The COVID-19 curve in Brazil has flattened in many states. Some experts are calling it herd immunity, but they reality may be that Brazilians have learned to fight back with nature’s weapons.
I had read about the potency of lemon grass tea against the coronavirus. When I first arrived in Brazil, my landlady drove me around the block to show me a special plant which had proven effective against coronavirus in Brazil. Turns out this plant was the same lemon grass.
During my stay in Brazil during the month of September, 2020, I experienced some of the symptoms consistent with COVID-19. I didn’t go to the hospital – something which many may say would have been the right thing to do. Instead, I self-isolated and stepped up the use of home/herbal remedies.
While going to the hospital and getting tested is the right thing to do in most people’s opinion, it is not in my opinion. First of all, the Medical System has no safe and proven cure for COVID-19 – only experimental drugs with possibly harmful side effects. Second, they lock you away from all the things you need to recover: sunlight, your kitchen and herbs, your family, your exercise routine etc. Further, they push that horrible stick to the back of your nose – for whatever reasons – and with the possibility of turning up a misdiagnosis. In my opinion, you have a greater chance dying from coronavirus in the hospital than on your own.
I called the taxi driver and asked him if he could purchase some lemon grass and bring it to my apartment. He said there was a woman selling lemon grass plants in pots. So I asked him to buy one and bring it over by my apartment. He did. It wasn’t that expensive. After boiling the leaves and making lemon grass tea and drinking it, I started feeling better almost instantly. Within a week, I was fully recovered. The truth is, I’ll never know for sure whether I had coronavirus or not. And who cares?
