POPULAR GHANAIAN FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND SPICES INSIGHTS

ADASEMA (Chrysophyllum africanum)

Family Name: 

Sapotaceae

Local Name: 

Adasema, Alasa, Adasa

Uses As Per Literature: 

The latex from the bark and young fruit is used as birdlime. A bark infusion is used in traditional medicine as a stomachic and carminative. A maceration of the stem bark is taken to promote lactation. Powdered bark is applied to sores. The fruit is used to treat diarrhoea and vomiting. The seed oil is edible, and the seeds are also used to make soap.
Source: Useful Tropical Plants Database 2014

Traditional Uses: 

Fruit pulp is eaten as a fruit.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods

Seasons Available: 

Rainy Season

Food Category: 

Fruits

How it is eaten: 

Raw

Part eaten: 

Fruit

Tetrapleura tetraptera ( PREKESE)

Family Name: 

Fabaceae

Local Name: 

Prekese

Uses As Per Literature: 

The bark is used to treat gastric ulcer and dysentery. The fruit is used to treat malaria
Source: Useful Tropical Plants Database 2014

Traditional Uses: 

Food: Fruit pulp is used for flavouring food especially soup.
Medicine: The fruits are used in the treatment of hypertension and headache.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods and Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Hypertension
• Headache

Food Category: 

Fruits

Parkia biglobosa ( DAWADAWA)

Family Name: 

Fabaceae

Local Name: 

Dawadawa

Uses As Per Literature: 

Food: The leaves are sometimes eaten as a vegetable, usually after boiling and then mixed with other foods such as cereal flour. Young flower buds are added to mixed salads.
Medicine: In West Africa the bark, roots, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds are commonly used in traditional medicine to treat a wide diversity of complaints, both internally and externally, sometimes in combination with other medicinal plants. The bark is most important for medicinal uses, followed by the leaves. Medicinal applications include the treatment of parasitic infections, circulatory system disorders, such as arterial hypertension, and disorders of the respiratory system, digestive system and skin
Source: www.prota4u.org

Traditional Uses: 

Food: Seeds are processed into a nutritious spice or condiment, which is used to prepare stews and soup.
Medicine: Seeds are also used to treat boils.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods and Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Boils

Food Category: 

Vegetables

Tieghemella heckelii  ( ABAKO)

Family Name: 

Sapotaceae

Local Name: 

Abako

Uses As Per Literature: 

The bark is effective for treating blennorrhoea and toothache, and in Liberia young buds are used to treat snake bites.
Source:www.prota4u.org

Traditional Uses: 

Food: Edible oil is extracted from the seed which is used in making food.
Medicine: Seeds are used in the  treatment of hernia.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods and Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Hernia

Food Category: 

Fruits

Psidium guajava ( EGUABA)

Family Name: 

Myrtaceae

Local Name: 

Guava

Uses As Per Literature: 

 The dried ripe fruits are recommended as a remedy for dysentery, while the leaves and fruits are used as a cure for diarrhoea. A decoction of the leaves or bark is taken externally as a lotion for skin complaints, ringworm, wounds and ulcers.
Source: Agroforestry Database 4.0 (Orwa et al.2009)

Traditional Uses: 

Food: Fresh ripe fruits are eaten raw.
Medicine: Leaves are used to treat measles, diarrhoea and small pox.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods and Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Measles
• Diarrhoea
• Small pox (Chicken pox)

Food Category: 

Fruits

Cola nitida ( BESE)

Family Name: 

Malvaceae

Local Name: 

Bese

Traditional Uses: 

Food: Fruit is used as a stimulant when chewed to reduce fatigue, prevent hunger pangs, increase mental activity and reduce the need for sleep.
Medicine: Seed is used to treat shingles.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods and Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Shingles

Food Category: 

Fruits

Deinbollia grandifolia ( ASIKOTO)

Family Name: 

Sapindaceae

Local Name: 

Adwea, Asikoto

Uses As Per Literature: 

The fleshy fruit pulp is edible and the slightly oily seeds are eaten as well. Juice from the mashed inner bark is used as eye-drops to treat jaundice.
Source: www.prota4u.org

Traditional Uses: 

Fleshy fruit pulp is eaten as a fruit.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods

Seasons Available: 

Rainy Season

Food Category: 

Fruits

How it is eaten: 

Raw

Part eaten: 

Fruit pulp

Spondias Mombin ( ATOA)

Family Name: 

Anacardiaceae

Local Name: 

Atoa

Uses As Per Literature: 

