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Friday 23 February 2024

Lessons from our elders:

Plants and fruits for medicinal use (part 2)

fruits, passed down from ter until it starts to sprout. need enough time to fully
our elders through genera- Then you may plant it in the ripen before harvesting,
tions. This week, we present ground. Sweet potatoes otherwise you might end
two more uses of fruits and need plenty of water to up with bitter seeds. Pome-
plants for medicinal use. grow, especially in the first granate trees are also very
week in the ground. It was easy to plant. In essence,
Sweet potato said that once you start to if you just throw the seeds
According to our elders, notice the ground crack on the ground, they could
sweet potato is mostly use- underneath the flowers, it is grow into a tree.
ful for low blood pressure. time to harvest. This should
People who suffer from low happen around month 3. In terms of medicinal use,
blood pressure were ad- pomegranate skins are
vised to eat sweet potato 2 Pomegranate said to have a few benefits
to 3 times a week. Howev- Pomegranates are also for our health. According
er, if you have high blood one of the easier fruits to to customs, pomegranate
pressure, it is best not to eat plant and harvest. Origi- skin tea can help those that
too much sweet potato, as nated from Persia, this suffer from diarrhea. Dried
this raises blood pressure. plant can grow almost ev- pomegranate skin tea is
Sweet potatoes are also erywhere. In Aruba, there also good for people who
great for people who work are many homes that have have worms. Pomegranate
hard labor jobs, and it’s a tiny or big pomegranate flowers can be boiled to
been said to be aid blood tree. You may be wonder- make a drink and this can
circulation in the body, ing what the difference is be used for irritated gums;
as well as help those with between a small and big just take a swig and let the
hemorrhoids or diarrhea. pomegranate tree, for tea sit in your mouth for a
which the answer is based couple minutes.
Many of our elders opted to on harvest time. Tiny trees
plant sweet potatoes them- produce tinier pomegran- Source: Remedi i Kustum-
selves, mostly because of ates that can be harvest- ber di nos Bieunan (Medi-
how easy it was to do so. ed early on. Contrarily, cine and Customs of our
(Oranjestad)—In last with our readers some me- Cut the end of a sweet po- big trees produce bigger Elderly) by Dinah Veeris
week’s edition, we shared dicinal use for plants and tato let it sit in shallow wa- pomegranates, but they

Aruba Tourism Authority honors loyal visitors at Costa Linda Beach

Resort!

The Aruba Tourism Author- are as follows: da Beach Resort bestowed “Watching the sunset over would like to express our
ity recently had the great Distinguished Visitor the certificateto the honor- the ocean” sincere gratitude and ap-
pleasure of recognizing (10>years consecutively ees, presented them with preciation to the honorees
Goodwill Ambassadors of visiting Aruba) memorable gifts, and also On behalf of the Aruba for their continued visits to
Aruba. These Ambassa- Goodwill Ambassador thanked them for choosing Tourism Authority, we the “One Happy Island”.
dorswere respectively hon- (20>years consecutively Aruba as their best-loved
ored with a certificate ac- visiting Aruba) vacation destination, as
knowledging their years of Emerald Ambassador their homeawayfromhome.
visits, loyalty, and love for (35>years consecutively
the island of Aruba. visiting Aruba) Top reasons for returning
to Aruba provided by the
The honor certification is The honorees were: honorees were:
presented on behalf of the Goodwill Ambassadors Mr. The Costa Linda Beach
Minister of Tourism as a to- George & Mrs. Eloise Le- Resort & Aruba’s beautiful
ken of appreciation and upold from New Jersey, beaches
to say “Masha Danki” to United States “The friends we have made
guests who have visited over the years that have
Aruba 10, 20, or 35 years or Ms. Marouska Heyliger rep- become like family to us”
more consecutively. resenting the Aruba Tour- Costa Linda’s wonderful
ism Authority, and staff staff
The three honoring levels members of the Costa Lin- Aruba’s restaurants