Home made remedy for sour throat (OGBE ORI AKUKO) HELIOTOROPIUM INDICUM

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Hello Hiveians

It is a thing Comfort to still have our elderly ones around teaching us the traditional medicinal use of many leaves root stems and leaves of plant.
This worked very well for sour throat and it is called (OGBE ORI AKUKO) in our native tongue.

My sister has sore throat and couldn't swallow anything, grandma has a garden where she has planted some these emergency medicinal plants and told me to fetch some of these leaves and this is how it was used for treatment of sore throat.

Collection of leaves.
I got enough quantity of the green leaves from the garden and carried out a simple surface sterilization with clean water and salt.

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Since the extract from this plant will be taking orally the surface cleaning of the leaves was important

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Two basic steps were to be used in the treatment.
First is to squeeze out the leaves extract using water and drink. This will kill any substance responsible for the sore throat from within

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While the external use around the mouth teeth throat and lips will be to scrub or brush the leaves around those places.

Note that it may come with unpleasant taste and smell taste but once you overcome it, this works very well for sore throat.

Checking around the internet I also found some other benefits and uses of it by other authors, I found out that it can also be used for menstrual pain and sickle cell crisis, you at want to check it out
here

After using this herbal leaves in that manner, the sore throat was better in less than 12hours and my sis was able to eat the following day, the soreness was completely gone.

Thanks for reading you can also add this to your list of herbal plants in the garden expecially for those living in cooler area that are prune to cold and sore throat.

Thank you



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