Sometimes I wonder what we would have done as humans without nature, are we going to invent herbs? Or probably design a robot that will vomit herbs and spices or just walk our way around something to get all we need for our health and wholeness. But the creator of the universe in his abundance of love decided to spice up our lives with natural goodies, he has given us herbs, spices, and vegetables with root and tuber crops for our consumption but it's so painful these days that 60% of human don't know the importance or let me say benefits of this natural blessings.
Jute mallow popularity known as ewedu in my tribe is one of the best vegetables you can see around, it is a species of shrub. Many use dried leaves as tea and also as a soup thickener, it helps with indigestion but merely seeing it people don't know the importance especially when it's been freshly cooked. In my country, jute mallow is popularly known by my tribe as one of the best soups we use in eating one of our local food and I can say it is nutritious.
Kudos to Indians they so much value natural endowments than we do here in my country, they know what each herb, shrub, vegetable, and spice works for and they include them in their meals but I guess the cost of living in this part of the world is the reasons behind people not taken natural vegetables as they should. Many vegetables that we commonize today are of utmost importance to our health but we don't use them because we don't know how effective they are. Herbs and vegetables are turned into tablets and caplets drugs we use today in the chemical form while neglecting the fresh ones we can use people prefer to go for the ones with chemical compositions. In the Asian part of the world, they make good use of our natural herbs, vegetables, and shrubs for medicinal purposes because they know how effective and healthier it is but in this part of the world, we have forgotten the goodness in nature. I remembered growing up in those days when anyone falls sick, pills are not easily found then so our parents quickly subscribed to natural herbs, and when the correct ones are taken the sickness get cured in no time but as civilization started setting in we let go of all these things easily.
Aside from vegetables, spices, and, shrubs, another good gift of nature are flowers, do you know some flowers are medicinal? Many might not know because we don't study about them. Let's take hibiscus 🌺 as an example, many know it as a flower but on the other hand hibiscus is an effective medicinal plant, it can be used in the treatment of cancer, gall bladder attacks, lower blood pressure, relieve dry cough, and to treat skin afflictions. See all the goodness embedded in one plant why then did we neglect all these useful plants and not make them beneficial to us to improve our health? Hibiscus can also be used to treat loss of appetite, inflammation and also as a diuretic to increase urine output.
Other flowers also comes with their own peculiarities and they have their own medicinal values also , all we need to do is to study them and make good use of them .
Nature has been so merciful to us that it has given us all we could ever ask for concerning healthy living it is left to us to maximize the great opportunity given to us.
