 Goats eat the leaves and especially the flowers of "M. dhofarensis", however the fruit is poisonous and can cause the goat to fall ill with shivering attacks and develop a raised temperature.Many species of "Maytenus" are important in traditional medicine, and another species in the Celastraceae, "Catha edulis", grown in the mountains of south-west Arabia and Ethiopia is the sources of Qat.In Yemen, the leaves of "Maytenus" species are used to make a tisane which is drunk to relieve pains in the stomach; the roots of "Maytenus senegalensis" are chipped into shavings and added to beer to be drunk as an aphrodisiac in parts of Africa.