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Botanical Name: Cola nitida
Source: Trade
The Kola Nut is native to tropical Africa and was introduced to Latin America and the West Indies to induce the slaves to work. In Jamaica, a tea of the grated nut is used as a coffee. The seeds are chewed as a stimulant because of their natural caffeine content. The seeds contain 46% starch, 2.36% caffeine, 3% fat and small amounts of glucose and sucrose. A tea of the kola nut regulates circulation and cardiac rhythms and acts diurectically on the heart. It relieves stomach aches and can stop diarrhea as well as purging the body of poisons. It can give one the strength to do hard work without getting tired and relieves fatigue (increases energy).
Historical uses of Kola Nut include increasing the capacity for physical exertion and for enduring fatigue without food; stimulating a weak heart; and treating nervous debility, weakness, lack of emotion, nervous diarrhea, depression, despondency, brooding, anxiety, and sea sickness.
Kola Nut was said to make ideas become clearer, thoughts flow more easily and clearly, and fatigue and drowsiness disappear.
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