Fruit - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 72999 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Tetrapleura tetraptera | Entry Book Number | 2.1994 | |
| Artefact Name | Fruit | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Fruit | Geography Description | West Tropical Africa, Africa | ||
| Uses | FruitUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Miller RD | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/04/1994 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Prekese - a West African fruit. (See ECOS enquiry 62.94) This is widely used as a herbal medicine in West Africa, as the enclosed extracts from Dalziel (1937) and Iwu(1993) indicate. Scientific studies have isolated biologically active ingredients, whic, h support its use in medicines. Glycoside - oleanolic acid - anticonvulsant (mice) Planta Medica 36, 1979. Sopoletin - hypotensive (rats), chronotropic, and inotropic actions (guinea pig isolated atria), neuromuscular blocking activity, possible non spec, ific spasmolytic agent (Planta Medica 49, 1983). There is always a danger that medicinally active ingredients could, in sufficiently high doses be toxic, but I could find little data regarding this. The only reference I found to toxicity data is for the, volatile oil of the fruit (Fitoterapia LXIV, No 1, 1993), which I have enclosed. I hope that this will help in your evaluation of this plant. (F Cook) Fruit is widely available in shops and stalls catering for the West African population in Hackney. (, Correspondence from RD Miller, Senior Environmental Health Officer, Hackney Environmental Services.(April 1994) | ||||