A lot of Caribbeans are native to the America’s. We are not all from Africa some of us already existed in the America’s with our own practices(if you look back in ancestral history you will see this). We (Afrikaans & Indian Americans) are cousins
The bush medicine people are the people of the day. Two doctors told me they were not expecting me survive my surgeries. But thank God I came alive Began using herbs and found improvements.
I saw the trailer for this earlier and was eagerly looking forward to seeing the episode. The contributors were knowledgeable and very interesting, however I was really disappointed that many times instead of showing the plants that was being discussed the videographer focused on the speaker's face! Looking forward to Episode 2. Thank you.
In the American South, enslaved peoples marked graves with a purple flower that easily took root and grew as a ground cover. Long abandoned gravesites have been identified by these flowers that appear suddenly in a forrest. The connections to the Continent remained strong in our ancestors!
In Indonesia, especially Java island, we also plant that purple plant on the grave and also use it with other plant and flower for some ritual before bring the dead to the grave.
The draceana is a very special plant in Cameroon 🇨🇲 we use in death ceremonies funerals big significant ceremonies and to celebrate birth especially that of twins. The red one too is very common in the south west province of Cameroon
Thanks to the NCF. I enjoyed this educational video by the knowledgeable presenters. However, it would have been more helpful if the photographer panned to show the plant as it was being described.
This documentary is brilliant, insightful and inspiring! I learnt so much from this and I appreciate the production in creating this education clip. 💜 Much love from London UK 🇬🇧 ( mixed heritage: 🇮🇪🇹🇹🏴 ✊🏼)
A list of some of the herbs shared: Citrus limon Leucaena leucoephalam (White leadtree) Morinda citrifolia (Great Morinda) Ricinus communis (Castor bean) Argemone mexicana (Mexican prickly poppy) Petiveria allicacea (Guinea henweed) Ixora coccinea (Flame of the woods)
This is so informative. We strayed so far from our original structures. I love the Doctor retelling the Bajan tradition with the lime which is straight out of The Motherland. Also love the African seeing a plant which would kill the colonizers.
I am so grateful to the NCF for this series. There's so much information, so much knowledge to be gained. Unfortunately it was ruined by the videographer and the presenter. I am looking forward to seeing it done properly.
Quite stimulating really, thank you. It would be nice if the camera would give us close ups of the leaves , the fruit and the seeds so we can identify them. Thanks again !
I love it!! Thank you all so much for such fantastic, valuable information. I love studying about plants and I will watch this video more than once. Bless you. Namaste'
I thought it was I alone who recognize that the cameraman was not doing a good job so I could identify the smaller plants.i am from St.kitts and is very passionate about our indigenous plants and their uses. Was hoping to see if I could recognize the smaller plants in my trod around my area where I live
@@clauderichards3208 true. I would also like to know what is the name and use of the burgundy flower with the long leaves in the first part of the video . In Portland Jamaica I heard it called dragon blood .🇯🇲
Great video family watched today to learn some of the good plants but camera man needs to zoom on plants vs ppl faces and edit the video and add captions on screen with plants and benefits for ppl speaking fast. Everyone doesn’t get bajan dialect who will watch these on RU-vid.
This is excellent. However the camera should focus more on the plants as often we could not see what speaks were talking about. The Riley siblings made the books- "In your own backyard " prof made mention of this. Grannylove (aka) I do an information program on herbs etc. On community radio in the uk. Thanks to all of you. I am going to share.
It's amazing how much Barbadians have moved away from living and eating healthy and natural, for the carcinogenous, chemical laced, supermarket whithered ,package foods.
It comes from absorbing the white man culture. First religion, then education and now entertainment. Our children see McDonald's and Pizzas being advertised on tv so they want it. Then we allow these companies to sell us their strange food. We have to wake up.
The photographer did not focus on the plants for a long enough time, did not give closeups while the herbalists were commenting. Nonetheless I am happy to have had the opportunity to view the video.
We believe in plants to heal and have made videos on our Asosi Tea .. love this content and can’t wait to visit and highlight your country on our channel . Well done !
Nice . I am awaiting when you all start to research and touch on our indigenous peoples. Those who were here when the scouts ships came. I will subscribe and see hiw things develop. Keep the great work up!
As a Caribbean person growing up in England and returning to the Caribbean as a grown vegan woman, I felt very keenly, sadly, my lack and mis-education and the huge void of ignorance, that welled up inside me when I became a mother and I knew nothing but the darkness of my rich ancient, Afro-Caribbean heritage when it came to botanicals and the mystic use of the most common o' garden plants used in my own island and the diaspora in general. I thoroughly enjoyed watching and learning from the information shared in this video. However, I have one critical commentary and that is to do with the focus of the cameraman's lens being too much on the narrative characters, their appearance and attire, more than say a detailed closeup view of the actual plants and the top and underside of each leaf which was being described and discussed. 🌱
Wonderful show hoping to see more also for the doctor what is stopping us from making a tablet version of the papaya leaf extract for dengue fever. This could be the start of our pharmaceutical industry. Also regarding funding for your sector meetings why could we not get cooperating government's to approve a lottery that would fund herbal medicine development.
goodm thank you for waking up the caribbean people who keep sleeping with their history and love fake life keep teaching my sister i hope the youth learn from it and help make that change we need to enprove the life of our people from poverty and claim high unployment when we have a gold mine waiting todiscover herbs or bush for medicine i love it we were researching all ourlife and using herbs as tea and medicine from slavery to this day thank you god bless keep the earth and plant alive the rich resource the creator bless us with buenos dias adios
Greetings, new subscriber here. Wow, I did not know the tall tree is associated with Chango. I am an orisha practitioner , I have a tree that must be cut before it creates damage to surrounding area , as per my county …how would I pay homage to the tree / Chango before removing the tree..
You need to show close ups of the plants etc. For eg what you call Exora in Barbados I believe is called by some other name(s) in other Islands. There are names that even in an Island varies from community to community . There may be myriad reasons for that .eg. French influences or Dutch or just plain local names based on what was passed down by Ancestors. I still am unable to identify the Exora from the picture.( Not Banan.
Wauw this is a revelation, because in Europe they learn that the leaves are poison even if you touch it. I also learn that you can use the leave of castor leaves for wild growing meat on your body. Thank you for the information. I am gonna use it on my mother she is diabetic. Can you give some more information how to use it?
