Bitterleaf and it's importance. 26-04-2022

THIS IS MY BITTERLEAF PLANT

Good afternoon steemians.
Bitterleaf is a local plant known in my local dialect as etidot and it is used for preparing some local delicacies, with a botenical name as vernonia amygdalina. Because of it bitter taste as the name implies Some children and adults are not friendly with this leaf for consumption.

For more than a decade I had known the leaf of this plant for its taste and for some soup consumption without taking time to observed the health benefits attach to it.

I visited a friend of mine in his house that had stomach ache so since he couldn't getup I offered to get him some drugs he declined the offer and rather asked me to pluck some leaf of bitterleaf plant, I did and he asked me to extract the juice into a cup for him to drink I did as directed by him and it wasn't upto ten minutes he was completely fine. I was surprised at this because I never knew bitterleaf could be used for any other thing rather than soup, he laughed and started feeding me with some important health benefit of the leaf, I believed him to some extent until I carried out a person research, then I find out that the health benefits of the bitterleaf plant are:

1.It relieves fever and feverish condition: if one is feeling feverish it is advisable you squeeze the juice of this leaf into a cup and drink it 3times daily.

2. It helps to reduce high sugar level in the blood.

3.The leaf also helps to nourish the skin.

4.this leaf also help to increase breast milk in nursing mothers: from my research I have find out that bitterleaf also help to increase breast milk in nursing mothers.

From my experience today I can conclude that no knowledge is a waste and no man has the monopoly of knowledge. If it can take me over a decade to discover that bitterleaf is not only used for soup but for other medicinal values, it therefore means that learning is a never ending process. Thanks to steemit.

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