STOP bashing the 'bush'. All doctors are bush doctors and all medicine is bush medicine. God gave the leaves of the trees to us for the healing of the nations (Revelation 22:2).

While it is not wise to use any leaf willy-nilly to make tea, it is true that plants have been scientifically proven to have many medicinal values, and hundreds of Caribbean folk recipes have been tested for their efficacy and toxicity. Google TRAMIL to learn more about Caribbean herbal recipes.

To give a few examples of how bush is used for health: Aspirin is from the willow bark, vincristine and vinblastine being used for leukemia is from periwinkle, and morphine is from poppy seeds. Essential oils are another example — peppermint, citrus, pimento, et cetera. Then there are our foods, fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices such as yam, dasheen, cocoyam, orange, banana, aloe, ginger, turmeric, noni, moringa, coconut, cerasee, neem, to name but a few.

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