This is an infectious disease caused by bacteria in the intestines.
Contaminated food or water is usually the source of the spread of the
disease. The symptoms are diarrhea, which may be accompanied by a
little blood in the stool, colicky pain in the stomach and there may
also be fever.
Another form of dysentery is amoebic dysentery
(amoebiasis) caused by entamoeba hystolitica. Amoebic dysentery is less
severe but it drags on and is often difficult to cure. The symptom is
slow colicky pain and the stool is usually accompanied by mucus.
Australian asthma plant (Euphorbia hirta) (irawo ile, Yoruba) is the
herb of choice for amoebic dysentery. Use a decoction of the fresh
leaves. Half-ripe tomato juice and ripe pawpaw juice are also good for
amoebiasis. Herbal remedies abound for dysentery: such common herbs as
young cashew leaves, cloves (Eugenia aromatica) (kanafuru, Yoruba); the
bark of mango tree and mango leaves; Rauwolfia vomioria (asofeiyeje,
Yoruba); asparagus racemosus; and phyllanthus muellerianus (egungun eja,
Yoruba). A simple home remedy for dysentery is potash = rock salt
(kaun, Yoruba) in warm water. Take two times a day and it will clear the
dysentery. One teaspoon of the powder of young mango leaves mixed in a
glass and taken for a few days is good for dysentery.
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