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Published 3 January 2021
Fagara zanthoxyloides Lam is a much-branched tree with dense, dark-green foliage and abundant prickles. These prickles or thorns extend to the leaf stalks and the leaflets midribs. The leaves are elliptic, slightly obovate. The flowers are greenish-white in narrow axillary and terminal panicles usually without thorns. It is always in fruit between July and September every year.
What makes Fagara zanthoxyloides(also known as (Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides) unique is that it is used for the management of sickle cell disease. In the 70s at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, under the supervision of the late doyen of Nigerian Pharmacognosy, Professor Abayomi Sofowora, the anti-sickling property of Fagara was discovered and in those formative years of the university, the people who worked on this research were all labelled “Fagara disciples.”
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As befits a Sunday morning, an otherwise busy lane in a tony south Delhi locality is visibly empty. Except for a single nondescript building, outside which a few citizens are basking in the winter sunshine, peeping inside through its glass-panelled door at periodic intervals.
As minutes make way to hours, cars arrive and park and drive away adding to previous automobiles. New sets of restless faces replace the old ones as visitors enter and leave. The waiting lounge is scattered with 20-odd wrought-iron chairs, mostly occupied, with patients who have travelled from all corners of the city.
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