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I am Eric from Sarawak , Asia. In 1997  I went to Malaysia for the Baha'i volunteers service. I went to the villages far from town, some places I need to walk for one day , there was no main road. I travelled by motorcycles or walking through the jungle for 3 to 4 hours. Some place even took 1 day journey in the jungle. I went there for three months at one village  teaching villagers, the native of Malaysia to read and write. Then I move to other village again.Here were far from civilization, no tape water, electricity and road. House were scatter quite far from each others.

About 4 years I have been staying in the deep jungle with little proper food, sometime we survie on topica and jungle food and fruits. I had been attacked by malaria, 2 times I was suffering a very cold and hot attack by malaria and was admitted to hospital for 6 days once. The virus attack the head and the liver. Somtime very cold and somtime very hot. And I shiver for 1 hour and can hear the bed shaking.

During my life in the native,  one day I had a tootchache and hardly get any medicine. Then one native boy gave me a plant and asked me to chew it in the mouth. I hardly believed it but I put  in my mouth to chew, suddenly a hot taste and numb all around the mouth,  my pain stop. Thats great. Latter I found out in the net it is call Spilanthes Acmella, the toothach  plant, also this plant have many medical value like a pain killer. When I came back I took back this plant and now I have quiet a number of this plant. Very easy to plant. It can be send out by post. But I didn't try planting with seed.

In 2004-2008 I went to Cambodia for Baha'i services, I design & built 6 schools in the villages in different provinces in Cambodia. I also visit the famous Angkor Wat in Seam Reap, Cambodia. I went to Thailand and Vietnam. If you're interest in seeing Cambodia, I can give you some guidelines. I also found another mirical plant here called Moringa, the tree of life. Moringa is very nutritious and contain vitamins and mineral. I used to take the young leaves and fried with eggs, very delicious. These leaves can even cure 300 disease.

When I came back from Cambodia I find out my friend Mr. Balan had started planting moringa and produce the leave into powder and pills for sale.  Now I also sell some moringa powder  to friend.

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Some useful herbs
I just upload some of the herbs and plant on my blog. Now I have collected about 11 herb plant on my blog. From time to time I will add more. All the plant photo are taken by me. You can view them at me blog http://herbnplant.blogspot.com Th...

Aother plant that we use often in our daily life.
Pandan is a type of tree that grows in tropical areas of Asia. Pandan leaves have a sweet, unique flavor that is commmonly used in Southeast-Asian countries to enhance both desserts and savory dishes. The leaves are long and bright green, and whe...

My new website about Tree of Life
I just make a offical new website about the tree of life. This tree is called Moringa Oleifera. While I was in Cambodia, the villages people took the young leaves and fried with eggs or mixing soups. The taste is very delicious. They told me have som...

A plant that we have to plant.
Few years ago  I found this plant called the toothache plant, very effective for tootache. Latter I know this plant is called Spilanthes Acmella. See picture of my profile. A wonderful "new" plant to add to your herbal repertoire, Spilanthes acmel...