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South Africa leaves

Summary : South Africa leaves the effectiveness of heat-clearing and detoxifying, feature heat and cooling blood, apply to lowering blood pressure, diabetes, wind-heat or blood-hot skin, and itching of the skin.

South African Plant or Pokok South Africa

That's the name of the plant’s cutting given by a two Chinese patients or rather cancer survivors. From just a small cutting, it grew to a considerable size, standing guard to the side entrance on the right, and on the left is the Momordica charantia plant, climbing the tall decorative plant. The other cutting - with me not really appreciating its value at that time - died on being neglected.



Just before Ramadan this year, i.e. since August 2008, I have been suffering a severe nagging pain in the left hip and had tried various remedies to no avail. Thought of it as possible bone metastasis. Then one day, a guy mentioned to DH that he heard people talking in the coffee shop, about one plant named "Pokok South Afrika" that is said to be good for all sorts of pain and chronic illnesses. Well, DH was excited and showed the plant to the man. He said the practice is by soaking three to four leaves in hot water, covering them and drinking the water after a while.



What we did was, we soaked 6 leaves in a mug of boiling hot water. Covered them for a while. DH drank the water and I ate the leaves. It was like making full use of the limited leaves. After five days, red spots appeared on our thighs. DH panicked and stopped, in spite of me telling him that it was probably healing crisis.

Well, I continued, but taking three to four young leaves with my rice. I chewed the bitter leaves with some rice and gravy at the beginning of my breakfast or lunch. After swallowing the leaves, after the bitterness cleared (not as bitter as Andrographis paniculata or Hempedu bumi leave, slightly less bitter than Elaphantos scaber or Daun tutup bumi), there is a subtle sweetness and what was more pleasing to me was the fact that the leaves took care of my appetite or craving.

In the past, after eating nasi lemak, I will be craving for a sandwich or whatever I saw other people were eating, but with the leaves, not only I was satiated by half pack of nasi lemak, but that was all, in fact for the rest of the day if I chose not to eat. No hunger pang, no craving. And yes, I forgot, the nagging pain is now just 10%, or rather I am not bothered by the pain anymore. That was after taking the leaves for a week. However, after the fasting month, I had also continued my twice a week jogging in the campus. That probably helped too.



Lilly Chew told me that the leaves from Pokok South Afrika is a "cure all." Saw Har, the other survivor who gave me the cutting, told me that she knew one lady who had cancer of uterus or ovary, and while waiting for op day, had taken the leaves regularly and pre-op ultra sound showed that the tumour had regressed and the op was cancelled. I am sure, that lady had other healing practices.

We usually hear such fantastic story about others who tried recommended remedy. I really don’t know whether it is truly a cure. Well, placebo is also a cure, what I called “faith at work.” What I know is that I can’t afford to wait for its therapeutic trials whether in animal or in human, but what I knew from taking the leaves is that it works for me. I guess those recommended herbs that are bitter, are good for us survivors. The bitter the better. Probably the bitter chemical inhibit the growth factor for tumour or cancer. ANY ONE KNOWING THE SCIENTIFIC NAME, PLEASE HELP!

Well, so much for medicinal herbs. By the way some of the shrubs and trees in my garden are turning into other live forms.

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