By Our Correspondent
BLACK JACK (Bidens pilosa) Nyabarashana in Runyankole
This is a common plant and is often looked at as a weed, but today I believe you will be happy when you come across it. It has benefits to both chicken and human beings because each one of us requires a healthy living.
Black Jack is an antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiparasitic and anticancer herb. That alone explains why you need to look for this plant.
1. Benefits to Chickens
2. Benefits To Humans
How To Use
Get a handful of fresh leaves.
Wash well.
Cut and put in a pot, add a cup of clean water.
Boil for 10 minutes.
Sieve and drink the soup.
Back in the days in Ankole, even when the farmers had less health knowledge they would use black jack to help them to heal fresh cuts as it fastest stopped bleeding.
This knowledge was robbed by capitalists who introduced Paraquat, a chemical, or weed killer that is highly toxic and used all the world to destroy the weed. Yet God created the black jack for this important purpose; it is not weed as the capitalists hoodwinked many.
Black jack, we are informed, cures COVID-19. Its medicinal elements help destroy the vengeance acts of coronavirus also known as COVID-19.