Medicine Bundle

a- pieces of dried leaflets of raphia [pot]. The pot leaves are hung up in a plantation [see itu kerosene]. A respasser is taken ill with violent attacks of vomiting. To cure this, leaves of bana ayen are crushed in water, the wus sekel is dipped in the water which the patient then drinks. For the general method of administering an antidote, see itu kerosene. The presence of the "bad [i.e. harmful] medicine" when the antidote is administered is usually essential. "Medicine" must be "redeemed" -i.e. actual value must be received by the vendor or the "medicine" will not act. To render the "medicine" effective, it is also necessary for the purchaser to call the name of the vendor and of the deceased originator of the concoction when it is put to use.