Traditional pharmacology and medicine inAfrica
The bark, leaves and roots of this latter plant have various medicinal uses (Burkill, 1985, pp. 260–262), and the plant was held inhighesteem inNigeriaas well as in other West African countries (Burkill, 1985, p. 260): ".To the Igbo, it is more or less a sacred or symbolic tree, often planted insmall.