Sweet Potato Greens Cured For Dengue?

Here is an email circulating the internet about how sweet potato cured Dengue.

Speak Out: Cure for Dengue?
By Bernardo Rocha Calibo
Director, NAPOL COM7

There is hope that the Dengue scourge will be obliterated. I was in the meeting in Manila (capital of Philippines) recently with other NAPOLCOM officials. While waiting for my flight back to Cebu (city in Visaya region of Philippines), I happened to talk with friends. The conversation eventually turned to Dengue. Some of their statements shocked me. I called up the persons concerned and they confirmed these revelations.

Computer technician Wenceslo Salesale Jr., 27, was downed by Dengue. His platelet count plunged from 180 to 80. He was rushed by ambulance from Novaliches to Manila. Inside the ambulance, a relative, acting upon the advice of a missionary priest, made him drink soup made from Camote (sweet potato) tops (young greens). The following day, his platelet count became normal.

The 7-year-old daughter of engineers Mar and Lita Buglongan of Kaloocan City. Her platelet count read 80. The same treatment was used. The 15-year-old daughter of businessman Nepomuceno Salaga of Sampaloc Manila, had the same platelet of 80 due to Dengue. The same treatment was used and both back to normal the following day.

I asked a doctor of medicine about herbal cures and he said that many, if not most, medicines comes from plants. He also said that under the Hippocratic oath, doctors are bound to encourage anything that can cure a patient.

We need not do research deep in the rainforest's of the Amazon or venture into the ocean depths in search of the elusive cure for Dengue. It is right there in our backyard. (Well it can be if you plant your own vegetables.)

The following information is from Wikipedia:

"In 1992, the Center for Science in the Public Interest compared the nutritional value of sweet potato to other vegetables. Considering fiber content, complex carbohydrates, protein, vitamins A and C, iron and calcium, the sweet potato ranked highest in nutritional value. According to these criteria, sweet potatoes earned 184 points, 100 points over the next on the list, the common potato (NCSPC)."

"Sweet potato tops (or greens) are excellent sources of antioxidative coompounds, mainly polyphenolics, which may protect the human body from oxidative stress that is associated with many diseases including cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Sweet potato greens have the highest content of total polyphenolics among other commercial vegetables studied."

"Sweet potatoes contains protein, dietary fiber, lipid, and essential minerals and nutrients such as calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, sodium, potassium, sulfur, iron, copper, zinc, manganese, aluminum, and boron. Sweet potatoes are also important source of vitamin A, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and ascorbic acid."

In the case of Salaga, he bought 5 sheaves/bunches (bugkos/bigkis) of sweet potato greens. Each sheaves consist of 12 cuttings and each one measures about one foot. A sheaves costs about P5 (Philippine currency).

The greens are boiled in water to extract the juice. The boiling last for about five minutes. A little salt is used to give flavor. Patient with Dengue is made to drink slowly and gradually. The body's immunity system is thus revived, making Dengue helpless against the body's natural defenses. Sweet potato greens enable the body to heal itself.

Now you know why I said earlier that my friends' revelations shocked me. They were shocking because people are needlessly dying all around us from Dengue, while they're very cure is also all around us.

In the past, many were fond of using the derogatory statement, "Go home and plant Camote (tagalog name for sweet potato)." Now, Camote is big news. It can save lives. So, to strengthen your family against Dengue, "Go home and plant Camote!"

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Like I said, I got this as a forward email from my cousin. You don't have anything to lose if this doesn't do anything for you. Plus, remember all the vitamins and mineral sweet potatoes brings you. And don't forget about eating the green too, just make sure when you boil it drink the water too.