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[[underline]] Saypa [[/underline]] - young palm shoot, put in snake's mouth will tame him.

[[underline]] Zo [[/underline]] - used at palavers that can't be settled quickly.  It is also put in the snake's mouth after the fangs have been pulled. 

[[underline]] Lo [[/underline]] - is a painkiller, and is also put in the mouth before calling the snakes.

[[underline]] Fon [[/underline]] - when a snake fights, this plant is mashed and put on its head.  It makes the snake's head wise. 

[[underline]] See [[/underline]] - Chew the leaves before sucking a snake bite.

[[underline]] Bondeh [[/underline]] - Medicine to put in bracelet.  It is a fine vine with a prickly stem, and is used as a tourniquet in treating snake bite.  If the patient does not pay for his cure, this same vine is burned and the symptoms of poisoning return. 

[[underline]] Deefon [[/underline]] - a sort of crab grass.  Beaten with white clay, it reduces the swelling.

[[underline]] Worolu [[/underline]] - same as local name for bongo, being the plant the bongo is supposed to eat.  When snake-hunting, the bark of this tree is peeled and put in the mouth. 

[[underline]] Bawableh [[/underline]] - two kinds of leaves, cooked together with rice, the resultant soup being good medicine. 

[[underline]] Mialagli [[/underline]] - Rub leaves on hands and face, as a cure for fainting.

[[underline]] Gpung [[/underline]] - A stick is cut from this bush, pressed against the wound.  Then a needle is put in the stick, and the needle placed on the white plate.

[[underline]] Keh [[/underline]] - a creeping vine; a bit of it twisted and worn inside your hat keeps rain away.

[[underline]] Kling [[/underline]] - gives a latex like rubber.  If patient doesn't pay for cure, stick a needle in the kling.  In most cases the same leaf used as cure will bring the sickness back again, so the medicine man keeps a piece of it.  

[[underline]] Boogeh [[/underline]] -  thorn.  Put medicine on it, place it where your enemy will step on it, he then thinks he has been bitten by a snake.

[[underline]] Bokenneh [[/underline]] - the snake eats it to make his teeth big.

[[underline]] Dogbu [[/underline]] - a liniment for sore muscles.

[[underline]] Sengeh [[/underline]] - If a pregnant woman "have sass with a man" one shoot of sengeh is slipped inside another.  Then she is unable to deliver the child until the same leaf is brought in, mixed with clay, and rubbed on her stomach.

[[underline]] Jacua [[/underline]] -   when a cassada snake bites a man, jacua is beaten with clay, rubbed on the woulnd, and the snake's fang comes out. 

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Transcription Notes:
"Lo" shouldn't have a hyphen after it.