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We know Saudi Arabia is a desert and I never thought I could plant what I want. Before we transfer to this mansion, I told my boss to give me a vacant space in front of the house for flowers and vegetables last 2009.

The first plant I planted was two moringa tree and they were both alive. Below the moringa, I planted two colors of periwinkle flowers. And also we had Arabic jasmine flowers which are called Sampaguita in Filipino languages.

This is my own photography I grabbed from my Facebook account

There was no building in front of our house before. I had so many kinds of vegetable on my old phone which was stolen. I planted okra, eggplant, and spinach. I had gumamela flowers and santan too on the left side. I also planted a lemon and Henna tree. And the most beautiful flower I won't forgot was the sunflowers.

Sunflowers and me in front of the house.

All of those photography is mine before steemit life. It was uploaded on FB under my username. I grabbed this to be part of this post I am going to submit in @naturalmedicine.

It gave beauty to the mansion and everyone was so amazed at how I managed taking care of the plant. I gave them water two times a day.

At the same time, it was not simplified for beautification of the house playground but it has health benefits within in every plant I used to plant. They were wondering how I made it.

Last 2017, I underwent surgery to my right eye and I was not taking care of the plant. All the vegetables and flowers died but the moringa tree survived.

BENEFITS Of MORINGA

From my perspective, before the internet told us, moringa is a good source of medicinal herbs when we had wounds and painful part of our body. Moringa also served as basic viand to us during my childhood. Would you believe that we just boiled water, put the moringa leaves into the boiling water with salt and became our daily sustenance? That was the reason why I planted moringa in Saudi Arabia. Nobody knew this plant before I came to this place. My employer won't believe me but they gave me consideration so I could cook my Filipino recipes out of moringa.

Time flies, my moringa became tall and I trimmed it twice a year. I just threw away the leaves in the garbage bin outside.

One day, I heard a news that it helps eliminate sugar to our body and has a high protein against carrot and another vegetable. Maybe it is true because my grandmother died at 89 and the other one is still alive at 94 years of existence. She is so healthy and no pain at all.

Convincing my employer

She was diagnosed with breast cancer and I made a moringa powder for her mix with yogurt every time she eats her meals. I also cooked soup with fish and moringa. I repeatedly doing it for how many years. I will not tell you that she survived her cancer and turned negative by the moringa but I thought it helped her too aside from the divine she took. Until today she has no cancerous breast anymore. She underwent surgery and radiation as well.

How I make the moringa powder?

Step 1:
Harvesting my moringa.

Step 2:
Do not dry it to direct sunlight. It must be in the process of air-drying for three to four days.

Step 3:
Blend it until it becomes powderize.

Step 4:
You can mix it with your tea or vegetable soup or yogurt.

Moringa as liniment

I was also making liniment with moringa and olive oil before I found bay leaves. I sold it 100 Saudi Riyal per bottle and the news spread around the relatives and friends of my employer. I was so happy that I got additional money at that time.
I have no saved picture on it.

Benefits of periwinkle flowers

All those green plants have a different color of periwinkle flowers.

The right side of the stairway.

The left side of the stairway.

Why I planted this periwinkle flower?

This is not just for a beautification of the playground or entrance of the house. Out of their knowledge, periwinkle root is a kind of medicine for the menstrual problem. It will normalize our menstruation and removed the infection in our ovary. I knew this from my grandparents. I don't know how true it is if it is base according to our modern science. All I share now is about what I learned from my grandparents. Basically, they didn't like going to the doctor but they relied on medicinal plants/ herbs. To make it clear, I am not convincing you to use it if you're doubtful.But I am using it sometimes.

Look at the flowers, it looks so nice. I feel so very happy when they bear flowers. I have a lot of works but planting made my days. I was raised up through farming in the province.

BENEFITS OF LEMONGRASS

I have lemongrass in the garden for my daily tea controlling my blood pressure. It could be mix with moringa leaves or the lemongrass alone. It also gives a good aroma to your tea.

I used lemongrass before my surgery during the birth of my son last 1990. It was my delivery date but I got high blood pressure. My baby did not come out and they could not give me any medicine. The baby became weak so I decided to drink lemongrass tea then later on my blood pressure became normal so the doctor got a chance performing the surgery. I gave birth through cesarean toy only son.

BENEFITS OF BASIL LEAVES

Basil leaves according to my grandparent is good for a kidney stone. Before there was no finding of kidney stone but according to my grandparents, when they can't urinate, they just boiled basil leaves and everything will be alright. We also use this in grilling a chicken. We put it inside the belly of the chicken with lemongrass and you can smell the delicious, aroma of the grilled chicken.

BENEFITS OF ALOE VERA PLANTS

It is good for the healthiest hair. It will help your hair grow, shines and glow. You can use it as a mask to your face and you will notice a difference in your skin tone.

BENEFITS OF OREGANO

Oregano is good for the relief o dry cough.
My procedure is just squeezing the leaves. When it produces liquid, drink one tablespoon quickly three times a day. Sometimes, I put the clean leaves in a glass of water overnight and drink it early in the morning or everytime I got thirsty.

I also use a dried oregano powder on my cooking.

BENEFITS OF LEMON LEAVES

We also have three trees of lemon but still, don't have any fruit. We use the leaves for the tea. It is also beneficial if we have sour throat and cough. When I am taking a bath, I mix the water in a pale and use it for my bath. I feel so refreshing and eliminate all bad odor especially in my private part.

BENEFITS OF SPINACH

The favorite of my boss. It is good to lower our blood sugar and blood pressure. It is usually used for lamb meat or even chicken soup.

We have the bougainvillea flower which is still growing. I hope it will grow so tall.

Sampaguita or Arabic jasmine don't have any flower yet. It is one of my collections.

Santan is also good for the menstruation problem.

The last plant but not the least is ATIS

This plant is already 5 years but it never grows. I hope it can survive. The leaves of this plant help ease the pain of our bodies. My grandparent told me that every night, you have to put 7 leaves in our rooms and we are safe from bad tongue of the people.

Our moringa now is only one. We removed the other one because its trunk became bigger and bigger. And every three months I'm trimming it and save the leaves. We grow another one near the entrance main gate and many people cut it without any permission. It's fine as long as they cut it for food or medicinal purposes.

The hot temperature of Saudi Arabia can not stop me from planting what I want to plant here.

I convinced the people here to plant moringa by giving them some of the branches I cut and successfully done. Since they already know all the nenefits, they are so grateful that I share my knowledge to them. As I can see, all my neighbors here had already owned moringa tree on their backyard.

This is my entry for the @naturalmedicine initiative. Thank you so much.

NOTE:
All information mentioned about the benefits of the plant was from my grandparents and tested by me.

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