{"id":6512,"date":"2025-04-24T08:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T08:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=6512"},"modified":"2025-04-24T08:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T08:22:46","slug":"voacanga-africana-seed","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/product\/voacanga-africana-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Voacanga Africana Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scientific name: <\/strong>Voacanga Africana<br \/>\n<strong>Common name:<\/strong> Voacanga<br \/>\n<strong>Local names:<\/strong> Bedaa (Asante), Bonawa (Akyem), Fruma\u00a0(Kwahu). Obranfoa, mpentemaba (Fanti) Atweadae\u00a0(Dormaa), fakapenpen (Sefwi) bakye-bakye (Enchi),\u00a0freketema (Ahanta) Kreketema (Wassa), tsikogoe (Hohoe)\u00a0etc. foba (Nzema)<br \/>\n<strong>Family:<\/strong> Apocynaceae<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> It is a small tropical tree that grows to 6m in\u00a0height with wild glossy flowers, with scent of mushroom\u00a0during flowering.<br \/>\n<strong>Habitat<\/strong>: It is a deciduous tree found in forest and high\u00a0savannah areas.<br \/>\n<strong>Parts used: <\/strong>seed, root bark (radix) and bark<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses:<\/strong> (folklore): Stem bark and seeds of the tree are used\u00a0as a poison, stimulant, aphrodisiac and ceremonial\u00a0psychedelic. Leaves used in treating burns.<br \/>\nActive ingredients: Iboga alkaloids such as voacangine,\u00a0voacamine, vobtussne, amataine, akuammidine,\u00a0tabersonine, coronaridine, others are ibogaine,<br \/>\noboxygaine and iboluteine.\u00a0Orthodox uses: Manages Alzheimer&#8217;s disease (enhance<br \/>\nmemory), suppresses drug addition; used as\u00a0hypotensives. (The presence of vobtussive is active in the\u00a0treatment of Cardiac problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[60],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6512","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-medicinal-seeds-plants","first","instock","featured","shipping-taxable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}