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Figure 12 – Pulp from P. <strong>biglobosa</strong> known locally as dobulong<br />
Medicines derived from P. <strong>biglobosa</strong> are <strong>of</strong> value to a rural community that<br />
cannot afford or have access to “modern medicine”. The importance <strong>of</strong> the tree and its<br />
products as medicine perhaps is the origin for its name. The name <strong>of</strong> the tree and food<br />
product, dawadawa is from Hausa, the lingua franca <strong>of</strong> West Africa, spoken by over fifty<br />
million in this part <strong>of</strong> the continent. Hausa borrowed a great number <strong>of</strong> words from<br />
Arabic, and greatly influenced its vocabulary (Salloum 2001). In Swahili, a language<br />
also Arabic in origin, dawa is defined as medicament, anything supplied by a doctor,<br />
including charms and talisman used by native medicine men and Dawa ya miti-shamba is<br />
herbal medicine, made from leaves, bark, roots or trees (Swahili-English Dictionary<br />
1939). In my interviews, I asked for uses for P. <strong>biglobosa</strong> other than food and the<br />
foremost use is for medicine. To relieve diarrhea, the bark is boiled to make a tea. For<br />
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