Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Commiphora africana?

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Here is some basic information about Commiphora africana and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Commiphora africana.

Scientific Name: Commiphora africana (A. Rich.) Engl..

Family: Burseraceae.

Genus: Commiphora.

For common names of Commiphora africana in different languages – See link

Description: Commiphora africana (A.Rich.) Endl., commonly called African myrrh, is a small deciduous tree occurring widely over sub-Saharan Africa in Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Tree parts are used to treat a wide range of ailments. fruits for typhoid fever and stomach problems, bark for malaria, resin for convulsions and for covering and disinfecting wounds, and burnt resin as an insecticide and aphrodisiac. The soft, termite-resistant wood is used for carving domestic utensils, music instruments and general purpose items. An edible oil is also extracted and parts of the tree exhibit strong fungicidal properties. – for more info about Commiphora africana See link

*The information in this list is based on the ethnobotanical data in Dr. Duke’s Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases.

Dr. Duke does not recommend using this information for self diagnosis or self medication. – See link

Commiphora africana common names, economics importance, distributional range and more in the USDA GRIN website – See link.

Search PubMed (US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health) for academic researches with the search term Commiphora africana – See link.

See if there is something in Youtube on the term Commiphora africana – See link.