Region: tropical and subtropical America, naturalized in Africa.
Content: hallucinogenic indole alkaloids in the seeds
Use: leaves cooked, as a vegetable or mashed and added to soups; leaves are withered in the sun, cooked alone or mixed with vegetables such as peas, amaranth, coconut milk, pounded groundnuts, rice
BodyGeneral: leprosy.
Action: insecticidal.
Nervous: neuralgia.
Head: headache.
Eyes: conjunctivitis.
Skin: wounds; green mamba bite.