MULLACA TRIBAL AND HERBAL MEDICINE USES

Mullaca has continued captivated a abode in accustomed anesthetic in the close countries area it grows. Its use by rainforest Indians in the Amazon is able-bodied documented, and its comestible sweet-tart fruits are enjoyed by abounding rainforest inhabitants, beastly and animal alike. Aboriginal tribes in the Amazon use a blade beverage as a diuretic. Some Colombian tribes accept the fruits and leaves accept analgesic backdrop and aswell bubble them as an anti-inflammatory and antibacterial for derma diseases; others use a blade tea for asthma. Aboriginal peoples in the Peruvian Amazon use the blade abstract internally and evidently for worms and the leaves and/or roots for earache, alarmist problems, malaria, hepatitis, and rheumatism. Aboriginal tribes in the Brazilian Amazon use the sap of the bulb for earaches and the roots for jaundice. Mullaca has aswell been acclimated by aboriginal peoples for changeable disorders. In the Solomon Islands, the bake-apple of mullaca is decocted and taken internally to advance fertility. A tea is fabricated of the absolute bulb and/or the leaves in the West Indies and Jamaica to anticipate miscarriages. In Peru the blade is alloyed and acclimated to amusement postpartum infections.

Mullaca is active in herbal anesthetic systems today in both Peru and Brazil. In Peruvian herbal anesthetic the bulb is alleged mullaca or bolsa mullaca. To amusement diabetes, the roots of three mullaca plants are broken and diminished in 1/4 liter of rum for seven days. Honey is added, and 1/2 bottle of this anesthetic is taken alert circadian for 60 days. In addition, an beverage of the leaves is recommended as a acceptable diuretic, and an beverage of the roots is acclimated to amusement hepatitis. For asthma and malaria, the dosage is 1 cup of tea fabricated from the aeriform locations of the plant. In Brazilian herbal anesthetic the bulb is active for abiding rheumatism, for derma diseases and dermatitis, as a allaying and diuretic, for agitation and vomiting, and for abounding types of kidney, liver, and gallbladder problems.