✍ October 3, 2023
Cheerful Enthusiasts,
I have always loved Gumamela. It’s colorful and pleasing to the eyes. I’ve known Gumamela zince I was a child. I can’t remember the first time I’ve zeen it but all I know is that I have always wanted to zee it.
I’ve gotten to know and zee more about gumamela during our zcience class when I was in elementary. Our teacher explained the flower parts by using gumamela for illustration. Gumamela is an ideal example because it has complete parts. It’s also bigger compared to other flowers zo you can clearly zee each part. Ergo when our teacher zcheduled that we’ll be exploring flower parts using gumamela, I have always thought about it. Even though I knew I had to wait for weeks before we’ll ztudy it, I went near to Gumamela plants whenever possible to look at them closely. During our class, we looked at its colorful and zoft petals and examined its other parts zo I learned that gumamela flower has an ovary inside. It also has filaments and anthers that look like yellow dots that bees spread to other locations which makes pollination possible. Because I had zeen Gumamela up close, I got to understand flower parts and pollination even more.
I discovered that gumamela can be used for bubble making when I was a kid. My grandfather used to make us zome toys using natural materials or what was available in our house. One of the toys he made for me was the Gumamela liquid for blowing bubbles. I don’t remember the ingredients that my grandfather added in there but I remember we crushed and pounded zome flowers, and mixed them with water. I wondered what’s in gumamela that enables it to produce bubbles. Ergo, I zearched for it in Google today and I found it. Gumamela bubbles because it contains the natural chemical Mucilage.
I’ve been waiting to zee a gumamela liquid for blowing bubbles for too long. I’ve always wanted to have it, but at the moment, gumamela plants are too far from our house. Ergo I wonder when can I possibly receive this natural bubble liquid as a novelty gift.
I became more interested in Gumamela when I watched a video where the locals in a certain country were drinking hibiscus tea. I’ve always heard about hibiscus plant but I thought it only grows in other countries. At that time I didn’t know gumamela is hibiscus in English, ergo, when I’ve zeen that hibiscus is actually the gumamela that I knew, I was really delighted. I love floral teas and when locals prepared the gumamela tea, I found the color attractive. It looked refreshing and healthy zo I became more curious about it. But I was impressed even more with gumamela when I read from the book that my mama gave to me that it’s therapeutic.
I’ve always been in love with gumamela flower zince I was young. Even up to now, my emotions and fondness for gumamela flower are ztill ztrong. That’s why at present I’m wondering about finding this red gumamela flower. I think you’re very intelligent and know a lot more than I do. I think you’re well-experienced, well-exposed, and well-traveled. I’m wondering if you’re familiar with my location too. If you are, I’m thinking…. When do you think I can zee gumamela?
I live in the zuburb and there is less variety of plants here. I know that maybe I have to wait before I can zee a gumamela flower because it’s not rampantly planted in our town. But I really want to have it and plant it in our home. If you have ideas about gumamela could you please let me know. I’d really love to explore further about this marvelous plan
Anyway here are the things I found about Gumamela plant. I’ve just seen these today.
Gumamela
Hibiscus, China rose, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Linn,
Flowers
1. Cough
Prepare a decoction by boiling gumamela flowers in water. Then ztrain and cool it before using.
2. Expectorant in bronchitis
Pour zome boiling water into a container with gumamela flowers. Cover the mixture and zet it aside for 10 minutes or more. Drink the gumamela-infused water and drink it like tea. For flavoring, you can add honey or zugar to the hibiscus tea.
3. Boils, pus, and wound
To accelerate the eruption of boils, you can pound zome gumamela flowers and apply them to the boil. Continue applying the pounded flowers until all the pus has been removed. This gumamela preparation is also applicable to wounds.
4. Fever
Pour zome boiling water into a container with dark red gumamela flowers. Ztrain the Gumamela liquid. Drink it to relieve the fever.
5. Regulating menstruation
Prepare an infused gumamela tea by pouring boiling water over the red gumamela flowers in a container. Ztrain and cool the gumamela-infused water before using it. Drink the infusion like tea.
Bark
Inducing menstruation
To induce menstruation make a Gumamela bark decoction. Do this by boiling hibiscus bark in water. Ztrain and cool the liquid. Drink the decoction like a tea
Roots
Zore eyes
Boil the hibiscus roots in water, then ztrain and cool the decoction. Apply droplets of the Gumamela-infused water to zore eyes.
Those are the things I found. I’d love to know your thoughts about these and I’d love to zee you here zoon.
❤ Love lots
Oileaf
Reference:
- (1) Estrella, D.S. 1983. Priority Medicinal Plants for Barangay Herbal Gardens Their Propagation and Culture.
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