In my Village we call it it IHLALA, very delicious, sweet, with a bit of after taste sometimes. To answer your question on how healers know, we dream about what plants to use for certain illnesses and ill-alignments . Believe it or not, if this was not happening to me, I wouldn't believe it. But thank you for the great content
@@AfricanPlantHunter it’s amazing and rather meta-physical but it’s interesting that healers in South America also report the same intelligence “the plants told me”. I’ve experienced something similar myself and it messes with my logical scientific side of my brain hahaha the world is full of magic and reason if one listens carefully enough
From Mozambique 🇲🇿 I have these kinds of trees 🌳 Thanks 🙏🏿 for sharing your knowledge with us. I really appreciate your kindness. Please let me know how exactly we can use this fruit when having cobra 🐍 or mamba bites???
Good question! My suggestion would actually be to seek proper medical attention if bitten by a cobra or a mamba. But the traditional remedy involves eating a few seeds from this fruit.
@@AfricanPlantHunter thanks. I came across your article doing the research of how people long ago survived snake bites especially black mamba ( I was looking for a miracle tree)
Got to remember that. But, likely how they figured it out, someone was eating a fruit and got stung by a mamba or cobra. I wonder it it would work on an American coral or rattler? Corals are rare in this part of Arizona, but rattlers so common we have 3 varieties of king snakes, which live on them. Plus plenty of road runners, of course. They find rattlers very taste. No bird seed please :-)
Matamba is the shona word for the monkey orange fruit. Shona is a Zimbabwean language. How our ancestors knew which herbs/plants/roots/fruits to use for certain ailments was not from trial and error, it was through revelation. They would be told by a spirit in their dreams on what to use
Love your comment bro but trial and error played a large part..shout out to all the early humans who died eating dangerous fruits so the rest of us could learn.
@@AfricanPlantHunter when the fruit has ripen, you can swallow the the seed. I'm not sure sure about it being poisonous though, unless maybe maybe when not rippen. Going up, we use to swallow the seeds of this fruit, by mistake ofcourse. The only problem in swallowing it is going to the toilet becomes a mission. You will push that poo💩 for your dear life🙈
On the farm I was always told by the workers that there’s 2 types of matamba trees. I was told that there’s a toxic/poisonous one and an edible one. Is this true?
Yes, to an extent. There are in fact several species of Strychnos in southern Africa. All have seeds that are mildly toxic - some more so than others. But if you don't swallow the seeds, they're all basically fine to eat!
In Zimbabwe, we have a variety of types of this fruit. There is Matamba (the thick juice inside and around the seeds remains brown whitish when rippen), Mbumi (the thick juice inside and around the seeds is rich blackish-brown when rippen) and Nhakwa (yellow out and inside when rippen and is not as jucy as Matamba or Mbumi, but has a thick porridge like juice that one can suck from around the seeds and spit out the seeds). Seeds of Matamba can be eaten and chewed but have a some bitterness whereas seeds from Mbumi can be eaten and chewed and swallowed without feeling any bitterness. I grew up eating Matambas and Mbumi and used to chew the hard seeds too. So I know. The Nhakwa kind is one whose seeds are bitter to chew and swallow and we never chewed them.
Hi, yes you can, although you need to be careful not to breach any biopiracy laws. The supplying country needs to give you a permit, and the receiving country has to accept the permit. As long as that's all in order, it's all good. Which country are you in?
Popping a beer right now and keepiung an eye open for any stray black mamabas here in Scotland
Let me know if you spot one!!
Thank You for your effort and Time for sharing this valuable information !
My pleasure!
You're a gold mine of very useful information.. 1 more homie subscriber 👋
Yay, thank you!
Great to see you again with wonderful pictures and a beautiful fruit.we do have this in India and we call it bela fruit in south India . thank you
It's Zimbabwe’s indigenous fruit
In my Village we call it it IHLALA, very delicious, sweet, with a bit of after taste sometimes.
To answer your question on how healers know, we dream about what plants to use for certain illnesses and ill-alignments .
Believe it or not, if this was not happening to me, I wouldn't believe it.
But thank you for the great content
Thank you for sharing that. I hear the same from healers all the time and it continuously amazes me!
@@AfricanPlantHunter Thank you for the amazing work that you do.
Sometimes trees themselves communicate with u when in bush to me that's how I know most of medical plants
@@AfricanPlantHunter it’s amazing and rather meta-physical but it’s interesting that healers in South America also report the same intelligence “the plants told me”.
I’ve experienced something similar myself and it messes with my logical scientific side of my brain hahaha the world is full of magic and reason if one listens carefully enough
That is amazing. Where do you stay? And did you have to initiate with an elder before gaining this ability?
How do you use it , which part , the fruit or the buck???
Hi Gus, do you have made a book about the medicinal plants? if so am i able to purchase a copy?
I haven't, but it's in the works. I'll be sure to advertise widely when it's available!
I would love to purchase a copy too
Are the fruits of strychnos spinosa always green or yellow in Zimbabwe because they can be orange when ripe north of the equator?
At theend there I thought you were going to add it to your cold beer - that would have been sooo exciting 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My favorite fruit 🤤🙌🏽
I like your channel, great content👌
Thanks so much!
From Mozambique 🇲🇿
I have these kinds of trees 🌳
Thanks 🙏🏿 for sharing your knowledge with us. I really appreciate your kindness.
Please let me know how exactly we can use this fruit when having cobra 🐍 or mamba bites???
Good question! My suggestion would actually be to seek proper medical attention if bitten by a cobra or a mamba. But the traditional remedy involves eating a few seeds from this fruit.
