HEALTH GIANTS ~Series one~Terminalia plant

Terminalia glaucescens.......heard of this plant before???

Hello lovely people  Today mark the first part of my series tagged""Health giants"" today i will be discussing about a special plant called Terminalia glaucescens. A number of studies have been carried out on the ethnomedical uses of Terminalia species in Africa. Terminalia glaucescens have various applications in African traditional medicine, such as for the treatment of hypertension, diarrhea, bacterial and fungal infections and fever, just to mention some of them. In Africa, all parts of the plant are used for medicinal purposes, the fruits being reported to be used in only one case. In herbal remedies Terminalia glaucescens are mostly used as hot water decoctions (woody plant parts) or infusions (leaves), but it is also common to mix dried, powdered plant parts with Ugali, maize porridge, and in some cases the fresh leaf sap is used.

 Sometimes decoctions of Terminalia glaucescens are mixed with rice or maize porridge. It is also use for the treatment of wounds, and are then applied as dressings or ointments. Sometimes the fumes of hot fomentations of the roots are inhaled for treatment of chest pains, presumably pneumonia or bronchitis.  In the Central African Republic Terminalia glaucescens is used for treatment of dysentery and other microbial infections and the leaves are reported to be useful in the last phase of AIDS.

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