A great article from the Conversation talking about Gumby Gumby and many other important indigenous plant medicines...
Pittosporum angustifolium – also known as “Gumby Gumby” – was involved in a significant number of traditional medicinal applications. The most common of these were related to treatment of coughs and colds and eczema, and for lactagogue (milk let-down) activity.
Volatiles from Gumby Gumby have structural similarities to compounds identified in mother-infant bonding(including acetic acid decyl ester or 1-dodecanol, if you’d like more detail).
Perhaps these compounds were traditionally involved as a lactagogue, particularly because the leaves were used in heating as a compress and to fumigate a nursing woman’s breasts.
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