What is Nauclea latifolia used for?
Medicinal uses vary from one traditional setting to another, its traditional uses include: fever, pain, dental caries, septic mouth, malaria, dysentery, diarrhea, and diseases of the central nervous system such as epilepsy (Arbonnier, 2000, Amos et al. Ngo Bum et al. Abbah et al. Used for the treatment of malaria, leprosy, debility, hypertension, gastrointestinal disorders, prolonged menstrual flow and sleeping sickness. Used for the treatment of fevers; pain; jaundice; indigestion; diarrhea; dysentery; and diabetes. The root bark is used as tonic, antipyretic, antidepressant and analgesic.
What is the Yoruba name for Nauclea latifolia?
Also known as Nauclea latifolia 💚💚 🌱 It is called Egbo egbesi in Yoruba, Ubulu inu in Ibo and Tabasiya in Hausa. Other names: Pin cushion tree, African peach, Scille maritime. Nauclea latifolia, also known by its common name African peach, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Nauclea.
What is the Twi name for Nauclea latifolia?
Nauclea latifolia Smith of the family Rubiaceae (Its local ‘Twi’ name is ‘Kusia’) is a scandent or straggling shrub in savannah woodland or small spreading tree, rarely over 20ft high, bole crooked; or a larger tree over 100ft high and 8ft girth, in closed forest; rough bark; leaves 7 by 4- 5 inches; glabrous obovate. Nauclea latifolia Smith (Rubiacea) is a small tree, found in tropical areas in Africa. It is used in traditional medicine to treat malaria, epilepsy, anxiety, pain, fever etc.