A sausage tree in Aburi Botanical Garden, north of Accra, Ghana. From the information board:<br><i>Kigelia africana</i> (Sausage tree)<br>The tree is used medicinally in Ghana for piles. The root decoction is drunk for constipation and for tapeworm. The roots and fruit are boiled with a knob of plantain flowers as a woman's remedy in Ghana. The bark and leaves alone or with other tree barks and seed of <i>Xylopia aethiopica</i> seed are used for dysentery, stomach and kidney trouble. The fruits cut into pieces and boiled with root of <i>Anthocleista</i> sp. strained and drunk are used for piles and lumbago. The sensufa[?] people of West Africa, though having no therapeutic use for the fruit, sometimes hang it on their huts as a superstitious use for fertility. The fruit are sold in local medicine market in West Africa as a purgative and for dysentery.
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