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Balanites aegyptiaca

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644.56.13 Balanites aegyptiacaNames: Ximenia aegyptiaca.
English: Desert date; Soapberry tree; Egyptian balsam.
Name: Arabic: Lalob Hidjihi, Heglig; Hausa: Aduwa; Swahili: Mduguyu; Amhari: Bedena.
Botany: Africa; arid; tree 10 m, narrow; branches are thorny; yellow-green bisexual flowers; yellow, single-seeded fruit is edible but bitter.
Use: famine food; cooking oil; alcoholic beverages; seed cake after oil extraction as animal fodder.
Content: seed oil; sapogenins, diosgenin and yamogenin.
BodyInfection: schistosome; blood-flukes; bilharzia.
Head: headache.
Abdomen: worms.
Female: contraceptive pills and corticoids; lactation.
Skin: dracunculiasis, guinea worm.

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