🌍African Traditional Medicine
Marula
Sclerocarya birrea
About Marula
Marula (Sclerocarya birrea) is a herb used in the African Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Skin Health, Wound Healing, Liver Support, and Malaria. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Sclerocarya birrea, commonly known as the marula, (Ancient Greek σκληρός, sklērós, "hard", and κάρυον, káryon, "nut", in reference to the stone inside the fleshy fruit) is a medium-sized dioecious tree, indigenous to the miombo woodlands of Southern Africa, the Sudano-Sahelian range of West Africa, and Madagascar.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · bothLeaves · both