Bitter leaf with botanical name Vernonia amygdalina is a vegetable used for preparing the popular bitter leaf soup.


It is also known as Onugbu by Igbos, Shiwaka by Hausas and Ewuro by Yorubas in Nigeria. Although this plant has been around for hundreds of years, only a few people know of its medicinal and healing properties.

Bitter leaf as the name implies, is actually a bitter plant whose leaves, extracts, stems and barks are used for culinary, medicinal and curative purposes.

Vitamins in Bitter leaf includes; vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin B1 and vitamin B2. Apart from using it for cooking, bitter leaf is rarely used for any other thing because people are unaware of its miraculous health benefits, which includes:

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