The Fever Tree (Acacia xanthophloea) Part 2: Medicinal Uses for Gut and Brain Health

In this, the second of his two part series on Acacia (Vachellia) xanthophloea, the Fever Tree, Gus (the African Plant Hunter) looks at the pharmaceutical uses of three compounds found in the bark extracts of this well-known African tree: catechins, catechols and catecholamines.
The Fever Tree (Acacia xanthophloea) Part 1: Myths and Legends

When the elephant’s child asked what crocodiles eat for dinner, he was told to find the answer on the banks of the “great, grey-green greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees”. In this episode of the African Plant Hunter, Gus goes to the banks of the Runde river, in Gonarezhou National Park, slightly […]