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Scientific Name:Rhus vulgaris  
Vernacular Name:Umusagara
Family name :Umusagara
Geographic Distribution:Savanna, xerophytic bushes, forest gallery,1200 –1800 m

Botanical Description

Shrub or small branched tree of 1–12m tall rarely thorny, lenticels on young branchs.  Compound Leaves made up with oval- elliptic pubescent folioles. Inflorescence is a pyramidal panicles of 12 cm long. The fruits are globular drupes

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Medicinal Use

Antibacterial activity, In Uganda it is used to cure sexual impotence and erectile dysfunction. Decoction of fresh or dried leaves is used to treat gonorrhea. Fresh or dried herb is crushed, boiled and the decoction is used totreatt liver diseases. A root decoction is used for the painful micturation in children.To stop diarrhea, boil the fruits and drink the extract, stem are boiled and the liquid applied to wounds. The powdered root is mixed with the gruel and drunk for gonorrhea. Roots mixed with other plant make a valuable drink for expectant mothers, believed to make delivery easy and also used for infertility. Leaves are used for the treatment of haemorrhoids. Umohoza who is a TMP in Kigali said that a maceration of crusched leaves, barks and roots of Rhus vulgaris is used to treat poisonning.

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Other Use

Fruits are eaten by men especially by cow and goat shepherd

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