Culinary Uses
The ripe fruit contains an edible slimy pulp with shiny brown seeds.
The base of the fruit is bitten off and the sweet-sour pulp is sucked out.
The ripe fruit is cooked in syrup and called sour fig jam – a delicacy in the Cape
Add the fruit to curry dishes.
Is also used in oriental cooking.
Medicinal Uses.
It is said that Leaf pulp and -juice contains tannins
Antiseptic, Antibacterial, Anti-fungal
Vasoconstricter effect -reduce fluid loss from wounds and burns
Enhance tissue regeneration
Apply pulp/juice: eczema, wounds, burns and to stop bleeding
Gargle – infections mouth/ throat
Treat ear/tooth ache and oral and vaginal thrush
Chew and swallow juice to treat mouth/stomach ulcers, dysentery, digestive troubles, diarrhea, tuberculosis, diuretic and styptic
Rub juice against a babies gums when teething.
This is not an extensive medical list for you to try and some of this is from old wives’ tales.
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