Category: Nature’s Pharmacy

Nature’s Pharmacy

How Guava Fruits and Leaves Improve Female Fertility

Benadine Nonye
How Guava Fruits and Leaves Improve Female Fertility

Guava fruits and guava leaves improve female fertility: Having babies has been the problems of many homes, situation that might tear down young homes. Children do act as mediator between the father and the mother and sometimes become the link to their stay together. Some couples might face difficulty in getting babies especially the inability of the woman to be pregnant. Suggested medication to trigger hormones in the woman’s womb help to some extent. There’s one substance present in Guava called ‘ folate ‘ by scientists. They found out that…

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Health Benefits of Stubborn Grass (Sida Acuta)

Benadine Nonye
HEALTH BENEFITS OF STUBBORN GRASS (Sida Acuta)

Every plant that exists including Stubborn Grass (Sida Acuta) has it’s own advantages and disadvantages. Thou we see most of them as weeds and grasses, some of them also possess amazing health benefits that some of us may not even be aware of. Today, we are going to be looking at the health benefits of a popular grass known as “The stubborn grass”. Botanical name: Sida Acuta Sida acuta (Stubborn Grass), is regarded as astringent, tonic and useful in treating urinary diseases and blood disorders, bile, liver and as treatment…

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Health Benefits of Pounded Yam

Benadine Nonye
Health Benefits of Pounded Yam

Pounded yam (Dioscorea spp.) are a good source of vitamin C – 27% of the daily value for fighting infections such as colds and flu and quick wound healing, anti-aging, strong bones, and healthy immune function. It also provides good amounts of fiber, potassium, manganese, and metabolic B vitamins. Brief History on the Benefits of Pounded Yam Centuries ago, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine made this great statement saying “Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine, your food”. So you see, food especially real natural food has…

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11 Healing Powers of Siam Weed (Awolowo Leaves) Updated

Benadine Nonye
Siam Weed with Healing Powers

Siam Weed (Chromolaena odorata) popularly known as Awolowo Leaves also called Independence leaf is a flowering shrub with amazing healing powers and health benefits which are mostly unknown to mankind due to lack of information about this amazing plant and they belong to the sunflower family.  It was discovered in Nigeria shortly after our Independence from the colonial rule in 1960. Some persons said maybe it was one of God’s way to soothe and heal our pains as a Nation, but I believe it was a beautiful coincidence. The fact…

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29 Healing Powers of Bitterleaf (Vernonia Amygdalina)

Benadine Nonye
Bitterleaf

Bitterleaf (Vernonia amygdalina) with African common names include grawa (Amharic), ewuro (Yoruba), etidot (Efik), onugbu (Igbo), ityuna (Tiv), oriwo (Edo), Awɔnwono (Akan), chusar-doki (Hausa), mululuza (Luganda), labwori (Acholi), olusia (Luo), ndoleh (Cameroon) and olubirizi (Lusoga) is one of the widely use cooking vegetable in Africa and it can grow in any part of the world. Very few people are aware that this vegetable is highly medicinal and can be used to cure diseases as well as help to keep our body in good health condition. The important thing this leaf…

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15 Healing Powers of Scent Leaf (Ocimmum gratissimum)

Benadine Nonye
Scent Leaf

Scent leaf (Ocimmum gratissimum) is such an extremely blessed leave with so many healing powers but mostly recognised as home-grown shrub used mainly as spices for cooking delicacies for the sake of its unique and peculiar aromatic taste but scent leaf is definitely more than just a spicy for only cooking delicacies as it also possesses so many healing and medicinal powers. Most of us are not aware of the immense benefits of Ocimum gratissimum popularly known as scent leaf, efirin (Yoruba), nchanwu leaf (Igbo) and daidoya (hausa). Efirin, daidoya,…

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