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Medicines of the World

Cameroon's Pain Killing Tree

27 min

Available until 11/09/2025

In late 2013 a Franco-Cameroonian team made an incredible discovery. A painkiller molecule, already developed in the laboratory, actually occurs naturally in the roots of a shrub: the African peach tree and traditional healers have always known about this remedy.

Director

Jacques Offre

Country

France

Year

2015

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