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Alor’s healing plants: a treasure trove of medical knowledge and oral tradition

  • Written by Francesco Perono Cacciafoco, Associate Professor in Linguistics, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

“When a child has a fever, crush a ‘candlenut’ (fiyaai [Aleurites moluccanus]). Add water to the mixture, and apply it to the child’s body. The fever will go down.”

Aleurites moluccanusCandlenut tree’s leaves and fruits.PROTA4U, CC BY-NC-SA

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