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Researchers have identified and validated pepper fruit, pawpaw, West African Black pepper and cowhage (velvet bean) for the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer.
Botanically called Dennettia tripetala, pepper fruit belongs to the plant family Annonaceae. It is called Ako in Edo, Nkarika in Ibibio, Mmimi in Igbo, and Ata igbere in Yoruba.
Piper guineense is commonly called West African Black Pepper or Ashanti pepper (Uziza in Igbo and Ata iyere in Yoruba). Velvet bean or Cowhage is botanically called Mucuna pruriens, Werepe in Yoruba and Agbala in Ibo. Pawpaw is botanically called Carica papaya.
Besides its novel use in prevention and treatment of glaucoma, osteoarthritis, food poisoning, indigestion, and heartburn, among many other disease indications, a recent report from the University of Illinois at Chicago, United States (US), showed that pepper fruit extract inhibits the growth of prostate cancer cells.
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