Daisy
Southern Noumeneas: asas
Terminalia cattapa
Skin fungus: The stem is cut and boiled in water. The water is used for shower [bath] to treat the skin fungus known as sensen. The term sensen is also used by Pohnpeians.
Billy
Pohnpei: Topwuk
Premna obtusifolia
Flu: Put leaves in boiling hot water. Place pot under a sheet with the patient. Patient "bathes" in the steam. This form of treatment is known as umwulap.
Boil (staph infection): Put one young leaf on the boil to help bring it to a head. Change often. A boil is called umwpwos.
Chickenpox: Pound the fruit. Release juice. Rub on the skin, although may be mixed with another plant.
Marcyleen
Pohnpeian: kelakelamwahn
Possibly orchidiaceae. Epiphytic on trees, pendulant.
Trouble: Take four young leaves, chew them if you are in trouble so your parents may not punish you.
Nervousness: If you have to present in public, chew four leaves to reduce anxiety.
Percy
Woleai: Faliyape
Apple tree leaf.
White skin dot rash on baby: Cut leaves and put in a wrap [notes unclear on what wrap is made of]. Put over a fire [briefly]. Put [hot?] leaf in water. Put water into baby bottle. Feed to baby.
For long hair: Put young leaves, pre-chlorophyllic, in oil. Rub into hair. Leave for four days without washing.
Maryruth
Kosraen: sra kito
Cassia alata
White spot on skin: Called tuhntuhn. While bathing, scrub the skin with the leaves for three to four weeks.
Skin itch: Called srihng. Treat as above.
Covered with many small pimples: Called mwesrmwesr. Treat as above.
Ringworm: Called kito. Treat as above.
Hellen
Mortlocks: asas
Pohnpeian: dipwoapw
Terminalia cattapa
Red dots on baby skin including on inner thighs [heat rash?]: Collect only the bright red leaves. Boil in a pot of water until the water turns dark maroon in color. This color is called kung>/em> in the Mortlocks. Pour the water from the pot into a basin. Do not add additional water. Let the water cool. Bathe the baby in the water three times a day for three days.
Wound closure: The trunk bark can be removed, scraped down to the red part, then the bark is pounded until soft. Squeeze the juice out onto a wound to close the wound and heal it.
White dots on face: Scrape the bark skin, grill a coconut [possibly cook over an open fire to toast/roast it slightly], grind the coconut, mix with bark scrapings. Use on face. By the third day the mixture will smell bad. Still use it. Only after a week of treatment can the mixture be thrown away.
Alexander
Pohnpei: Peren en lopwolopw, karer
Citrifolia
High fever with chills, shakes, "jumping fever": Use the stems. Clean off the black fungus. Scrape the skin of the stem, or bark. Put in a cloth. Squeeze juice into cup. Drink juice.
Jellyfish sting: Use the fruit. Cut in half. Apply half to sting.
Hundra:
Pohnpei: Oaioa or Aiau
Ficus prolixa
Long hair: use the leaves, applied to the hair. Specifics of application - oil or water emulsion - not clarified.
[Unclear] To make [blood?] in the body: Cut root into pieces. Usage unclear.
Plant has red fruit with small seeds.
Wihper
Pohnpei: Apwud, apwid
Prevention of disease in babies: Produce juice form a single yellow leaf. Give to baby to prevent flu.
Diarhea: Scrape the bark. Squeeze to produce juice. Drink.
[Material cultural usage] Toilet paper: Use leaves.
Nixon
Pohnpei: kuapa
Diarhea: Collect as many young leaves as you can. Chew. [Editor's note: prior reports specify four leaves, sometimes or eight, but usually four and only four.]
Katherine
Mwoakilloa: soahn supwuk
Pohnpei: tehn topwuk
Premna obtusifolia
Post-delivery of baby, healing after labor: Boil many leaves until water is brown and put the mother into the water [after it cools].
Marcelino
Southern Noumeneas: maii
Breadfruit leaves
Spirit illness in baby: If a baby always cries by the time/before the sun goes down, the baby is believed to have bad spirit/ghost sickness. The young leaves, the new unfurled leaves, are used along with [notes unclear] all those branches along with nior [to chase the ghost away].
Diarhea due to family issues: If the father of a baby goes with another woman, the baby can develop diarhea. In this instance the young leaf is mixed with coconut milk - the juice squeezed from the meat of the coconut - to treat the diarhea. In the rare event that the mother has gone with another man, the baby can also develop diarhea and this treatment can be used. Diarhea in a baby may be taken as a sign of infidelity in the parents. [Editor's note: this is a good example of a disease existing within a specific cultural context and having a particular cultural meaning. Treatment presumably includes the offending partner terminating the extramarital relationship.]
Love: A five fingered (lobed) breadfruit leaf can be used for magic among those having strong belief. If a [boy] likes a girl but it is hard to get along with her, the boy can go sit or stand [in location relative to the girl] and sing a song [chant?]. This works for high titles or chiefs.
Qulihter
Pohnpei: mwehk
Instill initial appetite in baby: At about six months, to increase appetite and make the baby want to eat, the mother should chew four to eight mwehk leaves and pwurak (spit) the juice of the leaves into the baby's mouth in the morning before the baby eats.