Origin

Abeokuta, Nigeria

Action:

Seed

For skin irritation

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Origin

Africa

Folk medicinal uses

Fruit - A decoction of fruit of X. aethiopica, root bark of Strychnos inoqua, Gardenia tennifolia. Olax subscorpoidea. Uvaria chamae and Anonna senegalensis is drunk aa a remedy for stomach-ache. Salt may be added for taste. Open dried fruit without seeds is burnt, ground into powder and mixed with red palm oil as a treatment for coughs. A decoction of seven fruits of X. Aethiopica, leaves of Alstonia boonei, and Wissadula amplissima is used to bathe children as an anticonvulsant. A soup of ground fruits of I. aethiopica, cochleata is taken as a remedy for dizziness. the Yoruba native decoction (Agbo).

Stem bar - A decoction of stem bark of Newbouldia leaves and fruit of X. aethiopica is drunk as a remedy for ammenorrhoea.

Bark or fruit - According to Dalziel (1937), a fluid extract or a decoction of the fruit or bark, is useful in the treatment of bronchitis, and dysenteric conditions, and also as a medicine for biliousness. As a women's remedy it is taken to encourage fertility.

Leaves – A poultice of the leaves and fruit is appled as a cure for headache and neuralgia.

1) MacDonald Idu; Erhabor,Joseph O.; Efijuemue, Harriet M. / Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research. – v. 9 no. 2, 2021. – p 4.

2) Some medicinal forest plants of Africa and Latin America 67/ FAO. – FAO: Rome, 1986. – p. 626.