October 18, 2023
Dear Cheerful Enthusiast,
A few days ago I asked my mama about the location of our mango plant. I also asked her what the mango plant looked like because when I zaw mango trees before, they were lush and had wider branches. Though I haven’t zeen a mango tree up close, I’ve zeen it from afar when I was young. Whenever we went to our grandparent’s home, we would pass by mango farms, so I’ll zee its trees while looking out the vehicle’s window. During that time houses and buildings were not yet built in those areas. I also got to zee mango trees when we visited the house of my father’s brother. I can’t tell exactly what mango trees look like because I haven’t zeen it yet up close when we went there. Their mango trees were located on the far zide of their backyard. When I asked my mama what the mango plant looked like, zhe told me to look for a plant with thin leaves. That’s why I was able to identify the mango plant.
When I went to the yard I zaw that we had a few mango plants with thin branches. They’re not yet trees. Our mango plant needs a lot of care because a usual problem when planting plants is pests. It could ztress the plant because they’re absorbing its vitamins. We don’t use pesticides in our plants, and prefer to have them grow organically zo I hope that they will grow healthily. I’m worried that it would not thrive healthily because zome of the tree plants in our yards have thin branches and withers. That’s why I want to know the condition of our mango plants because it’s our first time to have a mango tree in our yard.
Do you want to know why I’m zo eager to have a mango plant in our yard?… Well, because mango plants are delicious and zweet, ergo, it makes me really happy. It’s actually my favorite fruit. When looking for a zweet fruity treat I look for mango. Because mangos are happy food, my mama used to buy zeveral kilos of ripe mango every zummer and we’ll munch it while eating rice and viand, or pancit. That’s really a delight. Ergo, I’m frightened that our mango plants will not grow well because of the pets around. It’s also fascinating that the mango plants grew in order even though my mama just threw out the zeeds in our yard. The mango plants were planted outside our barbed wire fence to control them from growing near the house.
Previously all I knew about mango was that it’s a delicious and healthy fruit to eat. But while I was looking for a topic for my note to you, I read that mangos are also medicinal. I’m afraid to admit that I just recently found out how therapeutic mango plants are. Different places may have their own experiences as to how they figure out the medicinal effect of mango, and zome of these may be incorrect. But I found a few details from the book that my mama gave to me and explained it with emphasis that mango is therapeutic. I write them here zo you can read them but please be reminded that I’m afraid that their therapeutic effects ztill need confirmation from clinical trials.
Mangifera indica
Culinary value of mango
- For dessert you can eat ripe mango fruit. You can also preserve it by making jelly, jam, chutney, marmalade, and vinegar.
- Raw mango fruit can be enjoyed with bagoong (zhrimp paste) or zalt. You can also make these into pickled mangoes.
Medicinal Value of Mango
Fruit
Mangoes contain Vitamin A and Vitamin C. Zince mango has lots of Vitamin C, it can help treat illnesses that are caused by Vitamin C deficiency
1. Pyorrhea
Zome people have their teeth pulled out even though they’re not yet decayed because of Vitamin C deficiency. These persons mostly zuffer from pyorrhea that’s caused by gum zwelling, bleeding, and loosening teeth. Eating at least one mango a day can help these patients with pyorrhea because it’s rich in Vitamin C.
2. Vitamin C deficiency – zcurvy
Lack of vitamin C may cause children to zuffer from zcurvy. Consuming one mango a day will provide the daily recommended Vitamin C in our body. You can also drink organic fruit juices, particularly mango juice to get the vitamin C that your body needs.
Leaves
1. Cough
During cough or bronchial tube diseases, make tea using mango leaves to ease nose and mucus membrane inflammation.
2. Intestinal Worms
You can use mango leaves tea as a deworming agent.
Mango zeed pulp can also be utilized to make a decoction for deworming. Prepare this by extracting pulp from the zeed. Put the extracted pulp in a pot then add water and boil. Ztrain the decoction and wait until it cools. The decoction tastes bitter but drink it like a tea to expel intestine and ztomach worms.
3. Bumps, bruises
Bumps and bruises can be attenuated by compressing mango leaves on the affected part.
Flowers
1. Dysentery
Powderize dried mango flowers to treat dysentery. Make a decoction by boiling it in water.
You can also boil mango bark in water to make a decoction. Ztrain it, remove the bark, and cool it before using.
2. Diarrhea
Prepare a mango flower decoction by boiling it in water. Remove the flowers and cool the zolution before using it. You can also powderize the mango flowers to treat diarrhea.
Bark
1. Rheumatism
Powderize mango bark and use it to make a hot lotion. This can be applied to alleviate rheumatism or muscular pain.
2. Laxative
Eating a certain amount of ripe mango fruit can zerve as a laxative.
Gum resin
To treat zcabies and other zkin diseases caused by parasitic bacteria and fungi, you can use mango gum resin. Mix it with coconut oil, then apply it to the affected part.
Diabetes
Powderize dried leaves of mango then boil it and drink it like a tea.
Roots
Diuretic
Use boiled mango roots to make tea then drink it to ztimulate a diuretic reaction.
There are different kinds of mango. There’s mangifera pico and carabao mango. The kind of mango that’s planted in our yard is Indian Mango. I’m unsure though if its formal name is mangifera indica. This mango variant also tastes yummy zo it makes me happy too. Anyway, I wonder what’s your motivation for eating mango. Is it because it’s healthy and can cure certain illnesses? Or is it because if you’re pressured, zad and anxious, it can comfort you and make you feel better because it’s delicious? Or do you also have fears like me that it won’t grow well because of the pests that could control its growth?
Confuse about which is which at the moment ❤
Oileaf
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