ANOTHER WONDERFUL PLANT - THE FIG TREE - FICUS

There is this fig tree growing in a sack in my mini-garden. 

To practise this discipline of agriculture, I rear a few chickens as well. I usually carry out experiments on healthy and very cost-effective means of crop farming and livestock production. So I test-feed the chickens with alternatives including leaves.

Of all the leaves in the garden, I have noticed that these chickens love eating these fig leaves like kilode?- What is happening 

So when there isn't something readily available to feed the chickens with, I cut these fig leaves pending the time. 

My curiosity as a scientist then drew me into researching onthis fig plant. 

What I am finding is somewhat staggering - there seems to be no end to the numerous vitality of plants that we normally overlook.

This plant from searches is definitely  Ficus - a Fig tree - likely Ficus   umbellata.

According to ScienceDirect, the parts of a Ficus plant are 

… anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-oxidant, anti-diabetic, anti-arthritic, anti-stress, anti-cancer, hepato-protective, neuro-protective and wound healing …

So it is used in traditional medicine to solve  women hormonal issues.

It is also said by researchers to have

 potential benefits for air purification.

 Most Ficus plants which can also be used as decorative house plants have anti-tumour properties and potential for stress reduction. So you may sit close by it if feeling stressed. 

 

 In traditional medicine, 

Ficus umbellata is said to be used  in treating  leukoderma, leprosy, wounds, oedema, respiratory problems, diarrhoea, sexually transmitted illnesses, tuberculosis, anaemia, epilepsy, rickets, dysentery, male infertility, and gonorrhoea. 

The benefits I find most interesting and currently tweaking my medulla oblongata is that it can be used for

air purification as the leaves can absorb harmful indoor chemicals like formaldehyde, ammonia, and benzene, purifying the air or at least reducing effects of air pollution.

SNEAK-PEAK INTO MY MEDULLA-OBLONGATA 

You see formaldehyde, ammonia, benzene, though somewhat harmful are used in processing/preserving of some foods for human consumption - so I am thinking that that there is possibility that this Ficus plant leaves might be useful one way or the other in eliminating the harmful effects of  such processed foods prepared with those substances...how? I am trying to think but the thoughts of how male chickens constantly  harass female chickens is confusing me.

But what is even my business with those harrassments  happening in Animal Republic?

Silencing the oppressed is acceptable ONLY in Animal Republic...

HARASSMENT IN ANIMAL REPUBLIC 

Animals often attempt to show superiority by constantly harassing  other animals  or exploit the other animals, taking advantage of them 

Silencing the oppressed is acceptable ONLY in Animal Republic...