STEEM PLANTS CONTEST Week #14 ||OREGANO||
Greetings @knopka145. How have you been? Anyway, it's great to be here again. This is @hae-ra from Philippines. It is my pleasure to share with you my #steemplant at home. It is oregano.
OREGANO is one of our herbal plant at home. The plant that has many benefits and is very known herbal medicine for coughs and colds.
One day, when I went to my hometown, my siblings were having coughs including me. But lucky for us for we have this plant in the backyard.
So my mother went out to the backyard and get a lot of leaves. We were making oregano juice to drink.
PROCEDURES
👉 Get the leaves from the plant.
👉 Wash the leaves thoroughly with water.
👉 Put it in a bowl. As you can see, we were using the coconut shell.
👉 Crush the leaves to make the juice out. We used a piece of hard stone as a crusher.
👉 Squeeze out the juice from the leaves.
👉 Strain.
👉 Put it in a glass.
👉 Ready to drink.
I also added a short video here on what I was doing. 👇
https://youtube.com/shorts/XCr6lX3WZ0k?feature=share
Oregano is known to it's subtle taste when you drink it's juice. It is difficult to understand, because it's the way between bitter and sweet but it has a lot of benefits where in fact it is very useful until now. But sad to say, oregano seems to be part of endangered plants already.
Aside from using it as a medicine, oregano is one of the best ornamental plants we could see at home.
6 Science-Based Health Benefits of Oregano
👉 Rich in antioxidants.
👉 Help fight bacteria because it contains certain compounds that have potent antibacterial properties.
👉 Could have anti-cancer properties.
👉 High in antioxidants.
👉 Help reduce viral infection.
In ancient times, Greeks would plant oregano around their homes in hopes of warding off evil spirits. It is even believed that ancient Greeks would wear a wreath of oregano on their head during sleep to encourage psychic dreams.
https://greekreporter.com/2021/05/25/oregano-the-quintessential-ancient-greek-herb/#:~:text=In%20ancient%20times%2C%20Greeks%20would,sleep%20to%20encourage%20psychic%20dreams!Source
Having plants at home could help us reduce stress and help us to breathe freely.
That would be all for now. Thank you for the time.
Hello! :) I am also glad to see you among the participants. Why is oregano an endangered plant? I thought it was enough just to grow it from seeds?!;)
@knopka145 thank you so much for noticing my post. I could say that it is almost endangered now because unlike other plants that you could see it everywhere, oregano is rare already, just don't know in some other places but here in the Philippines, I couldn't see a lot now, and we plant it through cutting.
En casa nunca me falta una planta de orégano es muy buena para la cistitis.
@rosinat yes it's really a good herbal. and aside from that, you could also put it in the cooking tp have some aroma.