Plants have been employed in performing "wonders" in the past, wonders such as resuscitation, healing wounds, preventing pregnancy (birth control), curing barrenness and most importantly preventing most of the illnesses that plague us nowadays, examples are stroke, hypertension, fibroid, cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, just to mention a few.
Today, most of these plants have been left to grow fallow, some has even gone into extinction, with little-to-nothing being known about the ones we keep around us, we live in a world of "arrogant-disregard" for plants that produce and house the cure to most of our problems, little wonder why life-expectancy has dropped significantly over the decades.

With the help of modern-day science, experiments have been carried out to ascertain the "surviving-medicinal-claims" of some plants, in this blog post we will introduce one of the "wonder plants", a household plant that can be found almost everywhere.

Name: Jatropha carcus

Common names: Botuje, Lapalapa, physic nut.

Pharmacological activity; Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-fungal, antiviral, anticancer, antihypertensive, anticoagulant and coagulant, antihelminthic.


Indications:

Infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus from minor skin infections, such as pimples, impetigo, boils, cellulitis, folliculitis, carbuncles, scalded skin syndrome, and abscesses, to life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, toxic shock syndrome, bacteremia, and sepsis and Infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli.


HIV

Diarrhoeal

Toothache

Helminthic infection (worms)

Fibroid

Cancer