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"Just a short note to thank you for your Sausage Tree Skin Cream. I've suffered from a skin condition for many years and had just about given up hope of finding a cream that would help control this heartbreaking disease. In the past I have had varying degrees of success with expensive cortisone based creams, but felt that prolonged exposure to these synthetics could in the long run do more harm than good."

"I was a little sceptical at first that a naturally occurring substance could have any real effect on such a virulent, long existing condition as my psoriasis. Much to my amazement after a week of regular application, the unsightly, scaly lesions began disappearing leaving a small patch of pink skin. BRILLIANT!..."

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Resources, Press and Research

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HERALD SUN Melbourne

 

Sausage Tree Heals Skin Conditions

PROTA DATABASE - Kigelia desription

Kings College Research Paper

 


national geographic-National Geographic, 1995

Research and trials undertaken at the Zimbabwean University and tests at the Frieburg Institute of Cancer Research and Kings College, London, have indicated positive results with cancerous sun spots.

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national geographic-National Geographic, 1995

Research and trials undertaken at the Zimbabwean University and tests at the Frieburg Institute of Cancer Research and Kings College, London, have indicated positive results with cancerous sun spots.

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phyto trade africa

-Phytotrade Africa

The Sausage Tree has strong potential, especially given its long history of use in treating skin ailments, its increasing reputation for effectiveness, and its abundance in Southern Africa.



SEPESAL

-SEPESAL Web Site 2002

The sausage tree, Kigelia africana, has one of the largest entries in the SEPASAL database. It is used all over Africa for a wide range of medical conditions.

Researchers from King's College London, working with staff from RBG (Royal Botanic Gardens), Kew and the University of Natal in South Africa have managed to confirm some of these claims for medicinal potency. They found that extracts of the plant were antibacterial and antifungal, and also had strong anti-cancer properties. There are now Kigelia-based commercial treatments available for various skin conditions, and researchers are studying its potential as a skin cancer cure.

readers digest

-Readers' Digest, December 1994

The fruit (kigelia africana) is dried and turned into a paste for the treatment of human skin cancer. This appears to be more than just wishful thinking as the sausage-tree cream is gaining international medical recognition as a potential cure for basal-cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer associated with aging and the prolonged exposure to the sun.

the sunday magazine

-Sunday Mail Magazine, 1995

Extracts from the pod of this tree (kigelia africana) have proven effective in treating sun induced skin 'sores'. Research is currently taking place in Germany (Freiburg University) on this plant.