KOLA (cola sp.)

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	KOLA
	*cola sp.*

Name
KOLA

Scientific Name
cola sp.

KOLA

Description: It grows about 40 feet of stops, has yellow flowers, noticeable with purple; with 6 to 8 inches in length, indicated in both it finishes. The seeds are used extensively like a condimento by the native ones of tropical Western and Central Africa, also by the black of the Antilles and Brazil, that introduced the trees to these countries.

In Western Africa these trees to grow and are generally near the coast, and is great and continuous commerce with the nuts by the native ones of the interior of the continent, the Tail consumed by them. what one says that a small piece chews each food before to promote the digestion; one also thinks that it improved the flavor of foods when one says tamben that it improves the flavor of the water inclusively if this one this rotten one

There are several classes of seeds of Tail derived from the different species, but the Tail side is the one that mainly generally is used and preferred for medicinal intentions. Paises of Africa and the Western Antilles provides the drug commercially. Acuminata C., or Nuts of Gurru, are used in the same way that C. side; they are of a tree that grows in Cameron and the Congo, is not so well-known, but, she is used like a stimulant of caffein; Brazil produces approximately 600 tons, also it is used the seeds of S. Chica and S. Striata. The Kola of the commerce consists of cotiledones separated of the marrow of the seed; when without maturing he is almost white, when the curing it experiences a change of color reddish coffee and losing much of his astringency. Cotiledones dried varies in the size of 1 to 2 inches, are irregular in the form. The great amounts of the fresh seeds are used against the account in Africa of their properties that maintain, where they form an important article of the domestic trade.

Components: The varieties different from nuts give a greater percentage or smaller of caffein, than it is only found in the fresh state. The seeds are said to contain glucoside, Kolanin, but this substance appears to be a mixture of red Kola and caffein. The seeds also contain the starch, the fatty subject, the sugar, a fat that disturbs acting on of the enzyme several petroleums.

Medicinal properties the Action and Uses of Kola are just as caffein, modified only by the astringents it presents/displays. The fresh Nuts of the Kola have the action of stimulating aside from the caffein content, but when they appear in the European commerce, its action is indistinguishable of which of other drugs of caffein and red Kola he is inert. The kola is also stimulating nervous and valuable, a tonic one of heart, and a good general tonic.

C. The seeds of Ballayi (cornu) are also used, but these are distinguished easily as the six seeds have cotiledones and contain small caffein.

The extract ---Preparations---Fluid de Kola, 10 to 40 drops. Solid Alc of extract, 2 to 8 grains.

KOLA

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	GOTU KOLA - CENTELLA ASIATICA Package of 100 Capsules NOW Nutrition Nutricionales Complements	Shopping Cart	12,07 €
	GOTU KOLA 100 Capsules of 435 mg Nature's Way Nutrition Nutricionales Complements	Shopping Cart	19,95 €
	EXTRACTO KOLA ACUMINATA Package of 50 ml ROBIS Circulatory Circulation	Shopping Cart	5,41 €
	GOTU KOLA (60 Cap) Bottle of 60 Vegicaps Solgar Nutrition Nutricionales Complements	Shopping Cart	15,60 €