We lived in a rural community, unlike in the city area, the land here is quite rich with nutrients which are perfect especially for planting various plants. Our backyard now was full of plants, it so good to look at how the plants grow and aside from their beauty, some of them have distinct uses and benefits.
Many traditional plants are most likely powerful than the drugs that we are taking. One of these is the Mayana plant.
What is Mayana Plant?
I featured this before in one of my photography articles.
Mayana is an herb that is usually cultivated as an ornament. Its leaves look like “Acer rubrum leaves”, which are notched or colored with mostly purple. Some leaf colors are yellow, green, red, pink, and sometimes blue but the most common one is purple. Its leaves give mayana its attractive and impressive colors giving people the likeness to display varieties of them in their houses, and we're one of them.
This is our planted Mayana or Coleus Blumei, with its other names, Lampuyana, Dafronaya, Tampunaya, Daponaya, Painted Nettle, it looks so lovely with a complexion of purple and green. Aside from its beauty, it has wonderful uses and benefits especially in terms of health.
Mayana grows fast and healthy in humid places. They don't like prolonged exposure to sunlight as their leaves dry up. A little bit of sunlight exposure in the morning can make their color more contrast and brightness. And a morning and evening sprinkling of water is enough for them to grow nicely and beautifully.
How to grow Mayana Plant?
If you are new to gardening, the Mayana plant is a great plant, to begin with. You can easily grow them and if you're lucky enough, you can ask your neighbors and friends if they have this plant, to cut some stem of it to plant. Some varieties can withstand the hot sun while others prefer part-shade. They tend to propagate more effectively in moist soils. It can also be planted from seeds but its best to propagate from cuttings.
Health Benefits and Medicinal Uses of Mayana
The unique and beautiful color of its leaves make this plant often used as an ornamental flower, nonetheless, mayana leaves is a medicinal plant that can handle numerous kinds of ailments such as ulcers, to serious illnesses such as diabetes and hemorrhoids. This plant is one of the traditionally used folkloric medicine and is primarily used for pain, sore, swelling, and cuts too.
And in other instances as an adjunct medication for delayed menstruation and diarrhea. These traditional uses of mayana are scientifically supported by studies here and abroad.
Common Medicinal Uses & Preparation
1. Cough: Infusion – Put fresh, clean leaves into a pitcher of water and use as drinking water every day.
2. Headache: Use a mortar and pestle and pound the leaves and extract its juice. Gently wipe the juice to the affected area to provide a cooling effect to the head and relieve a headache.
3. Bruises and Swelling: Gently press the leaves to reveal a small amount of juice and put it on top of the bruised or swollen area.
4. Anti-inflammatory: Infusion – Use the same process as you did with the cough remedy. Take the Mayana infusion as a substitute for your water daily.
5. Anti-oxidant: Mayana leaves contain special phytochemicals that help fight and eliminate free radicals that invade our bodies. Drink Mayana herbal plant as infusion similar to the cough and anti-inflammatory remedy.
Infusion is the process of extracting chemical compounds or flavors from plant material in a solvent such as water, oil, or alcohol, by allowing the material to remain suspended in the solvent over time (a process often called steeping). - Wikipedia.
Here are some proven benefits of Mayana plants according to Science:
Helps to Treat Hemorrhoids
Helps Treat Boils/Ulcer
Helps to Heal and Lowers Fever Heat
Curing and Relieve Symptoms of Cough
Good When Menstruation
Treating Diabetes
Stomach Pain and Heartburn Drugs
As the Red Eye Drug
As cough and cold medicines
Treating ulcerative lesions
To clean the blood on the last day of menstruation
Inflammation Ear Drops Drug
Drug Whitish
Overcoming Worms Bracelet
Enteritis
Treats Dyspepsia
Mayana for Glaucoma
Here is a video for some facts about Mayana Plant:
Nature is wonderful if you're just hardworking enough and have the likeness in discovering about the plants in this world, you'll find out that plants are naturally made for us humans, for our health and other purposes and uses in our lives.
Just like this Mayana plant, who would ever think, that these beautiful ornaments have lots of medicinal uses and health benefits?
In times today, where drugs and medicines are so expensive, it is best to plant some medicinal plants in your backyard, just like this Mayana.
Plant some now, its beauty will not only give your home a great look but it gives you other useful benefits that you will never regret.
All Photos are mine. 📸Sources:
https://www.drfarrahmd.com/2018/06/the-healing-properties-of-mayana.html?m=1
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You covered it so good.. Nice work