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Miriam Kwari Herbal Space
Hello Friends. Welcome, yet again to herbal space where we are giving each other a Quick herbal concoctions Guide . I hope you find this interesting and helpful.
HIV
The teas that I refer to in this are user friendly and helpful if taken as complimentary support teas for conventional medicines. They should be taken carefully. For all HIV related issues, graviola and moringa are perfect additions. It is also advisable to drink a lot of veggie juice.
Prostate related issues
Eat lots of nuts, berries, figs, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, dates, onion, cucumbers, and your guchu made from muunga or mubayamhondoro bark and or mumvee bark.
Some fig leaf tea is also recommended for ta every once in a while during midmorning or afternoon break. Some men enjoy guava leaf tea flavoured with lemon and honey.
In times of painful urine, urinary tract infections and swollen glands, corn silk tea is of great benefit. A ¼ teaspoon of corn silk tea once or twice daily is a good addition to the daily meal plan. Flavour with lemon and honey to taste.
Men are no exception to the graviola — at night-band — wagon. Go for it and dilute with veggie water. There are plenty more options for male teas including nettle root tea.
Kidney
Small amounts of water to be taken at any given time to avoid water retention. Detox with beetroot juice red cabbage juice, watermelon juice and or red onion juice.
Get some peach bark and crush adding it to 2 litres of fresh water. Keep in a cool dark cupboard and the use it to dilute graviola at night by pouring 30ml graviola to 20ml peach bark juice.
Make it a habit to eat a lot of veggies and fruits including peach, beans, egg plant and make some raw juices.
Heart
Little amounts of water to be taken daily to avoid water retention. Make tea using cayenne pepper or turmeric and flavour with lemon and honey. A ¼ teaspoon measure for a cup of tea. The heart shaped maroon banana flower can be used as tea, also flavoured with lemon and honey.
Use graviola in little quantities at night only- 30ml diluted by 20ml veggie juice at night only.
Stroke
A ¼ teaspoon of turmeric combined with Sage to be used to make tea once daily first thing in the morning. Flavour it with lemon and honey.
Use a quarter teaspoon cayenne pepper to make mid-morning tea on alternate days. Flavour it with lemon and honey.
Graviola can be used at night daily by mixing 30ml of juice with 20ml veggie juice. Try using more greens and reds for veggie juice. Warm Comfrey leaf poultices torn up paralysed parts of those affected. Hot water is poured over the leaves and then placed on a piece of linen and applied. I also recommend a pillow filled with dried fern leaves (stems removed). The patient can put his/her head on this as they rest in bed.
Headaches
Use the following spices to make tea, even twice daily. Make a choice for a day at a time. Some people prefer to alternate the choices they make.
Turmeric
Rosemary
Mint
Fennel
Chamomile
Oregano
Peppermint
Lavender
Flavour graviola every night with veggie water, choosing also to alternate between the greens and the reds. Use the 30ml to 20ml proportion.
Diseases of the breast
Use calendula oil to apply on the breast 4-5 times daily. Freshly picked plantain leaves have to be applied as a poultice. Mix calendula, yarrow and stinging nettle (a pinch each) and have tea twice to three times daily. Graviola to be taken at night as usual.
Stomach cancers
I recommend Graviola intake at night. During the day one should make a habit of using 3 to 5 drops of wood sorrel juice (Donkey weed/Musauti) in a cup of tea made from a combination of a pinch of stinging nettle, a pinch of yarrow, a pinch of dandelion and a pinch of plantain.
Thyroid gland
A pinch of yarrow, a pinch stinging nettle and a pinch calendula combined or separately throughout the day. Remember to take graviola at night.
Piles/Haemorrhoids
Use elderberry leaves as poultice (juice) crush and add water then use cotton wool to squeeze into the anus. OR
Use juice of the sour fig flower to squeeze into the anus, once in the morning and once at night.
OR
Use senseveria or mother-in-law flower root. Crush the root and add a little water. Use the slimy juice to squeeze into the anus once in the morning and once at night.
Take graviola every night as instructed.
Eczema
Take graviola daily to cleanse and tone the blood.
Use bulbinella and or sour fig flowers as skin ointment,
OR
Use the dotted aloe as ointment.
Wash the affected parts with custard apple, (muzhanje wechirungu) leaf water. Make this water by crushing the leaves of the custard apple tree and adding water, allowing them to soak in before use. use the water to soak and rinse only affected parts after your usual and normal bath, mornings and evenings. The custard apple water wash or ointment has to be left to dry on its own before applying the bulbinella/sourfig natural juice.
Ulcer
Get a raw banana. Peel. Slice banana, and dry in the sun or in the oven. Grind it to a powder. Add powder to 2kg of zviyo and mix.
Add a level tablespoon graviola to the 2kg of banana and zviyo and mix well
Make porridge every morning using one heaped tablespoon of this mixture. Serve after adding lemon and honey to taste.
Do this till the 22kg meal is finished.
Drink graviola juice at night daily diluted by yellow veggie or green veggie juice.
For acid reflux remember to drink fennel, eucalyptus, and chamomile or mint tea during the day. Flavour with lemon and honey to taste and as usual take graviola at night as per instruction.
Gums/ teeth/
tummy-ache/ tonsils/ earache
1. Use sourfig for problem gums-(rub)
2. Use dusty miller for toothache –(paste)
3. Use sourfig for sore throat- (paste)
4. Use sourfig for tummy ache- (juice)
5. Use sourfig for tonsillitis-(chew)
NB: In addition a tooth brush dipped in the following combination of herbs can be used to massage the gums;
Lady’s Mantle
Oak bark
Sage
A pinch of Graviola
Herbs and pregnancy
During pregnancy, women should never use any herbs except for chamomile and fennel which can be taken as tea once daily. They are relaxing and baby-user-friendly.
Jaundice
Patients are encouraged to include a lot of yellow food in their diet. Rosemary tea is a good start for liver cleansing and a paw-paw seed may be taken like a tablet once a week. It is with no doubt that graviola is needed once daily at night as per instruction.
Cataract and glaucoma
The milk of the asthma plant has to be used as eye-drops mornings and at night before bed. Also use graviola at night and dilute with veggie juice as instructed.
Two to three cups of calendula and horsetail tea to be taken everyday flavoured with lemon and honey. Soak horsetail leaves to be used as sitz baths covering the kidney area. This removes pressure from the eyes that maybe caused by malfunctioning kidneys.
