Plants, food and treatments used by BaKongo tribes in Uíge (northern Angola) to affect the quality and quantity of human breast milk

Table 2 The most frequently named plants, foods, and treatments to clean the breast milk production

Species	Common English name	Part	NC	RFC
Spondias mombin L.	Yellow mombin	L, B	80	0.364
Vernonia amygdalina Delile	Bitter leaf	L	24	0.109
Carica papaya L.	Papaya	L	15	0.068
Elaeis guineensis Jacq.	Oil palm	S	15	0.068
Morinda morindoides (Baker) Milne-Redh.	–	L	10	0.045
Abrus precatorius L.	Jequirity bean	L	9	0.046

Listed in order of the number of citations (NC) and the Relative Frequency of Citation (RFC); Part: leaves (L), bark (B), seeds (S)

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