the Xhosa as an ubulawu plant.

Diviners use plants in protective rituals to protect patients from sorcery.

Pieces of bark can be used as divining dice & witchcraft protection.

When the leaves are rubbed together they give a lather and this was once used by the Knysna woodcutters to wash themselves in the streams of the forest. The Zulus are also aware of this use. This is reflected in their name iphuphuma which means, 'it foams out'.

Chemistry :

Lather from pounded bark and leaves indicates the potential presence of saponins.

$4.97 for 30grams of Mukanya kude.
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Related species :

(The following info was sourced from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)

Ilex guayusa, commonly known as "guayusa", is a tree of the holly genus, native to the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest. It is a distant relative of both Yerba Mate and Yaupon Holly (the plant used to make the "black drink"). The leaves have the highest caffeine content of any known plant.

In addition to the stimulant effects, the tea is used to enhance dream recall. To achieve this effect, it is believed that the tea must be drunk consistently in the early morning, just after waking, before the sunrise. For many Ecuadorian indigenous, the morning drinking of guayusa is a social ritual.

In areas in which it grows, it is also a common admixture to the powerful entheogenic brew ayahuasca. According to the Ecuadorians, it is also slightly hallucinogenic on its own, when drunk in high enough quantities.

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