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Traditionnal Use - centuries of experience !
Medicinal preparations made from the secondary storage tubers of the tree have been used in the folk medicine traditions of indigenes tribal Africa (Bushmen, Hottentots, Bantus) which recognize to Devil’s claw properties for treatment of relieve of parturition pain (The dry root was administered to pregnant women during the parturition to relief the post partum pain – this medical use is prolonged after parturi-tion but with lower doses) and the relief of rheumatic pain 1,3,6
The traditional use of Devil’s claw in African tribes is an herbal tea of the powder form of the dry root.European colonists (especially a German soldier called Mehnert) introduced Devil’s claw as an herbal tea in the beginning of the 20th century. These medicinal uses of the plant, which became quickly popular, have been mostly used in human for the last 20 years in the supportive treatment of inflammatory and degenerative diseases of the skeletal apparatus especially for relief of arthritic symptoms : rheumatism, arthrisis, lumbago).7