HEALTH BENEFITS OF FERTILITY PLANT (OGIRISI )

The plant has shiny dark green leaves and bears large showy terminal purple flowers. It is a familiar live-fence and boundary tree throughout its distribution. It is often grown as an ornamental and is easily cultivated.

HEALTH BENEFITS OF FERTILITY PLANT

✅Fertility plant also called ‘tree of life’.

✅A decoction of the leaf is taken by women to treat fertility problems.

✅However, a higher dosage of the leaf decoction has a uterine contraction effect and traditional healers in Nigeria use it to facilitate labour.

✅The young leaf can also be cooked with red oil drink during labour to facilitate easy delivery.

✅A decoction of the leaf use as gargle in the mouth for 4-5 minutes continuously is use to treat dental caries.

✅The bark is stomachic and analgesic.

✅A decoction is used in the treatment of dysentery, diarrhoea, epilepsy, cough and convulsion.

✅A decoction of the bark, sieve is taken inform of an enema as a treatment for piles and constipation.

✅Dried powdered of the bark combined with alligator pepper (Aframomum melegueta) is sniffed inform of snuff to treat migraine and sinusitis.it cures headache like there is no tomorrow.

✅The bark applied externally is use to cure wounds, ulcers and abscesses.

✅A decoction or ethanol extract of the root is used for the treatment of syphilis and intestinal problems such as worms.

✅The decoction of the root is laxative and is use to treat constipation.

✅The maceration of the root is effective for the treatment of arthritis and rheumatic pains.

✅The powdered root combine with chili pepper (Capsicum frutescens) are put into a carious tooth to treat toothache.

✅The powdered dry root combine with root of Lopharia sp are infused inform of ointment and use to massage oedema arriving through dietary deficiency.

✅Decoction of the root and leaves are remedy for scrotal elephantiasis, fever and as an aphrodisiac.