{"id":2224,"date":"2022-07-04T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2022-07-04T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T00:20:00","slug":"what-is-bush-medicine-a-dive-into-this-traditional-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2224","title":{"rendered":"What Is Bush Medicine? A Dive Into This Traditional Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>n my home country of Trinidad and Tobago, traditional medicine \u2014 specifically bush medicine \u2014 is a time-honored cultural practice. Even with the emergence and dominance of conventional medicine, bush medicine continues to thrive in some communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBush medicine\u201d is the colloquial term for traditional plant medicine in the Caribbean region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plants with medicinal properties are used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including the common cold, coughs, kidney stones, diabetes, and even cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These plants are often found on uncultivated lands \u2014 hence, use of the word \u201cbush\u201d \u2014 or are grown in home gardens. In some instances, they are also used to season and flavor food during cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/bush-medicine\">Healthline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n my home country of Trinidad and Tobago, traditional medicine \u2014 specifically bush medicine \u2014 is a time-honored cultural practice.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}