What is Citropsis?
Citropsis is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae. They are known generally as African cherry oranges. They are native to Africa. This genus is in the subfamily Aurantioideae, which also includes genus Citrus.
What is omuboro?
Citropsis articulata, known commonly as the African cherry orange, West African cherry orange, Uganda cherry orange, and locally as omuboro, is a species of flowering plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae. It is native to tropical West Africa. The species is usually a shrub, sometimes a tree.
What is Omulondo in English?
M. whitei (Hook. F) Skeels popularly known in central Uganda as Mulondo is a medicinal plant found in the tropics from West Africa to eastern and southern Africa. It is an herbal climbing plant popularly linked to the management of impotence problems.
How is Mukombero eaten?
Dried and powdered, the leaves are used as condiment. The roots, which have a pasty consistency, are used either dried or fresh to flavor food (such as meat stews) and tea. The root bark is eaten raw as a snack or to freshen the mouth. The flavor is initially bitter and spicy but becomes sweet after chewing.
What are the benefits of eating mulondo?
The roots of M. whytei plant is widely chewed by many people in Kampala, Uganda. The roots are largely valued as sexual stimulant, appetiser, flavours, and a stimulant for milk production in lactating mothers. Chewing the roots is also believed to help clear hangovers from beers as well as controlling stomachache.
Does Mukombero increase testosterone?
The serum testosterone, FSH and LH concentration levels progressively decreased with time in all the three groups of rats treated with the extract (exposed) as compared with the controls which remained constant. However there was a rise in testosterone on first 10 days with low dose of 100mg/kg.
How does Mukombero look like?
The leaves are 10-30 centimeters wide and ovate with a cordate base. The petioles and veins are often reddish. The roots are pale yellow or brown on the outside and white or pale yellow inside. They have a bitter flavor that recalls ginger and licorice, and a vanilla-like aroma.
What is Stoneroot used for?
Stone root is used to treat urinary tract problems including bladder pain and swelling (inflammation), stones in the kidney and elsewhere in the urinary tract, and excess uric acid in the urine. It is also used to increase urine flow to relieve water retention (edema).
Does ginseng grow in Uganda?
Typically, ginseng thrives in cooler climates. However because of its highly potent curative qualities, the ginseng plant has been cultivated in America, parts of Europe and Africa including Uganda.
What are the benefits of Mukombero?
It is also appreciated for its healing properties: The leaves are used to treat hypertension, stroke, anemia, asth- ma, hangover, mastitis, and allergies, and are also taken to improve sleep, enhance urination, and ease birth pains. Men who are impotent or infertile are given mukombero as a remedy.
What are the effects of Mukombero?
This study concludes that Mondia whitei may alter male fertility by affecting sperm quality; it causes a decline in sperm count, morphology, motility and vitality. This shows that M. whitei might be cytotoxic and can result in hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism and oligoasthenoteratozoospermia.
How do you eat Mukombero?