Figure 3.

Medical impact of extracts from J. curcas, as learned from interviews with (a) the traditional healer, Alhaji Oloogun, Ilorin (Kwara state, Nigeria), (b) Baba Reke (Ilorin), and (c) Iya Igbeti, a female Yoruba traditional pediatric pharmacist at the New Market at Ilorin. They described how extracts of this plant, supplemented with black pepper or local black soap (as prepared by the Yoruba tribes of Nigeria), are used as traditional medicine which may also increase appetite and promote secretion, properties which have also been documented in modern medicinal textbooks [50].