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Mumvee Tree Faces Extinction Due To Over-Exploitation

7 months agoFri, 30 Aug 2024 07:19:16 GMT
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Mumvee Tree Faces Extinction Due To Over-Exploitation

Local environmentalists have warned that the sausage tree, known locally as Mumvee, is at risk of extinction due to over-exploitation.

This tree is highly valued for its believed medicinal properties, including its use as a remedy for various illnesses and as a sex-enhancing medicine.

Along the Mhare River in rural Hwedza, Mashonaland East Province, the rampant cutting down of Mumvee (scientifically known as Kigelia Africana) is evident. Here, the trees are often debarked, and their fruit is harvested for processing.

In an interview with NewsDay, Romeo Chisunga, a 38-year-old resident of the Hwedza South constituency, remarked that Mumvee fruit sells rapidly in Harare.” He said:

I have a ready market in Harare. Some people come here to buy dried bark or its powder for resale as it has proved to be a medicine.

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We chop the sausages and dry them before processing them into powder

A sack of dried barks goes for US$20, while a bucket of powdered mumvee fruit goes for US$40.

Many people in Hwedza are actively harvesting Mumvee fruit, as evidenced by the piles of Mumvee bark and fruit left to dry on rooftops before processing.

Kurauone Shonhai, a 65-year-old herbalist based in Marondera, told NewsDay that Mumvee is believed to “cure everything from diabetes to cancer.” He added:

We grew up consuming mumvee concoctions treating different ailments, and it works.

At vegetable markets in Marondera and Harare, small bottles or sachets of powdered Mumvee tree products are sold for US$1.

Maria Nhiwatiwa, a herbal vendor at Marondera’s Dombotombo market, said the medicine sells quickly due to high demand.

A herbalist in Murewa, Thompson Mutasa, affectionately known as Sekuru Shumba, said:

It is not a secret that both men and women use the mumvee tree fruit for sex-enhancing purposes.

The tree is special in the history of medicine. Some perform rituals under it.

Itai Rusike, executive director of the Community Working Group on Health, said that a significant issue with herbal medicine is the lack of regulation. He said:

Most of our herbal medicines are locally sourced and readily available, 100% organic and non-toxic. The challenge is and has always been the gap in communicating the dosage schedule, and indication for treatment.

There is no accreditation or regulation of the practitioners, their practice or premises as is done for medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other therapists trained in conventional medicine.

We also additionally have a lack of clinical trials, scientific data and evidence to support the claims despite some convincing results from treated individuals.

Meanwhile, environmentalists have warned that the over-exploitation of mumvee may result in the extinction of the tree species. Harare-based environmentalist Pelagia Kanyandura said:

Relevant authorities should come up with strategies if there are no policies to stop the rampant cutting down of the tree. As it stands, the species is being destroyed willy-nilly and will soon face extinction.

Astas Mabwe, the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) Mashonaland East provincial information and publicity manager, said that locals should use best harvesting methods to save the species.

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21 Comments

Anonymous · 7 months ago
The silence of the forestry authority is deafening and as a Forester I'm alarmed
Muzunghula · 7 months ago
uzere kuHwange vanouda ndibatei totouti muzunghula
General Tongo · 7 months ago
vanemishini midiki unongokwira mumvee osarudza chimwana chawo chaunoona kuti bhoo ongoenzanisa nemshini wako the moment chichikura newe uneuchitova nechiheavy chimshini chihagamugaga size yaunoda ikakwana ongosviko dambura chimwana zvako zvaita heavy mushini
019 · 7 months ago
muti uyu ndinawo
🇺🇦 Volodymyr · 7 months ago
Kkkkkk yaa pakaipa,,, ndizvo zvakamboitwa chihuta,,, painzi chihuta chinorapa zvinhu zvizhinji,,, chikaita mbiri chihuta,,, izvezvi chihuta chakanganwika nezvacho kwava nemumvee,,, regai timboona. Gore riya painzi moringa ndiwo une yeses,,, pakambonzi Jatrofa yapedza dambudziko reFuel. Muchaonazve zvati mbombombo.
Anonymous · 7 months ago
Moringa hairape asi inoita kutimabody cells ashande zvakanaka. Google it for yourself
Makatukura · 7 months ago
Hauna rimwe zita here rechishonz
Bambo · 7 months ago
shamwauri uya usabate ndewangu kkk timboita mari.
+263 · 7 months ago
I think Mumvee uye ndiwo nemukuru wezanu
🤪 · 7 months ago
ZiG richaita simba, zvamoona kudai zvi, former governor vamangudya Panonetsa uyuJohn 1 aiti USD haizi mari ye kutenga matohwe, nemasawu, apa ka apa Hezvo mumvee woenda naro USD
· 7 months ago
Tudora twawandisa
gg · 7 months ago
Yaa , pa diabetes apa unenge unoshanda. I personally took the dosage for a month when I was diagnosed of diabetes at 13.8 level. During the course of taking the dose, I went for check up at a clinic and I found out that it had risen to 14.8. However, I continued taking the dose for a month, and I went for a check up and noted that it had declined to 7.4. I stopped taking up the dose. I then went for another check about two weeks ago and noted that it was at 6.4 level. All the time I was administering this mumvee on myself, I didn't restrict myself to a diet special for diabetic people. Now I am not on a special diet.
Zulu · 7 months ago
how do you prepare the medicine from Mumvee for diabetes
Mashasha💪 · 7 months ago
ndikutoutsvagawo inii😂
Egypt Dzinemunenzva. · 7 months ago
unoda wakawanda sei ndikupe
theLastAntKing · 7 months ago
mvee tree is amongst indigenous trees that grows fast unlike trees like musasa etc. These herbalist must be made to pay a fee that can be channelled to reforestation of these trees. it's only that Forest Commission is now as good as dead, these are the ones who should have been champions of planting trees thru their tree of the year program
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ZANU PF HARDLINER GUARDIAN OF THE FAITH · 7 months ago
iwewe Kiki ndichakupa yeke because Uri kanhu kanoda kaka syrup ye yeke

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