Do you know apart from propagating new plants, seeds have other uses such as in making of medicines, beauty products and nutritious edibles?
Before you protest that constant usage of seeds would pose challenges to getting seeds for propagation - wait! Have you ever wondered why most naturally grown fruits each have so many seeds?
God, the Creator is a very intelligent being- having created seeds to have so many uses (though not yet fully discovered), hence He made most fruits to have many seeds. So no worries about having enough seeds for propagation.
Even fruits like avocado that have only one seed have so very many fruits emerging seasonally on each tree, so seeds needed for propagation would always be available even when seeds are massively utilised.
But the plants from which the seeds are taken have to be naturally-grown for the full potentials to be realised. Pure-bred seeds are your best bet when it comes to using seeds for health or beauty purposes.
I will just give very few examples now - most, if not all pure-bred seeds remove toxins including viruses from the body. So they are potentially good for detoxifying the body. I have used the seeds of snake tomatoes for instance as body worm expeller- highly effective. But please do not attempt to just use anything arbitrarily for health treatment. It takes a whole lot of studying and researches to be sure.
Knowing the right dosage also very important so as not to cause harm to the body. So let the researchers do the due diligence and come out with details after enough researches have been conducted.
This information is to sensitise growers of plants especially small producers who likely grow organic crops to stop throwing excess seeds away and start preserving as many seeds as they can after separating the ones for planting. I believe some day there will be a seed bank for pure-bred seeds when the researches are tested and firmly proven.
As per edibles, some seeds are good as spices for seasoning food, some as beverage. For instance date seeds can be blended into powder and taken as alternative to coffee.
Some seeds are usable in beauty therapy - avocado seeds have health uses but also very useful in production of beauty products.
I use avocado seed as one of the ingredients in the skin care products I have been developing and which I have been using for over two years - I no longer buy body lotions or creams. It was a health-motivated decision to remedy skin problems.
I also include it in my hair wash especially as I no longer use relaxer on my hair so I have to naturally treat my hair for it to be manageable.
I have started stockpiling some seeds especially those ones I am certain are pure-bred because I grow the plants.
Part of my aim at growing plants when I get to farm on a much bigger space is to ensure the seeds are safeguarded to preserve and maximise their potentials for health, beauty and edibles
OTHER GIST
There are so many things I need to accomplish in the course of the day. Since most of what I do are still in research stages, costs have to be kept as low as possible. So I have to do as much as I can within a period- this 50year old body is serving me so very well.
There are certain tasks I would be convinced I couldn't handle but when I attempt most of them, even I get shocked that I could do them. This body only demand is that I take good care of it - one of which is feed it well -more of qualitatively than quantitatively . So after doing some very heavy tasks towards last weekend, my body felt sore . But I was still able to do some tasks. I needed to reward the body so I had to make soft drinks - remember - pawpaw leaves, lemon grass, mint leaves from my garden and any juicy fruit available.
I try to make at least a bottle of this in a week to sip.
This morning, after having fruit and tea for breakfast, I felt revitalised but light enough to do some gardening work.
In order not to get one of those hunger atracks/hunger slap, I got snake tomatoes in the premises, harvested the seeds for drying and storage. I used the paste in making local jollof rice with chilli pepper and garden herbs with shawa fish - This simple, humble but power-packed meal is to reward this over-worked body. Its not every time one must feed the body with swallow food like pounded yam or fufu after heavy work in the farm, garden or processing.
There are lighter alternatives with same nutrients to replenish the body after physically- tasking work - the lighter alternative hopefully would do better in helping my brain in reading, studying and writing today.
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