Planning on visiting the Caribbean, more specific the island of Jamaica.
If you are, and, you are also thinking of improving your health, you can enjoy, sun, sea, beaches while doing so on the island. The best asset of any island is it’s bushes collectively.
After all the Bible itself advises us that the ‘greens’ of the earth are the best for our health. Not all Jamaicans are clueless about the ‘green gold’ of the island.
The island possesses so many medicinal qualities and elements proven to exist in the green herbs – what Jamaicans sometimes call bush, wild bush, fruits, foods, trees, and plants. It seems that everything growing Jamaica is good for something.
Here is a quick chart of herbs 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 have come to Jamaica’s shores, travelling across the island to make purchase of most if not all of these herbs or ‘bushes’ so often rejected by natives of the island. In recent times the Jamaican guinea hen weed has been most sought out.
In these naturally grown elements of nature, whether it is a tree, plant, shrub there are found different medicinal purposes depending on the section used. For example seeds, leaves, roots, veins usually carry different medicinal uses.
List of foods, herbs, bushes, plants, spices with medicinal value includes:
FOODS, FRUIT of MEDICINAL VALUE
Cucumber
Cho cho
Carrot
Cassava
Banana
Banana sucker s
Banana Green fruit
Lime juice
Lime Leaf
Coco
Pear
Sour orange
Pumpkin
Papaya
Breadfruit
Young unopened ackee
Young ackee Leaf
Ackee & red water grass
Soursop and honey
Guava
Ripe mango
Coconut oil
Cocos
SPICES for MEDICINE
Ginger
Green pimento
Pimento Leaf
Cinnamon
Cinnamon Bark Spice,
Basil Leaf
Basil, cowfoot, rum
Radish
Radish Swollen root
Garlic
Pimento & ginger
Nutmeg
TEAS for MEDICINE
Peppermint
Peppermint Leaf
Spearmint
Colic Mint
Fever grass
Ganja
Soursop
Guava
Lime
Cerasee
Sorrel
Hibiscus
Pepper elder
Search mi heart
MEDICINAL PLANTS
Rat ears
Briar wist
Rat ears, susumba,
leaf of life
John Charles
Tobacco
Spirit weed
St. Vincent stake
Aralia Aralia
Susumba
Leaf of life
Chicken weed & Semi contract
Salvia serotina & Chenopodium
ambrosioides
Leaf Cough
Cow itch
Marigold Cosmos
Dog blood
Red coat
Red leaf lds
Red and white
Pudding wist
Briar bush
Jack in the bush
Liquorice (John Crow)
Joseph coat
Sour orange
Maiden Hair Fern
Ramgoat national
Love bush
Elder flower
HERBS and BUSHES for COLDSGuinea hen weed
Parsley
Sarsaparilla
Mojo herb,
Jack in the bush,
St. Vincent stake,
Aralia, & Aloe
Aloe vera
Leaves Colds
Bee
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