Have
you sometimes noticed that when you eat a heavy dose of green vegetables, say
in your soup, it tends to purge you? Well, your body was only trying to
enlighten you on a few nutritional facts regarding dark green vegetable (foods)
that you ought to know. It has been proven over the ages that green superfoods can do a lot of system
cleansing and set your body free of free radicals and toxins. This is a process
of immune boosting that protects you from infections and diseases.
Professor Adebukunola
O. Adefule Ositelu, is a renowned Nigerian University Don, and Professor
emeritus of the University of Lagos. She has recently formulated a research
which has revealed a natural immune booster that is present in a local green vegetable
or herb called Ewedu. The Ewedu
(plant) leaf is consumed enormously especially in the western parts of Nigeria
as a vegetable in traditional cookery. Ewedu is a flowering
herb and the leaves are eaten
throughout most of West Africa in sauces and soups but have not been
widely known to boost immunity.
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| Ewedu leaves |
The
plant, which is also referred to as corchorus
olitorius in Latin, is also known as
kren-kren among certain folks. Its leaves have usually long been
used to treat measles among traditional societies; it is also used
widely in Yoruba land of Nigeria in aiding pregnant women who are nearing full
term to child delivery. In this wise, it is specially prepared and taken as a
delivery and labour enhancing herb so that many of these women are able to put
to bed just like the Hebrew women as
it were.
Ewedu
can be used as an immune booster in this remedy formula according to Professor
Ositelu: Take enough quantity of Ewedu leaves, rinse and wash it with liquid
vinegar, then you blend it with clean water and cook for just five minutes.
Take it first thing in the morning before any other thing, freshly made about
25cl of the herb in an empty stomach once a week for prevention of illness and
as an immune boosting remedy. Apart from Ewedu (corchorus
olitorius),
all well known chlorophyll foods will detoxify, cleanse and boost your body’s
immune system.
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