Good morning everyone in the homesteading
How are you, I hope you are not falling sick because of the harsh harmattan weather and the week is going smoothly as you expected.
This morning as I was going about my morning domestic work in front of my compound, I noticed one uniqueness in one of my vegetable garden plant
All other green plants are getting brown and dying and some are nothing good to write home about but my Iyana ipaja vegetable plants remain as it was during the rainy season.
In this region of Africa, if you are not an experienced farmer or agriculturalist you stand a big chance of losing your crops and plants due to harsh harmattan conditions bringing dryness to plants and excess sunshine thereby killing the plant if water is not provided to the plants.
Jatropha tanjorensis which is scientifically called, is a west African know vegetables that can stand in as an herb and as food, it's known as the hospital too far or iyana ipaja by the Western people of Nigeria.
Euphorbiaceae family has these wonderful vegetables as part of the family and it is mostly planted in rainforest areas but can survive in any place.
BENEFITS OF JATROPHA TO HUMANS AND ANIMALS.
This plant is beneficial to both humans and animals, and all the parts of the vegetables are very important as none of the body parts is always a waste.
To humans, its parts such as stems, leave and other parts are used as herbs and the leave can be used as vegetables to cook while to animals it's used as feed which is highly rich in nutrients.
The herbal function is very unique as it can be a solution to some of our health issues such as diarrhea and dysentery through extracting the liquid from the leave and stems.
Our aged uses it to strengthen their blood vessels and bone by drinking the extract gotten from the vegetables.
Most people use it to maintain their blood pressure.
In most of our homes these plants can be used as a flower and most cocks uses to garnish food like salad and sauce.
One of the advantages and uniqueness of the plant during this season is the ability to survive without water
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