
Very appraised by their estates afrodisíacas, in Africa it is used as the local viagra. People have used it in excess and now risk runs of disappearing.
"The citropsis disappears, people have used it in excess: it is the local viagra!", Robert looses Kungujje, a guide of the forest of Mabira, in Uganda, while it points out with the finger the call Tree of the sex, very appraised by his estates afrodisíacas.
The roots of the citropsis articulata, used in decoction, are effective "in three hours", Kasozi assures Bruham, a 49 year-old peasant and habitual consumer of this beverage. This compatriot lives near the Reservation of Mabira, to 50 km to the east of Kampala, one of the last tropical wet forests of that African country.
"We are concerned because the citropsis becomes scarce, here there is a great problem of impotence and people will have to be deprived to buy an equivalent" medicine, she complains.
"In Uganda we believe to have freedom to use the forest like a personal" petition, Robert explains to Kungujje, it guides of the center of ecoturismo of Mabira, while one of the few ones teaches
citropsis specimens that are in the reservation.
The users of the citropsis have trend to start it of root and they don't remember plantar other to guarantee their survival. "With the unemployment, the alimentary bad habits, the diabetes and the hypertension, linked to the stress, the dysfunctions of the
erection goes for that reason in increase in Uganda people it uses this plant", Maud affirms Kamatenesi-Mugisha, botanist and expert in fertility.
Around the population's ugandesa 80% it depends on the medicinal plants to cure their quotidian ailments because the up-to-date medicines are prohibitive and the clinicians are far from the villages.