FUNNY CULTURAL BELIEFS: THE SALT THERAPY, WITH AN AFRICAN FOLK TALE SONG YOU LL LOVE.

It is a beautiful thing to often consider our cultural heritage this week and how it can be either adopted of discontinued with reasons.

Tradition and culture of a people is their way of life which can be dated back to time, it was how they survived, things to learnt to do that worked for their fathers and probably yielded results as time went by.

It is not always wrong, because if we discontinue all our cultures because of civilization, we will loose our origin in the name of civilization. Rather would be better if our focus can be aligned to using civilization to better our own traditional and archive them for generations to come before pushing it off the air.

A lot of the new generation do not even know the tenets of their culture and tradition and this is absurd to the African in us. Let's keep the good culture and abolish the evil but still let it be remember so we don't rattle back into it.

Today I made a video joking about a health trick our Mothers thought us back then, THE ALMIGHTY SALT THERAPY.

The salt is know to have a very strong curative "tendencies" in my Land, the igbos have used it to treat wounds, stomach pain and even as an antibiotics. The most shocking one is if pepper enters your eyes, our mothers will ask us to put a pinch of salt in our mouth and like magic, the pain in the eye disappears. How is that even possible.

I have often theorized this to be an override effect of the facial nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve and the opthalmic nerves, these are big names but they are all jus three of the 12 cranial nerves which only supplies the face, tongue, and part of the eye, this override on the operates when we take the salt, it deactivates one other and the pain is gone. I would love further studies about it.

Do you also have something similar about the salt, please share, I would love to know if I m not alone, and you probably join me in my research hehehe.

At the end of the video is a folk song which had been on my mind for a long time. It's about trading the wrong things for the wrong reasons, a story of a woman called Olurombi, who avowed her child to a an iroko tree if she was given one, out of desperation of getting a child, she eventual got a child called Aponbepore, who was the most beautiful girl in the land, but she forgot to return the child to the tree gods. One day they came to her, took the child from her and sang this song.

Please enjoy it

Yoruba
Onikaluku jeje ewure ewure ewure
Onikaluku jeje aguntan aguntan bolojo
Olurombi jeje Omo, omore aponbiepo
Olurombi o, gboingboin, iroko gboin gboin

Eng

Everyone promised a goat
A goat a goat.
Everyother person, promised a sheep a sheep a sheep
Olurombi promised her child, her child Aponbiepo
Olurombi o, gboingboin iroko gboin gboin

Thanks for reading and thanks for watching.🙏