Just as the name implies, bitter leaf has a bitter taste, such that you can smell if you take it close to your nose.
Bitter leaf grow faster and is big in Nature, it has many leafs, not like other Medicinal plant that tends to have few leafs.
It has a green color and some lines drawing on the leafs.
Uses of Bitter as a cooking leaf
Bitter leaf can be use in cooking, that is by using it in soup making as a leaf.
It can also be used in making source, in my community elders used it in eating bush meat and
It can also be use in clearing throats If you are having soar throat and this is make possible if you used it in making soup, it automatically clear soar throat.
Uses of Bitter leaf as an herbal plant
(1) Regulate the blood in the body: taking of bitter leaf either by eating it in soup or drinking the filter water can help the body in regulating blood levels an keep your body at the normal blood regulating rate.
(2) Treat fever: To treat feverish condition is another Functions of bitter leaf, when I was young, at the age of eight, my mum used to treat me and my siblings feverish condition through this herbal plant.
She will cut the leaf and afterwards, pound it and filtered the green color water then give it to each of us to drink.
And that is how the fever that wanted to develop in us will lived us.
(3) Joint aches: One thing that is amazing about Bitter leaf is that, it can be used as both in cooking dishes and it can also be used as an herbal plant, as an herbal plant, it also help in Joint aches, which has been use overtime over here.
(4) Stomach ache: Bitter leaf as an herbal plant, can also be used to cure stomach aches, it work one hundred percent and is Worth trying of you are feeling stomach ache.
(5) Malaria: Bitter leaf is used in treatment of malaria.
By drinking the green water after you have finished filtering it out of the Bitter leaf.