Origin

Africa

Folk medicinal uses

Cola nuts - In Ghana, some traditional healers sometimes add extracts from cola nuts to certain drugs to make the drugs more effective. The crushed nuts are boiled together with the the leaves of Morinda lucida and the liquid taken internally to cure piles. The nuts ground to a fine paste together with the leaves of Scoparia dulce, are dissolved in a little water and a few drops are administered orally to babies for headache. In Lagos, cola nuts given along with European drugs enable patients to do without food and so rest the digestive organs (Dr. O. Shapara ex. Dalziel, 1936).

Bark - An infusion of the bark mixed with ginger and a little pepper is taken internally to cure stomach ulcers. The nuts, preferably the white variety, ground to a fine paste together with white clay, a little pepper, ginger or Piper guineense fruits are applied as an enema for the cure of diarrhoea and dysentry (Traditional Medicine)

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Origin:
Nigeria
Part used
stem,bark,seeds,kernel
Medicinal uses
Diarrhoeas

1) Some medicinal forest plants of Africa and Latin America 67/ FAO. – FAO: Rome, 1986. – p. 96.

2) Abd El-Ghani1, Monier M./ Traditional medicinal plants of Nigeria: an overview: Agric. Biol. J. N. Am., 2016, 7(5): 220-247. - p. 240.