The fruit pulp is either eaten fresh or made into juice, concentrate, jellies, and sherbets. The bark is used as a purgative and in local applications for leprosy. The bark decoction is also used in the treatment of severe cough (Echeme et al. 2014). It serves as an emetic, a remedy for diarrhea, dysentery, haemorrhoids and a treatment for gonorrhoea and leucorrhea (Ayoka et al, 2008)
References:
Ayoka, A.O.; R.O. Akomolafe, O.S. Akinsomisoye, and O.E.Ukponmwan (2008). Medicinal and Economic Value of Spondias mombin. African Journal of Biomedical Research 11(2): 129–136.
Echeme, J.O.,  Ahuchogu, A.A., and  Uchegbu, R. I. (2014) American Journal of Chemistry and Applications 1(3): 28-31

Traditional Uses: 

Food: The fuit pulp is eaten as a fruit.
Medicine: Bark is used in the treatment of fracture and convulsion. The bark also facilitates child delivery.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods and Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Fracture
• Convulsion

Seasons Available: 

Dry Season

Food Category: 

Fruits

Artocarpus altilis  ( DEEBALL)

Family Name: 

Moraceae

Local Name: 

Deeball

Uses As Per Literature: 

Traditional Uses: 

The fruit is cooked or roasted and eaten raw or with stew.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods

Food Category: 

Carbohydrates

How it is eaten: 

Cook

Part eaten: 

Fruit

Solanum torvum ( AMADWIRIDI)

Brief Info: 

It is also known as turkey berry.

Family Name: 

‎Solanaceae

Local Name: 

Abeduro, Kwahunsusuaa,Yaa Asantewaa, Abedwiridi

Traditional Uses: 

Food: Used as food in making stews and soup
Medicine: Leaves are used in the treatment of boils, asthma and anaemia. Young fruits are taken to treat anaemia.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods and Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Boil
• Asthma
• Anaemia

Seasons Available: 

All Year Round

Food Category: 

Vegetables

( ASAA) Synsepalum dulcificum

Family Name: 

Sapotaceae

Local Name: 

Asaa

Traditional Uses: 

Food: The fruit pulp is used as a sweetener.
Medicine: The roots are used to treat waist pains. The leaves are used to treat measles.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods and Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Waist pains
• Measles

Seasons Available: 

Rainy Season

Food Category: 

Fruits

( TUANTINI) Paullinia pinnata

Family Name: 

Sapindaceae

Local Name: 

Tuantini

Uses As Per Literature: 

Leaves are cooked as a vegetable. Leaves are used to treat metabolic disorders in young children.
Source: Useful Tropical Plants Database 2014

Traditional Uses: 

Roots are used as an aphrodisiac. It is also used in the treatment of sores.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Sexual weakness

( KAGYA) Griffonia simplicifolia

Family Name: 

Fabaceae

Local Name: 

Kagya

Uses As Per Literature: 

The leaves are used in the production of palm wine, and give the wine a bitter taste. Sap that exudes from cut stems can be drunk to quench thirst. The leaf sap is drunk or applied as an enema to cure kidney problems. The leaf sap is used as eye drops to cure inflamed eyes. An extract from the powdered roots has been used to treat sickle cell anaemia.
Source (Useful Tropical Plants Database 2014)

Traditional Uses: 

Leaves are used in the treatment of boil, fresh wound, sore in the head and insect stink.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Sore in head
• Insect stink
• Boil

( ABOOTRE) Senna siamea

Family Name: 

Fabaceae

Local Name: 

Abootre

Uses As Per Literature: 

Food: The young fruits and leaves are eaten as a vegetable. The flowers and young fruits are used in curries.
Medicine:The fruit is used to charm away intestinal worms and to prevent convulsions in children. The heartwood is said to be a laxative, and a decoction is used against scabies
Source: Useful Tropical Plants Database 2014

Traditional Uses: 

The leaves are used to treat malaria.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Malaria

( APOSOMPO) Boerhavia diffusa

Family Name: 

Nyctinaceae

Local Name: 

Aposompo

Uses As Per Literature: 

A root decoction is also taken to treat anaemia and applied externally to yaws, while the powdered root can be mixed with butter or oil to treat abdominal tumours. A decoction of the root is also taken to treat heart troubles, palpitations and jaundice. In Congo root sap is rubbed on the neck and throat to treat mumps, laryngitis and burns. In water or palm oil, or in a decoction, it is taken to treat spleen troubles, diarrhoea, dysentery, haematuria and gonorrhoea. The root is also considered abortifacient and used to hasten parturition. The roots are also applied as a snakebite antidote, and as an aphrodisiac.
Source: http://uses.plantnet-project.org/en/Boerhavia_diffusa_(PROTA)

