Abstract:
In 1965, the professor in pharmacognosy at
Uppsala University, Finn Sandberg reported after an
expedition the traditional medicinal use of plants in the
Central African Republic. In his report he mentioned
the use of decoctions of the plant Oldenlandia affinis
by African natives to facilitate childbirth.1
A few years
later in the 1970s, a Red Cross doctor, Lorens Gran,
observed that tribes in Congo used the plant and he
brought samples home to Norway for identification
and investigation