Nigeria’s medicinal plants: Cissus populnea (Afato) - Punch Newspapers

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just discovered something that thrilled me and I will like to share it with you all. Over the week, we cut a male pawpaw tree in our compound. I never knew that pawpaw roots smell like pawpaw until the root was uprooted. A phytonutrient may be responsible for the smell. Nature is so interesting.

While I was preparing this article, I stumbled on an interview by Dr Ibrahim Lawal of the Bio-Medicinal Research Centre, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria. He talked extensively on Cissus populnea. He mentioned that it is the stem that is used for treating infertility and that it should be soaked for three days and it should be left for another 24 hours. Then it can be taken for seven days before another is prepared.

A soup made from the stick which is slimy after preparation is the main traditional food peculiar to the Idoma people of Benue State. It is usually prepared with bush meat and best served with pounded yam. It can also be eaten with semolina, eba and yam flour. This soup is usually prepared without the use of oil. It is the most respected and demanded food in all Idoma events such as; traditional weddings, burial ceremonies, birthdays and other festivities.

Its extracts have been credited with antibacterial properties, as an anti-trypanosomal plant and a source of gum powder. It is a component of a herbal anti-sickling Nigerian formula. In Benin Republic, it is used for its diuretic properties while in Ghana, it is used as a post-harvest ethnobotanical protectant. The aqueous extract of its stem bark is associated with aphrodisiac/fertility potential among the Yoruba-speaking people of South-West. The use of C.

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