Traditional Uses: 

The leaves are used to treat  boil.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Boil

( MEMYENEMENYENE) Thevetia neriifolia

Family Name: 

APOCYNACEAE

Local Name: 

Memyenemenyene

Uses As Per Literature: 

The leaves in decoction are taken to treat jaundice, fever and as a purgative for intestinal worms.
Source: www.prota4u.org

Traditional Uses: 

The leaves are used to treat headache.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Headache

Aspilia africana

Family Name: 

Compositae

Local Name: 

Nfofo

Uses As Per Literature: 

The leaves are also used to treat a range of other conditions:- they are made into a cough-medicine for children; a leaf-concoction is taken for gonorrhoea; a decoction is used to wash the face and eyes to relieve feverish headache; a leaf-infusion is taken to assist in childbirth and also to increase milk flow; an infusion, mixed with white clay, is taken to treat stomach-troubles
Source: Useful Tropical Plants Database 2014

Traditional Uses: 

The leaves are used in the treatment of  diarrhoea and stomach ulcer.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Diarrhoea
• Stomach ulcer

( PEPEDIEWUO) Solanum erianthum

Family Name: 

Solanaceae

Local Name: 

Pepediewuo

Uses As Per Literature: 

In West Africa a leaf decoction of Solanum erianthum is taken for its diuretic and purgative properties to cure malaria, leprosy and venereal diseases and it is also taken to stimulate the liver functions. (Modise, D.M. & Mogotsi, K.K., 2008. Solanum erianthum D.Don. In: Schmelzer, G.H. & Gurib-Fakim, A. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. Accessed 26 August 2016)
The leaf juice is used as a rinse for sores in the mouth (www.worldagroforestry.org)

Traditional Uses: 

The leaves are used to treat piles.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Piles

( WUDIFOKETE) Anthocleista nobilis

Family Name: 

LOGANIACEAE

Local Name: 

Wudifokete/Bontodee

Uses As Per Literature: 

A root decoction is commonly taken to treat constipation, to regulate menstruation and as an abortifacient. It is used as a wash, bath or vapour bath to treat leprosy, venereal diseases, oedema and scrotal elephantiasis. In Sierra Leone a decoction of the roots with lemon is taken to treat hepatitis.
Source: www.prota4u.org

Traditional Uses: 

The roots are used in the treatment of infectious disease of the throat (diphtheria) and also good for curing gonorrhea. “The leaves are used for aiding toddlers to walk”.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Diphtheria
• Gonorrhea

( ANWONOMOASE) Thaumatococcus daniellii

Family Name: 

Marantaceae

Local Name: 

Anwonomoase

Uses As Per Literature: 

The aril of the seed contains a sweet-tasting protein (thaumatin) that can be used as a substitute for sugar, also in low caloric diets and drinks
Source: Useful Tropical Plants Database 2014

Traditional Uses: 

The fruit obtained from the roots are eaten raw.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods

Food Category: 

Fruits

How it is eaten: 

Raw

Part eaten: 

Fruit

( BONTO) Nicotiana tabacum

Family Name: 

Solanaceae

Local Name: 

Bonto

Traditional Uses: 

Leaves are used to treat waist pains, toothache and headache.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Headache
• Waist pain
• Toothache

( ABIREKYIRE ABODWESE) Sporobolus pyramidalis

Family Name: 

Poaceae

Local Name: 

Abirekyire abodwese/ Aponkye abodwese

Traditional Uses: 

The root is used in the treatment ear problems, infertility and boil. It is also used to heal swellings. The leaves also help to stop bleeding from cuts.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Ear problems
• Swelling
• Boils 
• Infertility

(NKUDUA) Vitellaria paradoxa

Family Name: 

Sapotaceae

Local Name: 

Nkudua

Uses As Per Literature: 

The leaves are used to treat stomach ache. They are also added to vapour baths to treat headache and as an eye bath.
Source:Useful Tropical Plants Database 2014

Traditional Uses: 

Edible oil is extracted from the seed which is used in making food.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods

Food Category: 

Vegetable Oils

How it is eaten: 

Cook

Part eaten: 

Fruit/Seed

( NKORAKORABODIE)Senna occidentalis

Family Name: 

leguminaceae

Local Name: 

Nkorakorabodie

Uses As Per Literature: 

The seeds are dried, roasted then ground into a powder and used as a coffee substitute. Young leaves, immature seedpods and flowers are steamed and eaten as a vegetable.
Source: Useful Tropical Plants Database 2014

Traditional Uses: 

The leaves are used in the treatment of fever, stomach ache and boil. The roots are also used in the treatment of dysmenorrhoea and measles.
Seeds are used to treat hypertension.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Fever
• Stomach ache
• Boil
• Dysmenorrhoea
• Measles
• Hypertension

( BOMMAGUWAKYI) Phyllanthus fraternus

Family Name: 

Phyllanthaceae

Local Name: 

Bommaguwakyi

Uses As Per Literature: 

The plant extract is reported to be strongly diuretic and taken to allay spasms, such as griping in dysentery, and the plant is also used as a laxative and to treat gonorrhoea and malaria. It is externally applied to treat skin infections.

