Scientific Name :Clutia abyssinica var. abyssinica Vernacular Name :Umutarishonga Family name :Umutarishonga Geographic Distribution :In clearing and along of mountain forest, 1700 – 2500 m.
Botanical Description Clutia abyssinica is a shrub rarely a small tree, up to 4 m. Leaves ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, up to 16 cm long fairly, thinly textured, light green above, somewhat blue grenn below, mostly hairless, margin entire. Flowera in axillary clusters, small, yellowish to greenish, unisexual on different trees.
Medicinal Use Roots and leaves of clutia abyssinica are used for medicinal purposes. In DR Congo a decoction is taken to treat fever and cough and is taken by pregnant women as tonic. Ground roots are applied as an enema to treat gonorrhea. A maceration of the crushed leaves is used as nose drops. It has also antimicrobial properties.
In Ugannda, thedisease cured are headache, malaria, and stomach-ache. For both headach and stomach-ache the roots are boiled in soup borse firmate imitazioni perfette and then drunk. Afor malaria however the soup is drunk but for satisfactory results the leaves are boiled and while they are still very hot, the sick person covers himself in a blanket so that the vapor from the boiled leaves circulates in the blanket. Root extract is drunk to cure influenza and as a remedy for indigestion, The mixing of boiled root decoction with mlik is drunk to cure liver pains.
