Umckaloabo root

Charles Henry Stevens, an Englishman with lung disease, was cured of his lung disease in 1897 by a native doctor in South Africa, Mike Chichitse (Kijitse). He tried to introduce the remedy in England, published in Secret remedies. A medical and legal dispute began, which lasted for decades, see Lit stelle 5.

In 1930 Dr. Adrien Sechehaye published a study on 800 patients for the treatment of tuberculosis. Phytotherapeutically, Umckaloabo is used today to treat colds with respiratory symptoms.

Phytotherapeutically used are the dried, underground parts (Pelargonium root - Pelargonii radix).

1. Sechehaye A. (1930) The Treatment of Pulmonary and Surgical Tuberculosis with Umckaloabo. Internal Medication - Stevens' Cure
2. 'An English Physician' (1931) Tuberculosis, Its Treatment and Cure with the Help of Umckaloabo (Stevens). London: B Fraser & Co
3. Sechehaye A. (1948) Le traitement des affections tuberculoses par l'umcka. Geneva: R Cavadini
4. https://arzneipflanzenlexikon.info/kapland-pelargonie.php.
5. Newsom SWB (2002) Stevens' cure: a secret remedy J R Soc Med. 95(9): 463-467. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1279998/
6. Wenigmann M. (2017) Phytotherapy medicinal drugs, phytopharmaceuticals, application. Urban & Fischer, pp.168-169