Reference: Oudhia, P., 2008. Phyllanthus fraternus G.L.Webster. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. Schmelzer, G.H. & Gurib-Fakim, A. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed 20 September 2016.

Traditional Uses: 

Leaves are used in the treatment of typhoid and  fever. It is also taken to cure stomach pain and to facilitate child delivery.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Typhoid
• Fever
• Stomach pain

(BOKOBOKO, KUTUBETSEW)Talinum triangulare

Family Name: 

Talinaceae

Local Name: 

Bokoboko

Uses As Per Literature: 

Used as a colouring agent in okra soup.
In Cameroon, Talinum triangulare is used as a treatment for measles, whereas in Assam (India), it is used to treat diabetes. In Indonesia a tonic is made from the fleshy root.
(Fontem, D.A. & Schippers, R.R., 2004. Talinum triangulare (Jacq.) Willd. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. Grubben, G.J.H. & Denton, O.A. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed 23 August 2016.)

Traditional Uses: 

Leaves are used in making stews and soup.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods

Food Category: 

Vegetables

How it is eaten: 

Cook

Part eaten: 

Leaves

( AYOYO)Corchorus olitorius

Family Name: 

Malvaceae

Local Name: 

Ayoyo

Uses As Per Literature: 

The cooked leaves form a slimy sticky sauce, comparable to okra. In Nigeria this sauce is found suitable for easy consumption of starchy balls made from cassava, yam or millet. A powder prepared from dried leaves is used to prepare this sauce during the dry season. The immature fruits, called bush okra, are also dried and ground to a powder for the preparation of this slimy sauce. In East Africa several recipes exist, e.g. Jew’s mallow may be cooked with cowpeas, pumpkin, cocoyam leaves, sweet potato, milk and butter, meat, and flavoured with peppers and lemon.
Reference:  (Fondio, L. & Grubben, G.J.H., 2011. Corchorus olitorius L. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. Brink, M. & Achigan-Dako, E.G. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed 23 August 2016.

Traditional Uses: 

The leaves are used as vegetable in making stews and salad.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods

Food Category: 

Vegetables

How it is eaten: 

Cook

Part eaten: 

Leaves

( NTUMUNUM) Justicia flava

Family Name: 

Acanthaceae

Local Name: 

Afama/ntumunum

Uses As Per Literature: 

<p>In Guinea the leaves of <em>Justicia flava</em> are used as a vegetable collected from the wild. They are cooked into soup or stew. The plant is also considered as a good forage. In Kenya the plant contributes to sand-binding vegetation in coastal dunes and sandy river banks and leaves are burnt to ash to produce a vegetable salt. In Tanzania the leaves are reported to be emetic, in Côte d’Ivoire haemostatic. Preparations are used on cuts and to treat menorrhagia, and blood in the sputum. The whole crushed plant, mixed with vegetable ash, seed of <em>Aframomum</em> species and capsicum pepper is administered by enema against painful menses, or, mixed with lemon juice, taken to induce menstruation. In Côte d’Ivoire the pulped leaves are rubbed on the skin to treat convulsions and feverish pains in babies. In Ghana the plant is used internally and externally against fever, yaws and diarrhoea in children. The inflorescence is said to be a cure for dysentery. An infusion of the plant is taken with egg albumen and coconut juice against palpitations of the heart and leaf sap is used as an eye lotion. In Tanzania leaf sap is taken against hookworm and to treat hydrocele, including bathing the affected parts. The bitter root is chewed by the Masai to cure diarrhoea and coughs.
source: www.prota4u.org</p>

Traditional Uses: 

Foods: Leaves are also used as a vegetable for stews and soup.
Medicines: Leaves are used in the treatment of stomach ache, menstrual disorders and also helps to stop bleedin.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods and Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Stomach ache
• Dysmenorrhoea

Food Category: 

Vegetables

( AWONWONO) Vernonia amygdalina

Family Name: 

Compositae

Local Name: 

Awonwono

Traditional Uses: 

