Mofantsoe: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Mofantsoe in Southern Africa is the name of a plant defined with Panicum maximum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym also an account of Sumatra, in a series of letters. London 1814. See [Benjamin Heyne], An Examination of so much of the Tracts, historical and statistical, on India, etc. by B.H. … as relates to the accounts of Sumatra, with various notices on the subjects of Cannibalism, Slavery, etc. By an inhabitant of Fort Marlborough. London 1818 (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Just’s botanischer Jahresbericht. (1900)
· Flora of the Lesser Antilles, Leeward and Windward Islands (1979)
· Mém. ORSTOM (1977)
· Mém. ORSTOM (1975)
· Queensland Agricultural Journal (1938)
· Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy. Part B, Biological Sciences (1985)
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