Alligator Pepper, The Super Nature’s Gift

Atare in Yoruba. Alligator pepper is the English name. The Botanical name is Aframomum melegueta. It is also called grains of paradise.

Alligator pepper is an herbaceous perennial of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae). It’s being sold it with its pod. In West Africa, we use it in cuisine, in cooking because of its heat, pungency, and spicy aroma.

It is packed with many health benefits and it has many cultural and traditional uses.

In Yoruba culture, Alligator pepper is often given to a newly born baby as part of the routine baby welcoming process, it is often used along with bitter cola and other kola nuts at ceremonies and is a welcoming gift to visitors.

The health benefits of alligator pepper are many, but one major health benefit is sexual disorders.

Alligator pepper is an aphrodisiac, i.e. it stimulates erection in males.

It stimulates the production of testosterone, a hormone responsible for sperm production. Any herb that is classified as an aphrodisiac can cross the brain-blood barrier and quickly stimulate areas of sexual arousal in the central nervous system.

It also increases blood circulation to the penile area, increasing the duration of sexual activity or performance. It is also used in the treatment of constipation, indigestion, hemorrhoid, worm, schistosomiasis, vomiting, infertility, asthma, arthritis, boil, pimple, Etc.

 

General Usage

• Eat few seeds before meals to cure indigestion.
• Eat few seeds at bedtime to improve erection while you eat healthy foods, avoid unhealthy oils and sugar.
• Chew few seeds to prevent vomiting /nausea
• Grind seeds of alligator pepper, mix with honey and drink two spoonfuls daily for the management of Low Blood Pressure.
• Dried powder of Cerathoteca sesamoides (ewe ekuku in Yoruba) and alligator pepper is a super recipe for sperm production.
• Varicocele (An enlargement of the veins within the scrotum)
• Alligator pepper, Ginger, Epo ahun (alstonia bonei), GANGRONEMA latifolium stem (Madumaro) Carpolobia lutea (Egbo osunsun) Tincture.

Uses in Energy Medicine
Apart from its ceremonial uses and health benefits, Alligator pepper is important in Traditional medicine because it is an energy plant.

Its seed wakes up the energy in us and it increases Ase (Command and it happened) on our tongue. It makes our words carry the heat of creation and it opens doors to the realm of VITALISM, according to many scholars in herbal medicine.

If you want to pursue someone out of a house or room or shop, get one Atare seed, put it in the hole of Ants, the Ants will bring the seed out, repeat it 3 times, the third time they bring it out, use something to hold or carry the seed, don’t let your hand touch it, drop it in the room or house, the person occupying the room or house or shop will pack and go.

We have hundreds of other uses of alligator pepper like the above.

Atare (alligator pepper) is also ajeogun (fertilizer of herbal medicines, makes the medicine effective).

It is used in burning many herbal preparations to make the preparation very effective. It rarely has health benefits to the mixture.

Like Atare (alligator pepper), any other herbs that emit vibration can serve as powerful protective herbal preparation from negative attacks by increasing positive energy.

Nature is powerful beyond what we can comprehend, enjoy what nature has blessed us with to improve your life/health.