Food: Leaves are used as a vegetable in stews and soups.
Medicine: Leaves are used in the treatment of heartache, menstrual pain and for foetal strength. The leaves are also used to boost apetite.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods and Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Heart ache
• Dysmenorrhoea

Food Category: 

Vegetables

( AKOBOWERE) Pisonia aculeata

Family Name: 

Nyctaginaceae

Local Name: 

Akobowere

Uses As Per Literature: 

The leaves are used, either fresh or in decoction, to treat skin problems such as scabies and ulcers.  The roots are purgative. They are also used to treat cough.
Source:Useful Tropical Plants Database 2014

Traditional Uses: 

Bark is used in the treatment of cough, chest pains and also used as an aphrodiac (sexual weakness).

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Cough
• Chest pains
• Sexual weakness

( DANDELION) Taraxacum officinale

Family Name: 

Asteraceae

Local Name: 

*Dandelion

Uses As Per Literature: 

The herb is used to treat jaundice and the yellowing of the skin that comes with liver dysfunction, cirrhosis, hepatitis and liver disease. Source: http://www.herbwisdom.com/herb-dandelion.html last accessed 22/09/2016

Traditional Uses: 

Food: Leaves are used as vegetable in making stews and salad.
Medicine: Leaves are used to treat heart diseases.

Plant Category: 

Forest Foods and Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Heart diseases

Food Category: 

Vegetables

(OTIE) Pycnanthus angolensis

Family Name: 

Myristicaceae

Local Name: 

Otie

Uses As Per Literature: 

Preparations made from the bark are used as a potent purgative, to cleanse the milk of lactating mothers and to treat coughs and chest complaints. In Côte d’Ivoire, bark is used as a poison antidote and against ascites and leprosy. In Congo the bark is used to treat a number of gynaecological problems, from infertility to gonorrhoea. In Côte d’Ivoire a root macerate mixed with parts of other plants is taken by draught to treat schistosomiasis. In São Tomé the bark is used to treat malaria.
Source:www.prota4u.org

Traditional Uses: 

Bark is used to treat fever and rheumatism.  A decoction of the bark is taken to treat anaemia.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Fever
• Rheumatism
• Anaemia

( NYAMEDUA) Alstonia boonei

Family Name: 

Apocynaceae

Local Name: 

Osenuro (nyamedua)

Uses As Per Literature: 

The bark, leaves and roots are all used to relieve rheumatic pain and other pains. The leaf-sap is used to cleanse sores. The bark sap is used externally to treat some skin-complaints. In Ghana a decoction is given after childbirth to promote expulsion of the afterbirth.
Source: Useful Tropical Plants Database 2014

Traditional Uses: 

Bark is used to treat measles.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Measles

(OFRAM) Terminalia superba

Family Name: 

Combretaceae

Local Name: 

Ofram

Uses As Per Literature: 

Bark decoctions and macerations are used in traditional medicine to treat wounds, sores, haemorrhoids, diarrhoea, dysentery, malaria, vomiting, gingivitis, bronchitis, aphthae, swellings and ovarian troubles, and as an expectorant and anodyne. The leaves serve as diuretic and roots as laxative
Source:www.prota4u.org

Traditional Uses: 

Bark is used in the treatment of diarrhoea whilst leaves are used to treat fracture

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Diarrhoea 
• Fracture

(ODUM) Milicia excelsa

Family Name: 

Moraceae

Local Name: 

Odum

Uses As Per Literature: 

A root decoction is taken to treat female sterility. A decoction of the root and stem bark is taken as an aphrodisiac. Preparations from the bark are taken to treat cough, asthma, heart trouble, lumbago, spleen pain, stomach pain, abdominal pain, oedema, ascites, dysmenorrhoea, gonorrhoea, general fatigue, rheumatism, sprains, and as a galactagogue, aphrodisiac, tonic and purgative. Bark preparations are externally applied to treat scabies, wounds, loss of hair, fever, venereal diseases and sprains. They are applied as an enema to cure piles, diarrhoea and dysentery. The latex is applied on burns, wounds, sores and against eczema and other skin problems. It is also taken against stomach problems, hypertension and as a galactagogue, and it is used for treatment of tumours and obstructions of the throat. Leaves are eaten to treat insanity; a leaf maceration is drunk as a galactagogue. A decoction of the leaves is taken for treatment of gallstones. Leaf preparations are externally applied to treat snakebites and fever and as eye drops to treat filariasis.

Source: www.prota4u.org

Traditional Uses: 

Bark is used in the treatmet of scabies and yaws.

Plant Category: 

Medicinal Plants

Disease Treated: 

• Scabbies
• Yaws