Posted by Jinna on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Could-food-sensitivities-disappear-with-Okoubaka-3X-alone-tp4032268p4032270.html

          https://www.avogel.ca/en/plant-encyclopedia/okoubaka-aubrevillei.php

History of Okoubaka


Okoubaka is a mysterious medicinal plant, used as a fetish by medicine men in West Africa.

These healers prepare a powder from the tree’s bark which is used against all kinds of poisoning.

Many a tribal chief’s taster probably owes his life to this bark.

Parts of the plant are also used symbolically to ward off evil spirits.

For this reason the tree is considered invaluable and is associated with the most stringent of taboos; its use is strictly reserved for local magicians and medicine men.


There is an interesting story behind how this medicinal plant came to be used in European medicine.

Several years ago, a native of West Africa made his doctor, a certain Magdalena Kunst of Frankfurt, a present of a small amount of crushed bark, noting that, in his own country it is customary to take some of this powder following a meal –

particularly if one not is entirely certain of the host’s friendship - for this powder would immediately make any poison ineffective.


Dr. Kunst, a homeopath, immediately set to work to create a homeopathic dilution of the precious powder which she used effectively on various types of food poisoning.


Following her experiment, Dr. Kunst asked Dr. Willmar Schwabe to look out for this extraordinary plant during his next expedition to Africa.

At first it proved exceptionally difficult to track down this bark, but nowadays it is much easier to come by, in fact, the fear is that this rare tree could well become an endangered species as a result of uncontrolled bark extraction.