🌍African Traditional Medicine
Caterpillar Pod
Elephantorrhiza elephantina
About Caterpillar Pod
Caterpillar Pod (Elephantorrhiza elephantina) is a herb used in the African Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Diarrhea, Dysentery, and Wound Healing. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Entada elephantina, commonly known as the eland's wattle or elephant's root, is a subshrub in the mimosoid clade of legumes. They occur widely and in several bioregions of southern Africa in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Lesotho. Considerable size variation has been noted, and polyploidy was suspected.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · bothLeaves · both