| ≥1 piece |
Aidan Fruit ( Tetrapleura tetraptera )
They are native to Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo and Uganda. Use in traditional medicine is widespread (where the leaves , bark, roots and the kernels are used) and in Ghana, particularly the fruit and flowers are used as perfumes and in pomades prepared from palm oil. In Nigeria, particularly in Igbo culture, the fruit (broken into pieces) and the seeds (often fermented) are used as a spice to Flavour soups. In Nigeria, the ground fruit pod is being investigated as a meat preservative for Sausages (at a concentration of 10% per 100g meat, in conjunction with garlic and sodium nitrite). In Ghana, there is a move to increase the usage of the fruit, and it's being added to chocolate, made into jam and used as a flavouring for biscuits. Like many other beans in Nigeria, the dried beans of Tetrapleura tetraptera are fermented by certina Igbo groups and used as a condiment or flavouring.
The fruit of Tetrapleura tetraptera is widely used in African traditional medicine for the management and/or control of an array of human ailments, including schistosomiasis, asthma, ulcer, Staphylococcus aureus , epilepsy, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, convulsion, leprosy, inflammation and/ or rheumatoid pains. Some of the authenticated biological activities of this plant include as molluscicide (to control slugs and snails), in schistosomiasis, in gastro-intestinal ulcer, as antimicrobial (especially against S taphylococcus aureus ), anticonvulsant, in hypertension (to lower blood pressure), and as contraceptive. Recent in Nigeria have shown that the fruit extract of Tetrapleura tetraptera (in alcohol) possesses significant anti-malarial, analgesic and anticonvulsant activities.