Related article: 40 50 9\0 5/0 4/0 3/0 2/0 1. BOTANICAL NAME: Anthocleista nobilis G.Don FAMILY Loganiaceae COMMON NAMES: Cabbage Palm, Cabbage Tree; Hororoho (Fante); Awudifoakete, Bontodi (Twi, Ashanti, Wasaw), 2. ECOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION Anthocleista nobilis is a lower canopy tree occurring in transitional and secondary forests. On the whole it is sparseiy but fairly evenly distributed, even in the drier parts of the semi-deciduous forests (see distribution map). It is common however in forest clearings. It is often left standing Erythromycin Es 400 Mg Tab on farms because of its medicinal properties. It prefers well-drained soils and a rainfall of between 1100mm and 2000mm and a o termperature not exceeding 35 C. It generally prefers Erythromycin Es 400 Mg Tab Abb low lying ground not exceeding 300m above sea level but can occur up to 1200m. It is a Erythromycin Ees 400 Mg Tab Abbo West African species found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana (see distribution map). 3. DESCRIPTION A tree up to about 18m high, 15-45(-90)cm in diameter, bark smooth, light grey, slash cream-yellow and granular; bole free of branches for up to 15m, crown small with ascending, hollow branches, twigs with two divergent spines above the leaf axils. Leaves crowded at the apices of the branchlets, opposite, subequal, sessile or shortly petiolate; petioles up to l/6th as long as the blade; blade oblong-elliptic, obovate-elliptic or oblanceolate, up to 6.5-40cm long, 4-12cm wide, larger Erythromycin Stada 1000 Mg Granulat on young trees, discolorous, dark green above, glaucous below. Inflorescence erect, branched, terminal cymes, 12-60cm long, borne on conspicuously long peduncles; flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous; sepals orbicular to ovate-elliptic, 7-10mm long, 4.5-13mm wide; corolla white, tubular, fleshy, 30-45mm long with 11-14 oblong lobes; stamens attached to the corolla tube and protruding. Fruits ellipsoid berries 2-2. 5cm in diameter with persistent calyx; seeds numerous, dark brown, obliquely ovate-orbicular, 2-2. 5mm long, 1.2-1. 7mm wide. (Leeuenberg, 1961). Flowering and fruiting cycle uncertain; flowering specimens have been recorded for most months of the year. 4. ESTABLISHED Erythromycin 1000 Mg Db MODERN PHARMACEUTICAL USES An antidiabetic, hypoglycaemic effect of an alcoholic extract from the root bark of Anthocleista nobilis on the blood sugar is reported. The active principles and its chemical structure is in the process of elucidation. Dual activity (hypotensive and hypoglycaemic) Erythromycin Ophthalmic Ointment Prescription may be valuable in the therapeutics of obese adult diabetics who usually present hypertension clinically (Lutterodt, 1976). At Azithromycin Ratiopharm 1000 Mg Mampeng Akwapim the root is reported to be an effective remedy for diabetes (Centre for Scientific Research into Medicinal Plants). The root decoction is used as a purge for fever (Dalziel, 1936). The Erythromycin Ees 400 Mg plant (mainly the bark) is commonly prescribed in the Ivory Coast when violent action on the intestines is desired (Kerharo and Bouquet, I960). A plant which is commonly used in Gabon and West Coast medicines (Abb Walker, 1953), The bark is an ingredient in remedies for several diseases (Abbe Walker, 1953). 5. FOLK MEDICINAL USES In Ghana, the bark is boiled with water and the liquid extract Can You Get Erythromycin Over The Counter taken once a day for the cure of piles, intestinal and abdominal troubles and worms. 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The pulped bark is used an enema for Oxyuris (thread worm) and other intestinal parasites in children. The young green shoots are powdered and used Erythromycin Eye Ointment Prescription in the Central African Republic for ulcers (Abbe Walker, 1953). The leaf is a woman's medicine in Sierra Leone. A leaf decoction is Erythromycin No Prescription Needed taken with lemon for abdominal pains of uterine origin (Dalziel, 1936). For birth control of family Erythromycin Ethylsuccinate 400 Mg planning, the bark of Anthocleista nobilis together with those of Bosqueia angolensis and Spathodea campanulata are boiled and a dose taken internally once a week. Part of the liquid is also applied as enema (Ghana Traditional medicine). 6. MAJOR CHEMICAL CONSTITUTENTS AND MEDICINAL PRODUCTS The bark contains two alkaloids "Brucine" and "Loganine" (Kerharo and Bouquet, 1960), Though it is not considered poisonous by Africans, Ivanoff states that it has caused accidental poisonings resulting in bad colic, obstinate constipation, weakening of the stomach (or spasm of pylorus), fibrillary trembings, pronounced pallor and Where To Buy Erythromycin Ophthalmic Ointment heart weakness (Kerharo and Bouquet, 1960). 1. HARVESTING, CONSERVING AND PREPARATION Erythromycin Gel No Prescription The leaves are collected from young trees or where necessary by climbing. The