🦒East African Traditional Medicine
Mkuyu (Wild Fig)
Ficus sycomorus
About Mkuyu (Wild Fig)
Mkuyu (Wild Fig) (Ficus sycomorus) is a herb used in the East African Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Digestive Issues, Wound Healing, Fever, and Liver Support, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Ficus sycomorus, called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry (because the leaves resemble those of the mulberry), sycamore, or sycomore, is a fig species that has been cultivated since ancient times.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · bothLeaves · both