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.”
Candlenut tree’s leaves and fruits.PROTA4U, CC BY-NC-SAThis healing formula doesn’t come from a section of the ‘Hippocratic...
