Common Yoruba Herbs, Uses And Their English Name

Common Yoruba Herbs, Uses And Their English Name. Need Herbs For Medical Issues? Check This Post Now!

Are you in search of helpful traditional herbs? Look no further as i have taken time to put together some yoruba herbs that are very effective that might be useful for you. These herbs works regardless of if you are black or white.  Let us go straight into them:

Common Yoruba Herbs, Uses And Their English Name

1. Parsley (Effirin)

The English name of is Parsley, it’s alluded to Parsley in Yoruba. Parsley has such a significant number of medical advantages for a wide scope of side effects and maladies.

It is from Petroselinum plant, the parsley plant and parsley basic oil have been utilized as a characteristic detox cure, germ-free and calming, diuretic and operator for a considerable length of time in society medication. Starting at now, explored back up wellbeing claims about we have for the plant.

2. Cayenne Pepper (Ata Gun)

Cayenne pepper is alluded to Ata weapon firearm in the Yoruba language. It’s in the Yorubaland, yet in addition among different societies in Nigeria.

Cayenne pepper has got some numerous medical advantages; It helps processing, slow intestinal gas, stop stomach torment, including mending annoyed stomach, it additionally stops loose bowels and as a characteristic solution for cramps. It’s additionally utilized for heart and veins – to improve helpless course, to turn around inordinate blood coagulating, lower elevated cholesterol and forestall coronary illness.

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3. Cinnamon (Oloorun)

Cinnamon spice is alluded to as Oloorun in Yorubaland. It medical advantages are; high wellspring of Antioxidants, advancement of heart wellbeing, contains Anti-incendiary properties, help battle diabetes and furthermore bring down the danger of malignant growth.

4. Mint Leaf (Ewe Minti)

Mint leaf is alluded to as Ewe Minti in Yoruba. It is a most loved spice. The leaves is a can be utilized in new or dried in numerous dishes and implantations. Mint oil is Always utilized in gum, sweets, toothpaste, and some excellence items. Medical advantages of mint incorporate assuaging of hypersensitivities and torments; it likewise forestalls gastric ulcer. It is useful for skin some different advantages.

Mint leaves (known as Menta in Spanish) are in the group of fragrant spices that are utilized to add explicit smell to dishes.

5. Spinach (Efo Tete)

Spinach is alluded to as Efo Tete. This plant is regularly utilized among societies and had tagged along path as a Herbal plant. To some culture, they never realized its medical advantages.

They just know it is consumable and it offers as they would prefer bud. On the off chance that you are one of them, simply realize that spinach medical advantage is hair and bone, asthma and malignant growth security, decrease of pulse, diabetes the board and advancement of solid skin.Image result for Spinach (Efo Tete)

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6. Turmeric (Atale Pupa)

Atale Pupa(Yoruba) is alluded to as Turmeric in English. This spice plant lower danger of mind harm builds the cell reinforcement limit of the body and coronary illness. This home grown plant can likewise help defer maturing, forestall malignant growth and battle age-related maladies among others.

Intestinal sickness plant, turmeric top home grown ‘remedies’ for multi-sedate safe

7. Sound Leaf (Bay Bunkum)

The Bay Leaf is alluded to as Bay Bunkum in yourba.

Medical advantages:

– It facilitates joint agony from joint pain

– It gives resistant help

– Help with sugar level parity

– Aids in processing, decrease blockage

– Help in improving scalp wellbeing.

8. Marjoram (Efo Ewuro)

Marjoram is alluded to as Efo Ewuro in Yoruba, The natural plant can be taken orally in an increasingly thought therapeutic structure or utilized topically and in fragrance based treatment as a basic oil.

The inward breath of marjoram fundamental oil is to quiet the sensory system and, thus, emphatically sway your cardiovascular framework by improving the blood stream and bringing down circulatory strain. It is additionally used to treat runny noses, gallbladder issues, sadness, tipsiness, hacks, stomach related issues, headaches, anxious cerebral pains, nerve torment and loss of motion too.

9. Celery (Seleri)

The Yorubas call the celery spice plant seleri. This likewise a plant that helps in bringing down aggravation, diminishing the danger of malignant growth, lessening circulatory strain and help with forestalling age-related vision misfortune.