@@AfricanPlantHunter thanks 🙏🏿’
+ You look at the fruit
+ You throw it into the nearest garbage bin
+ You get the victim of the snakebite to the hospital ASAP!!!
How do you treat a mamba bite please elaborate more
In theory you would eat some of the seeds. I would recommend more conventional medical treatment if bitten by a mamba though!
@@AfricanPlantHunter thanks. I came across your article doing the research of how people long ago survived snake bites especially black mamba ( I was looking for a miracle tree)
Nice fruit.. keep up the good work
Thank you, I will!
Well you won’t have to worry about a neurotoxic venomous snakebite if you are dead from strychnine poisoning. That’s how this works against snakebite.
Haha, that's definitely true!
Gordon Ramsay swallowed the seeds I don't know what happened after but I read that it makes you vomit so maybe he dispersed it that way.
Vomiting is the usual response!
How do you use it when a snake bite you
Zambia we call it mhololo. Is the brown fleshy fruit. We have another called mawi. It's flesh is hard yellow. Almost furry. Both tasty.
I'm surprised Lihlala can do sooo much! We call the fruit lihlala and emahlala in plural. Thank you soo much!
Quite astonishing.
Got to remember that. But, likely how they figured it out, someone was eating a fruit and got stung by a mamba or cobra. I wonder it it would work on an American coral or rattler? Corals are rare in this part of Arizona, but rattlers so common we have 3 varieties of king snakes, which live on them. Plus plenty of road runners, of course. They find rattlers very taste. No bird seed please :-)
In india this tree name Bel patra
and fruit name Wheel
wheel mix with sugar is very tasty drink 👌👌 🍷🇮🇳🇮🇳
Thanks for sharing that!
Matamba is the shona word for the monkey orange fruit. Shona is a Zimbabwean language. How our ancestors knew which herbs/plants/roots/fruits to use for certain ailments was not from trial and error, it was through revelation. They would be told by a spirit in their dreams on what to use
Love your comment bro but trial and error played a large part..shout out to all the early humans who died eating dangerous fruits so the rest of us could learn.
@@s.wvazim6517 NO IT DID NOT! It was all by revelation through dreams. Fortunately our Ancestors did not just eat anything without spiritual guidance.
@@twahtwah2479 what els could these dreams tell out of interest?
@@s.wvazim6517
Don't waste your time arguing with the wilfully ignorant 😂.
….Lerutla ka Setswana
Umkhemeswane
I would like to taste one
We call it massala
Very good fruit
Thank you!
We call it a klapper
Could you sell them or send to Asia?
Which country are you in? Unfortunately I don't think they would be allowed into most Asian countries, but you never know!
@@AfricanPlantHunter many seller can send them to Asia
Yes
Nsala
But still medical first aid and antivenom? Agaisnst Bloomberg it probably wouldn t help
Yes, definitely!
@@AfricanPlantHunter so and for Russels viper it would work this pland/fruits Si or Dr ?
i grew up with eating it
Can you mail me seed ?
Hey Johng, sorry, I missed this comment. I can't mail your seed, but I can definitely put you in touch with people who can. Which country are you in?
USA
Cool, ok, please email me on gus@africanplanthunter.com and I'll see if I can assist.
Yes bro
How exactly do you treat Black Mamba bites using the seed?
It's the strychnine in the seeds that is the healing agent. But I wouldn't advise eating the seeds, as strychnine is also a deadly poison!
African Plant Hunter Thank You so much for the information.
There is probably a way to extract it. Now I want to know
@@AfricanPlantHunter when the fruit has ripen, you can swallow the the seed. I'm not sure sure about it being poisonous though, unless maybe maybe when not rippen.
Going up, we use to swallow the seeds of this fruit, by mistake ofcourse.
The only problem in swallowing it is going to the toilet becomes a mission.
You will push that poo💩 for your dear life🙈
@@pearln2308 interesting maybe you got away with it because the actual poison would still be intact in within the seed...
On the farm I was always told by the workers that there’s 2 types of matamba trees. I was told that there’s a toxic/poisonous one and an edible one. Is this true?
Yes, to an extent. There are in fact several species of Strychnos in southern Africa. All have seeds that are mildly toxic - some more so than others. But if you don't swallow the seeds, they're all basically fine to eat!
True there are two types the one is toxic you get sick or die depending on you immune system
In Zimbabwe, we have a variety of types of this fruit. There is Matamba (the thick juice inside and around the seeds remains brown whitish when rippen), Mbumi (the thick juice inside and around the seeds is rich blackish-brown when rippen) and Nhakwa (yellow out and inside when rippen and is not as jucy as Matamba or Mbumi, but has a thick porridge like juice that one can suck from around the seeds and spit out the seeds). Seeds of Matamba can be eaten and chewed but have a some bitterness whereas seeds from Mbumi can be eaten and chewed and swallowed without feeling any bitterness. I grew up eating Matambas and Mbumi and used to chew the hard seeds too. So I know. The Nhakwa kind is one whose seeds are bitter to chew and swallow and we never chewed them.
Does any one cultivate strychnos spinosa or strychnos cocculoides or have you seen any cultivars
They are wild fruits in Zimbabwe.
I can vo firm that that fruit does help with snakes bites. I always use to belive its a meth, seeing this video makes me a girl believer.
Is it legal to post seeds across African African borders because I'm trying to find good indigenous fruit cultivars
Hi, yes you can, although you need to be careful not to breach any biopiracy laws. The supplying country needs to give you a permit, and the receiving country has to accept the permit. As long as that's all in order, it's all good. Which country are you in?
Please show us the science for your claims. This is a very big claim and could cost lives. Being bitten by a mamba is no small thing.
You think everything is about machine testing 😂 Africa remains a mystery ... U dnt know anything