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Puelia olyriformis (Franch.) WD Clayton [family POACEAE]

Date Updated: 30 April 2005

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 2
Names
Puelia olyriformis (Franch.) WD Clayton [family POACEAE]
Uses
root Medicines: pain-killers root Medicines: stomach troubles root Medicines: kidneys, diuretics root Medicines: genital stimulants/depressants
Description
A perennial sub-woody herbaceous grass of the forest floor of the closed evergreen forest, to about 60 cm high, in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and in Central Africa from E Cameroun to Tanganyika and Angola.The plant has a short rhizome with some roots ending in a tuber. In Congo (Brazzaville) the roots are eaten to relieve pain in the kidneys, and as a stimulant in impotence; they are also boiled with papaya roots and the liquid is drunk morning and evening, one glassful, to relieve stomach-ache (1).
References
Reference:1. Bouquet, 1969: 128.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Date Updated: 30 April 2005

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 2
Names
Puelia olyriformis (Franch.) WD Clayton [family POACEAE]
Uses
root Medicines: pain-killers root Medicines: stomach troubles root Medicines: kidneys, diuretics root Medicines: genital stimulants/depressants
Description
A perennial sub-woody herbaceous grass of the forest floor of the closed evergreen forest, to about 60 cm high, in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and in Central Africa from E Cameroun to Tanganyika and Angola.The plant has a short rhizome with some roots ending in a tuber. In Congo (Brazzaville) the roots are eaten to relieve pain in the kidneys, and as a stimulant in impotence; they are also boiled with papaya roots and the liquid is drunk morning and evening, one glassful, to relieve stomach-ache (1).
References
Reference:1. Bouquet, 1969: 128.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Puelia olyriformis (Franch.) WD Clayton [family POACEAE]
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