All natural Jamaican food and fruits for good health

More and more persons are writing in to ask about Jamaican foods, plants, bushes to assist with their health immunity, treatments and so on. More persons worldwide are discovering that a trip to Jamaica promises improvement in one’s health, aside from offering sun, sea, beaches. The best asset of any island, and especially Jamaica, are what’s found naturally and for sure what improves and maintains good health and a high quality of living at good costs.
The Bible itself advises that the ‘greens’ of the earth are the best for our health. Not all Jamaicans are clueless about the ‘green gold’ of the island.
Jamaica as an island possesses so many medicinal qualities in the ‘greenery’. It almost seems as if everything growing that’s green has some medicinal value or another.
What Jamaicans sometimes call bush, wild bush, fruits, foods, trees, and plants can either be eaten or had as tea, or extracts can be used in drinks, medicines and so much more.
Here is a quick chart of herbs, plants, fruits growing on Jamaican soil, their uses.

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The list is not exhausted. Combinations of bushes and other factors are also good.
Take for example that the Jamaican seaweed when boiled with garlic and ginger makes a good combo for circulation.
Many are the scientists, professors and doctors who visit Jamaica’s shores, travelling across the island to make purchase of most if not all of these herbs or ‘bushes’ so often rejected or overlooked by natives of the island. In recent times the Jamaican guinea hen weed has become the latest priceless ‘gold’.
Now remember that in these naturally grown elements of nature, whether it is a tree, plant, shrub different medicinal value exists, depending on the section used. For example seeds, leaves, roots, bark, veins usually carry different medicinal uses.
Also note that across Jamaica, several persons studying herbology are available to advise you. It’s always wise to consult, as an overdose of anything can be harmful. It is imperative to also consult a physician especially if you are prescribed medication.
On any island be weary of consuming anything that seemingly grows too wild, or in an area where it can be tampered with such as by animals who wander around and urinate on the bushes.
While in Jamaica, or before, or even if away make your research thorough and from trusted sources as your part towards good health. On this site you have access to a few herbalists who are and can be recommended and who have been tried, tested and proven sure. From these persons you can also get products and biproducts such as liquours, juices, drinks and cakes made from extracts or the actual grown elements.
All the best.

List of foods, herbs, bushes, plants, spices with medicinal value includes:

JAMAICAN FOODS, FRUIT of MEDICINAL VALUE include:
Ackee (Young unopened)
Ackee tree (Young ackee Leaf )
Ackee & red water grass
Banana
Banana suckers
Banana Green fruit
Beetroot
Breadfruit
Carrot
Cassava
Cho cho
Coconut oil
Coco
Cocos
Cucumber
Guava
Lime Leaf
Lime juice
Papaya
Pear
Pumpkin
Ripe mango
Sour orange
Soursop and honey

JAMAICAN SPICES for MEDICINE include:
Cinnamon
Cinnamon Bark Spice,
Basil Leaf
Basil, cowfoot, rum
Garlic
Ginger
Green pimento
Nutmeg
Pimento Leaf
Pimento & ginger
Radish
Radish Swollen root

JAMAICAN TEAS for MEDICINE include:
Cerasee
Fever grass
Ganja
Guava
Hibiscus
Lime
Pepper elder
Colic Mint
Peppermint
Peppermint Leaf
Spearmint
Soursop
Sorrel
Search mi heart

MEDICINAL PLANTS inlcude
Ambrosioides
Aralia Aralia
Briar bush
Briar wist
Chicken weed & Semi contract
Cow itch
Dog blood
Elder flower
Jack in the bush
John Charles
Joseph coat
Leaf of life
Leaf Cough
Liquorice (John Crow)
Love bush
Maiden Hair Fern
Marigold Cosmos
Pudding wist
Ramgoat national
Rat ears
Red coat
Red leaf lds
Red and white
Salvia serotina & Chenopodium
Sour orange
Spirit weed
St. Vincent stake
Susumba,
Tobacco

JAMAICAN HERBS and BUSHES for COLDS include:
Aralia,
Aralia, & Aloe
Aralia guilifoylei & Ginger
Aloe vera
Bee

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