1. I met some locals in northern Peru (Chachapoyas) who advised a concoction of Ricinus communis as a treatment for stomach ache – it sounded too final a solution for me [Beckenham, Kent, May 2001].
Image: cultivated as an ornamental, Forbury Gardens, Reading, Berkshire; September 2014.
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