iTeach Contest: My Super Home Remedy.
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If you prefer home remedies, you must have already tried some of them. Natural home remedies like ginger, bitter leaf, turmeric, fenugreek and magnesium rich foods can save you a lot of time and effort and with very good results, all you have to do is know how to use them accordingly.
Maybe one day you used a home remedy, for example: herbal tea to treat a cold, essential oils to relieve a headache, or perhaps herbal supplements for better sleep. Maybe your grandmother told you about it or read about it on the internet. Below I will mention a scientifically proven home remedy I know.
What does home remedy mean to you?
It's a Traditional therapies often use natural products, nutritional supplements or physical measures. Its effectiveness may be supported by family, local or culturally accepted stories or rituals. It is also called folk medicine.
Do you consider home remedies better than chemically composed products? Why?
Chemical Composed Products helps us live longer
Modern medicine has extended our life spans and we can now treat illnesses and diseases more easily.
Home remedy included herbs and plants which were not always effective as people still died from simple diseases such as chicken pox or even the common cold.
Nowadays, medicine cannot always cure us, but it can reduce the effectiveness of our symptoms and improve our condition.
Home remedy is called Traditional medicine for a reason: it's considered a old-fashioned and outdated. It is not as active as modern medicine.
Some traditional treatments work well, but modern medicine only takes these traditional treatments and makes them more active.
Modern medicine can have side effects, but if used in moderation and not overdosed, modern medicine can be the most effective way to help yourself.
What's your super home remedy? What condition do you use it to treat?
Bitter leaf belongs to the family Asteraceae in the large genus Vernonia. The plant is a moderately canopied shrub found in open forest positions; often behaves around the dwelling.
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The leaves are wide, ovate and spirally arranged on the branches. Bitter leaf as a potted herb and source of medicine belongs to a special class in terms of cultural methods of preparation.
The leaves are squeezed in salt water to wash away the toxic materials that come out as foamy, brown exudates until they are clear. This is one form in which vegetables are sold in the market.
In the early 1980s, when the crusade for the use of herbal medicine began, bitter leaf was one of the abused local herbs. Some people drank the exudates that were traditionally washed from the leaves before being used as a vegetable.
I know two close friends who had massive skin eruptions that required medical attention! This is probably due to the presence of raphids, which are bundles of needle-like calcium oxalate crystals in the bitter leaf.
Bitterleaf is used as a vegetable, tongue or mixed with other vegetables. Did you know that bitter leaf is made into capsules in the USA? I saw a picture of the bottle last month and thought, “Is anyone else in Africa buying this?
Bitter leaf has been used as a food and medicine in Africa for centuries. The plant has a wide range of uses in African traditional medicine and is used in the treatment and management of a number of health conditions.
This leaf contains minerals such as zinc, manganese, iron, potassium and calcium.
One of its specific advantage is:
The best way to enjoy its benefits is to extract the raw bitter juice and drink it.
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Bitter leaf helps relieves stomach pains. I can remember when I used to experienced stomach pains and I was told to take its juice every morning to stop the pains. The pains stopped in two days, I also noticed when I started taking the it's juice its helps in digestion also.
Show us how your super home remedy is prepared (step by step) and the application. (Own images are required here since it's a home remedy).
Extracting Bitter leaf juice is very simple and it's doesn't require a long process.
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First thing you need to do is that, you will need to get the leaf. After getting the leafs, you make sure you washed thoroughly with a clean to remove the dirts and bacteria that's is on the leaf.
After washing you look for a blender or kitchen mortar. When using kitchen mortar you will need to pound the leafs, after blending the leafs into pieces you get a clean water and park the leafs in water then try to squeeze the leafs for the juice to come out very well.
Then look for a filter and separate the leafs from the juice. That's how to get bitter leaf juice.
Thanks for reading.
I really thank the organizers of this contest, this contest will make so many people know many home remedies and how to use them.
I invites @negro-bby @tayyba1234 @graceani to participate in the contest.
You written very informative post . It's inspiring and I found new remedy. Good dear keep continue .good job.
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