Greenheart Wood Materia Medica

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Warburgia ugandensis has long been used in traditional African herbal medicine for a wide variety of health condition and so it is much prized by traditional healers who consider it to be a miraculous plant. The wood has a high oil content and when burned well emits an incense-like scent. The yellow or greenish heartwood, becomes brown on exposure is highly fragrant when first cut, the scent is somewhat reminiscent of sandalwood.

Although the bark is the most often used part, the leaves and roots are also highly medicinal. Extracts of Warburgia ugandensis bark or leaf exhibit anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-mycobacterial, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory actions., antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-plasmodial (plasmodium is spread by the bite of certain types of sandflies a genus of parasitic alveolates, many of which cause malaria), ant leishmanial (leishmaniosis, is a disease spread by the bites of sandflies that result in infection with parasites of the Leishmanial type), anthelmintic, cytotoxic and molluscicidal (kills mollusks) activities.

Download this chapter to learn more about GREENHEART WOOD — Warburgia ugandensis.

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26 pages excerpted from Berkowsky’s Synthesis Materia Medica/Spiritualis of Essential Oils.

Topics:

GREENHEART: PLANT CHARACTERISTICS And HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

GREENHEART WOOD, HERBAL MEDICINE And AROMATHERAPY

GREENHEART WOOD And The GEMSTONE SERPENTINE

GREENHEART WOOD: WOOD And WARMTH (FIRE) ELEMENTS

GREENHEART WOOD And The COLOR GREEN

GREEN HEART WOOD And HYSTERIA

GREENHEART WOOD And The RINGWORM MIASM

GREENHEART WOOD And TIFERET

 

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