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Other useful herbs in Yoruba language:

1. Basil plant – Nchanwu in Yoruba
2. Fenugreek – ewedu in yoruba, hulba in Hausa
3. Hibiscus plant – Zobo
4. Tamarind – tsamia
5. Tumeric – ata Ile pupa in Yoruba
6. Cayenne – Bawa
7. Bean stew – Shombo in Yoruba
8. Dark pepper – iyere in Yoruba, Oziza in igbo
9. Prickly pigweed/thorny amaranth – tete eleegun in yoruba
10. alternanthera nodiflora – Dagunro
11. Butryospermum paradoxum – Shea tree – Ori
12. Allium sativum – Garlic – Ayu in yoruba
13. Capsicum frutescens – Tabasco pepper – Ata-wewe
14. Lactuca capensis – Lettuce – Yanrin
15. Bryophyllum pinnatum – Air Plant, Life Plant, Miracle Leaf or Goethe Plant – Abamoda
16. Zingiber officinale – Ginger – Jinja, Atale in yoruba
17. Dioscorea dumetorum – Sweet Yam-Esuru
18. Enantia chloranta – Awopa
19. Sphenocentrum jollyanum – Akerejupon
20. Olax subscorpioidea – Ifan, Ifon
21. Tetrapleura tetraptera – Aidan, Aridan

22  Lecaniodiscus cupanioides – Akika

23. Lippia multiflora – Efirin-gogoro, Efirin-oko
24. Jatropha curcas – Botuje, Lapalapa
25. Jatropha gossypifolia – cotton-leaf physicnut-Botuje pupa
26. Jatropha multifida – coral plant, physic nut or Guatemala rhubarb – Ogege
27. Cymbopogon citratus – lemon grass-Kooko-oba
28. Pterocarpus erinaceus – Apepo, Agbelosun
29. Pterocarpus osun – Osun
30. Pterocarpus santalinioides – Gbengbe
31. Catharanthus roseus – Madagascar ruddy periwinkle – Apabida pupa
32. Carica papaya – Papaya – Ibepe
33. Dioclea scandens – Dasa
34. Dioclea reflexa – Agbarin, Epe, Arin
35. Lawsonia inermis – Henna plant – Laali, Lali
36. Ficus exasperata – Ficus Tree – Epin
37. Ficus asperifolia – Ipin
38. Ficus capensis – Opoto
39. Ficus elegans – Asoro
40. Ficus mucuso – Odan-afomo
41. Ficus thoningii – Odan-abaa
42. Ficus vallis-choudae – Ogunro
43. Vernonia amygdalina – Ewuro
44. Phyllanthus amarus – stonebreaker or seed-under-leaf-Eyin-olobe
45. Mucuna sloanei – Werepe
46. Mucuna pruriens – Ewe-ina, Yerepe
47. Alstonia congensis – Ahun
48. Mangifera indica – Mango – Mangoro in yoruba
49. Nauclea latifolia – Egbesi
50. Sorghum bicolor – Poroporo okababa
51. Senna fistula – Aidantoro
52. Erythophleum suaveolens – Erun obo, Olu-obo
53. Ocimum gratissimum – Clove Basil-Efirin
54. Telfaria occidentalis – Fluted gourd – Ugwu
55. Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides – Senegal thorny debris or artar root – Orin ata
56. Acalypha wilkesiana – Jiwini, Ewe larapupa
57. Sida cordifolia – wool weed – Iso-obo
58. Sida pilosa – Eesinle
59. Sida rhombifolia – Iseketu pupa
60. Thaumatococcus danielli – Ewe moi-moi
61. Azadirachta indica – Neem, Nimtree or Indian Lilac – Dongoyaro
62. Aloe vera – Ahon-erin
63. Aloe barteri – Eti-erin, Ida-egun, Ida-orisa
64. Garcinia kola – unpleasant kola – Orogbo
65. Ageratum conyzoides – Billygoat-weed, Chick weed, Goatweed, Whiteweed – Imi-esu
66. Abelmoschus esculentus – Okra-Ila

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