07/12/2020
Ti plant
It’s interesting to note that the ti plant originated in eastern Asia and the Polynesian Islands. It has deep cultural roots in Hawaii, where it’s known as ki and is planted around homes to bring good luck and ward off evil spirits. The plant’s leaves are also used for thatching, rain gear, clothing, wrapping for food and fodder for livestock, and the roots for food and beverages.
Traditional uses and benefits of Goodluck Plant
In Hawaiian traditional medicine, Ki flowers are combined with other herbal preparations for treatment of nasal growth, for shortness of breath/asthma, for phlegm in the chest and for vomiting.
Ki leaves are wrapped about the head and chest for fever with absence of perspiration.
Ki leaves are used as healing apparatus, not as medicines themselves: they were wrapped around warm stones to serve as hot packs, used in poultices and applied to fevered brows.
Hot leaf infusion was used to induce abortion in Hawaii.
Ti plant is used for fever, headache and diarrhea in Polynesia and Thailand.
It is also used as disinfectant for wounds in tropical West Africa.
This species is a stimulant and magic plant used to stimulate fierceness of young warriors in New Guinea.
Leaf heart and stem have been reported to be efficacious for abortion in Fiji.
Leaves are used as abortifacient in New Caledonia and Vanuatu and as a contraceptive in New Guinea.
Ti plant is used in a menstrual ceremony in Buka, the Solomon Islands.
It is used for Haemoptysis due to pulmonary tuberculosis, premature abortion, excessive menstruation and blood in urine, bleeding due to piles, enteritis-bacillary dysentery and rheumatic bone pains and swelling pain due to sprains in Philippines.
Heated oiled leaves had been recommended as application to the abdomen for ague and the medicinal bath of the roots prescribed for the same ailment in Peninsula Malaysia.
Leaves and ashes of leaves had been used in various preparations to treat small pox, madness, skin eruptions and joint pains.
Leaf prescription, alone and combined with Lasia, had been used for treating coughs.
Plant’s five parts are stewed with sugar and taken to restore regular menstruation.
Boiled, mixed with the water from boiling kazun-ywet leaves with sugar, and taken daily for lung ailments; or crushed for juice, which is mixed with ginger and jaggery syrup in equal parts to make a tonic taken by women to treat menopausal symptoms, clear the complexion, and for stamina and overall health.
Leaves of the plant, an astringent with cooling properties, are boiled in water and taken for vomiting of blood, passing of blood, and hemorrhaging.
To regulate the bowels, the leaves are stewed with sugar and ingested, or water from boiling the roots is taken.
For intestinal and liver inflammation, the leaves are stewed with jaggery.
Tender young leaves are eaten as a remedy for dysentery or as a bowel regulator.
Boiled with human milk, the leaves are taken for lung, liver, and kidney infections.
For chest pains, leaves are boiled with cow’s milk.
As treatment for nosebleeds and sinusitis, the roots are made into a paste and inhaled.
Root paste is also used for wet and dry scabies, as well as for sores and cracks in the groin.
Mixed with a bit of salt, the root paste makes an ointment to heal tongue sores.
Rhizome is used in diarrhea and dysentery.
Rhizome is eaten with betel nut to cure diarrhea in India.
Source: https://ticotimes.net/2008/01/25/ti-plant-looks-good-brings-luck
https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/goodluck-plant/
(not my photo)
