Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-08
WONDERS OF
| AN AFRICAN NUT
Natives Who Chew It Noted for
Muscular Development and
Ability to Endure
Hardship.
united STATES ARMY EXPERIMENTS.
Athletes Adopting TIA Specific for
|nebrety, an AntidOte for Opium and
a Remedy for Many Human Ills.

The unbounded success which has at
tended the use of Vino kolafra by college
athletic trainers and the beneficial results
derived from it by whole battalions oil
troops on march, and the recently reported
experiments made by the United States
Army authorities, is Attaching the atten
ton of the leading medical scientists OF
the world.
Vino kolafra is preparation from q
nut called raculia (also named Kolafra, q
product Of the West Indies and Africa
This nut is the fruit of tree which grows
from 30 to 90 feet in height It is OF
darkish hue, irregular contour and about
one half the size of an egg. The fresh nu,
is constantly carried and used by the ma
tiyes They chew it, and the benefits are
direct and potent These nut chewers are
noted for their muscular development,
symmetry Of physique. power to endure
hardship and toll and apparent exemption
from sickness and disease. They are
bright, active and athletic, and attribute
their condition to the use of this nut
This article, in the form Of Vino kolafra,
Is now extensively used in this country by
athletes in training, and physicians pre-
scribe 1t in their treatment of patients.
1t has been largely experimental with
In army circles. A modified form OF
kolafra, which is exactly the same in
effect, has been adopted by the French and
German armies as part of their marching
rations, and it is now being tried
in the United States Army with the view
of adopting it for the same purpose, as in
the language of Trainer Murphy OF the
New York Athletic Club, lit is impossi-
BILE Go make man tired while taking
Kolafra, it's tonic properties being inval-
liable.
DIR. A. L. GIhon, Medical Director L.
S. Navy. Washington. in q detailed re
port of the action of this remedy
made to the Naval Medical Society, says
that he bad OCCASION to use it in the treat
ment of neurasthenia. The patient was
lady Her nervous system was seriously
derapged, she suffering with excruciating
headache, nausea, insomnia, great despond-
eDcy, palpitation, inter costal neuralgia
and imperfect secretions. After treatment
with quinine, arsenic. iron, bitter tonics,
guarana, etc. the symptoms were not miti-
gated. He then administered prescrip-
ton made from this nut with remarkable
effect. The headache disappeared entirely
the appetite was recovered, muscular vigor
regained, and mental detection relieved
refreshing sleep produced and the secre-
tons becameinormal. The remedy caused
no gastric disturbance or constipation, as
had attended the prior use OF chocolate
The remarkably satisfactory results Of this
case induced him to recommend the
remedy rs a nerve stimulant and an in
MIGRATING and waste preventing agent in
other neurasthenic cases 1t produced its
effects without marked excitation of tt y
circulation, and consequently with no
after effects of depression or exhaustion
1t is mental exhilarant, overcoming des-
pondenoy and bri ghtening the intellect
without resultant langaor 1t imparts
tone TO the muscular apparatus and secret
ing organs
In a subs equeat article DR. Gihon rcit-
crates his opinion of the therapeutic value
of this remedy, and cites the case of phy
sicion wife, who was So fferer from ag
gravatiDg sick headache, great prostration
and other nervous phenomena. The sue
cess in this case was as pronounced as In
the one first stated. A few doses of the
remedy was followed by speedy abate-
ment and final disappearance of the Gus
tomary monthly attack of headaches,
which had been in all previous cases ex-
ccedingly persistent and intensely painful.
There are only two of a long list OF sue.
cessful experiments with the article de
tailed in the leading medical journals.
Vino Kolafra is the form in which the
nut is generally used, it being most ctii-
eient, more palatable and agreeable to
take. Its action on the system is that of
a powerful tonic invigorant and stimu-
liant. In the case of soldiers. athletes and
persons undergoing unusual physical
hardships, 1t stimulates the heart, causing
a strong, regular pulse beat, producing an
even stimulation of the whole muscular
system, and at the same time imparting
prolonged strength and endurance; allay-
ing hunger, preventing all waste and re-
storing energy Indeed, it may be called
Natures own tonic and stimnlant. leaving
no detrimental reaction, as in the case of
alcoholics, but generating and developing
nervous force and muscular strength by
Natures own methods, penetrating to
every part of the body, acting on every
cell of blood, muscle and bone tissue until
ali portions are alike benefited.
AS stimulant in athletic training it is
highly recommended by NJ. e. Murphy,
trainer of the n. I. A. c. and Yale col
legs; by Arthur Il. Lumley. editor and
proprietor of the New York Illustrated
News, and numerous other athletes and
trainers. The intense thirst provoked by
athletic training is only aggravated by
alcoholic stimulants. In Vino Kolafra is
found remedy which not only allays this
thirst and alcoholic craving, but prevents
nausea, so often attendant upon over
training 1t maintains the equilibrium
of the heart beat, producing free and un-
labored respiration during long tasks of
active exercise.
The use of Vino Kolofra is also indi-
Gated in alcoholism. DR.. James Neish of
Jamaica, says of the remedy: For in
ebriety it is specific; single fresh nut
ground up and made into paste with
water or spirits will cause all signs of in
toxication to disappear in half an hour. "
1t produces no bad effects, causes sense
Of lightness and we'll being, nervous de-
preston ceases and the mental condition
Of the patient is at once changed 1t does
not produce habit and tho use can be
at any time 1t quickens the
brain and excites the imagination 1t
the effects of alcohol, opium.
ETC., and satisfies the inordinate craving
for such stimuIants, producing a feeling