Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In tropical African folk medicine, the bark of Cremaspora triflora is used to relieve toothache, a fragment being placed in the affected tooth or the mouth washed with a bark decoction, and it serves more generally as a pain-killer; the root is used to treat arthritis and rheumatism, and leaf and bark preparations are taken orally for various complaints (Useful Tropical Plants; JSTOR Global Plants).
Botanical Description
Cremaspora triflora is a shrub or small tree of the coffee family (Rubiaceae), reaching roughly 1.8 to 9 metres tall, usually much-branched with elongate, arching branches. The stems range from nearly hairless to densely clothed in grey to rusty hairs. The leaves are opposite and the plant bears clusters of white to yellowish, sweet-scented tubular flowers, the corolla tube about 3 to 5.5 mm long with spreading lobes; these are followed by scarlet, fleshy berries. Its native range spans tropical Africa from Senegal to Angola and eastward to Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, as well as Cape Verde, the Comoros and Madagascar. It occurs in evergreen and fringing forest, bushland and thicket from sea level up to about 2,000 metres elevation. The fragrant white flowers have led to occasional cultivation as an ornamental.
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