HOG PLUM HEALTH BENEFITS WILL BLOW YOUR MIND! -Chewed, Juiced, Pickled or Stewed — It's nutritious to the last tasty drop!

VOL.2. NO. 6, February 7, 2024. INSIDE:.. Plants as medicine - Florida Nature Adventures, MEDITATION MUSIC!

NAUTIC GARDENER’S NOTES … HOG PLUM HEALTH BENEFITS WILL BLOW YOUR MIND! Chewed, Juiced, Pickled or Stewed — It’s nutritious to the last drop!

By Norris R. McDonald, Respiratory Therapist, Horticulturalist, NAUTIC GARDENS

Hog Plum tree (spondias mombin) is highly regarded as one of the many traditional medicinal plants that Mother Nature provided for us. They can be eaten naturally, cooked or stewed to make jams, curried, preserved or peeled and blended to make a very tasty juice. The young leaves can also be used to make GREEN SMOOTHIES!

There are over 140 different varieties of hog plums. The fruit will bear between January and May. You can then begin to enjoy all the great MIND BLOWING HEALTH benefits that will we discussed below.

But, apart from its value as a fruit tree, it has tremendous, mind blowing, health benefits!

MIND BLOWING HEALTH BENEFITS

Hog plums have many beneficial properties that, in traditional medicine, is said, may cure and, or, alleviate many illnesses.

Plums are a good source of potassium that the body requires to help reduce the likelihood of dangerous cardiovascular diseases such as “high blood pressure, stroke, or heart disease.”

Do you know that the hog plum fruit, leaves and bark are said to contain antimicrobial agents and anti-inflammatories?

It is amazing to know that people reportedly used hog plum bark in an attempt to cure gonorrhea!

We will now dive deeper into the many wonderful health benefits of the hog plum plant below!