Origin

Africa

Folk medicinal uses

The bark and the leaves are sometimes used for gonorrhoea and dysentry.

Bark - The bark boiled with Capsicum (pepper) seeds and those of Piper guineense are reputed a remedy for chest complaints in Equatorial Africa. A bark infusion with the bark of Coula edulis, Isolana letestui and Bertiera fistulosa with leaves of Alchornea cordifolia and other ingredients is used by the Bupunus to cure sterility in women (Walker, 1953). Women rub the powdered bark on their bodies.

Some medicinal forest plants of Africa and Latin America 67/ FAO. – FAO: Rome, 1986. – p. 162.