I am
one of the fortunate ones to have a hobby like mine that entails me
working in the environment I love and also to teach and learn an
incredible amount of information on bush medicine.  It has become so big
a hobby in my life that I have dedicated a portion of myself to the
study of plants and their medicinal values and for that I have turned to
oral and our ancestral studies. The beauty of this hobby of mine is
even though I am still a beginner. I can walk in almost anyone's
backyard and tell a story about a plant and today I am in a friend's
yard to tell you about this one and its medicinal values.

This encounter is none other than "Match me if you can" "Acalypha
wilkesina"  or "Jacobs Coat". This plant is used more as an ornamental
plant nowadays than...