THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF JATROPHA LEAVES POPULARLY CALLED EWE LAPALAPA IN THE YORUBA PART OF NIGERIA
How often do you make use of plants you are surrounded with? What are the health benefit of leaves you see around you? Are you making use of them in the positive ways. This is jetropha leaves known as ewe lapalapa in my mother tongue.As we all know that God created different leaves which some people have judiciously use in some positive manners.
What is so common about this leaves is that it grow by itself. You dont need some sort of seed or transplanting before it can grow. It can grow anywhere by luck and sometimes by transplanting.
What are now the health benefits of this wonderful leaves? And something is commonly common to this leaves, when its broken there is this whitish liquid that use to come out which is where the health benefit lies. This leaves have many benefits which they are
- The leaves is reportedly rich in beta blockers.
- It helps to reduce stress cussed by malaria.
- Its also an anti cancer agent
- Its also serves as anti microbial agent.
- Its help in correctional purpose of the tongue after recovering from a kind of chronic malaria.
This is where I came to use the leave because since I have recovering from malaria I have been a loss of appetite and my tongue taste weird which I can't even put into description. So what do I need to do? I just need to break the branch of the leaves and then make sure liquid is coming out of the broken branches, then rub it against my tongue, though its somehow bitter but not as bitter as bitter leaves. If that is done in 3 yo 3times, the tongue will regain it appetite strength. You can also try whenever you have loss of appetite occasion with recovering from malaria or typhoid.