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RE: Durban's Summer Flowering Trees
Truly beautiful flowering trees and amazingly, every single one of them has been utilized for a job! I wonder how many we have that we render useless because we don't realize their properties.
People relying on trees and Mother Nature to provide medications! I am so taken with home remedies. They seem to be the best for so many things.
A lovely walk, Joan. You live in such a beautiful country with loveliness surrounding you! Thank you for sharing the pictures and for all the information on the trees!
Have a great day!
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Tree bark is used often in traditional medicines plus many other uses, handed down to the Sangoma or Inyanga, both extremely important in Southern African culture South African Traditional Healers
Trees offer so much we never stop to consider what is in this tree. A local friend opened a soap factory where a Sangoma (term mainly used where I live) had to be present to observe use of correct herbs, roots, bark going into different soap for different cleansing, Sangoma also had his people supply stock it is a trade still being used. Each soap carefully labeled in variety of different colours even a black soap. It was an usual learning curve watching the process.
One regret is we were never taught a local dialect growing up, many who grew up in KwaZulu-Natal learned Zulu, something not offered living in-land six hundred kilometers away.
Thanks for visiting, yes trees, each one an interesting character all on it's own.
How interesting the culture is, Joan! Thank you for sharing it!