#Club75||Weekly Contest ||Important of Scent Leaf (Ocimum gratissimum)

INTRODUCTION

Hello my great friends, hope you are all in good health? It’s important to always give attention to our health especially when it comes to what we put in our mouth.
As an entry to the contest organized by @abu78, I will like to talk about a particular plant known as Scent Leaf. In my locality, it is called Ntonng. Most folks use it to cook meat, rice, and even beans as a spice, while some drink it in ethanol or just raw.

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This plant is very medicinal, with its spicy taste, and sweet aroma when cooked, you wouldn’t really want to miss it if it can be found in your neighborhood.

WRITE ABOUT A PLANT OR TREE, IT SHOULD BE A PLANT OF HEALTH BENEFITS

As I mentioned earlier, I want to talk about scent leaves. Scent leaf can be found in my environment here in Uyo, It is very common and most folks use it a lot in cooking because of its benefits. It is also used in different locations in Nigeria. Its botanical name is Ocimum gratissimum.

DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PLANT OR TREE YOU HAVE CHOSEN

This plant is used for cooking it can be used to cook beans, jollof rice, pepper soup, local rice, stew, peppered chicken, yam porridge, and plantain porridge.
Scent leaf helps in the quick digestion of the food we eat, it plays a major role when it comes to a calming effect on the stomach and helps with the evacuation of the bowel. Scent leaf can protect the pancreatic islets that produce insulin from the damage it can also lower blood sugar.

Scent leaves can be used to pursue houseflies, little wonder why you may have noticed why most meat sellers place it on fresh meats, just to reduce the number of flies that are patched on the meats. Some folks plucked or cut scent leaves and placed them on where they live in other to serve as a resistance for mosquitoes, other insects, thereby reducing the population of mosquitoes and houseflies in residences. When the leaves pursue these mosquitoes, it will reduce the spread of malaria.

When crushed and rubbed on a skin infection, it is really effective in treatments. Its capability to increase vascular permeability makes it to be extensively used in treating and dressing injuries, boils, and pimples. It contains composites similar to epigenin fenkhona and eugenol that maintains optimum penile health and sperm vitality thereby easing construction in men.

Piecemeal from its health benefits, its versatility is also amazing. This is why many folks that know its values might want to have it in their own homes. Some pustule, squeeze and smear it and drink and it has been proven that people who do this regularly hardly fall sick. It's thus judicious that people shouldn't neglect this condiment.

Yet, before consumption, we must take into cognizance the fact that remedial sauces can be as important as traditional medicines. In some cases, it can interact with some specifics. As similar, it should be treated with utmost caution.

PLEASE INCLUDE THE COUNTRY OR REGION THAT THE PLANT IS MOSTLY GROWN OR IS FAVORABLE TO THE GROWTH

This leaf can be found in other parts of the world like Ghana, Madagascar, Cameroun, Southern Asia, and the Bismarck Archipelago.

I will like to invite my friends @mile16, @ddwosky, and @aylinah to participate in this contest using this link: Weekly Contest | Write about a plant or tree and discuss the benefits, uses or importance of the plant.

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