I ngā tau tata nei, kua kite te ao i te piki haere o te hiahia ki ngā rongoā rerekē me ngā rongoā taiao. I roto i ngā tipu maha e tūhuratia ana mō ō rātou painga hauora, kua puta ake ngā rau boldo hei ia hou i roto i te ao whakaora taiao.

Ko te Boldo, e mōhiotia whānuitia ana ko Peumus boldus, he rakau iti matomato nō Chile, ā, e kitea whānuitia ana i ngā rohe mahana o Amerika ki te Tonga. Kua roa nei te whakamahinga o ōna rau kakariki pouri e ngā hapori taketake mō ōna āhuatanga rongoā, ā, kei te rongonui haere i te mākete o te ao mō ōna hua hauora maha.

"Kei te piki haere tonu te hiahia mō ngā hua taiao me ngā hua rauropi, ā, ko ngā rau boldo kei mua i tēnei ia," te kī a Tākuta Maria Serrano, he tohunga otaota rongonui kei Santiago, Chile. "Me ngā āhuatanga ārai-mumura, whakaheke toto, me te nakunaku, he maha ngā painga hauora o ngā rau boldo e uaua ana ki te kitea i roto i ētahi atu rongoā taiao."

Ko tētahi o ngā painga nui o ngā rau boldo ko tōna whai huatanga ki te rongoā i ngā mate mimi (UTI). Kua whakaatuhia e ngā rangahau ka taea e ngā matū hohe o roto i ngā rau boldo te āwhina ki te whawhai i ngā huakita e kawe ana i ngā UTI, ā, he rongoā taiao rongonui tēnei mō te hunga e rapu ana i ētahi atu maimoatanga mō ēnei āhuatanga.

Hei tāpiri, ko ngā āhuatanga diuretic o te rau he mea pai mō te hunga e hiahia ana ki te pupuri i te taurite wai hauora i roto i te tinana, ki te whakamamae rānei i ngā tohu e pā ana ki te pupuri wai, pērā i te pupuhi me te pupuhi.

"Kua roa ngā rau Boldo e whakamahia ana hei rongoā tuku iho," te whakamārama a Tākuta Gabriela Sanchez, Kaiwhakahaere o te Chilean Center for Ethnobotanical Research. "Ināianei, kei te harikoa mātou ki te kite i tō rātou pūmanawa e mōhiotia ana i te taumata o te ao."

I te mea ka nui haere te aro o te tangata ki tō rātou hauora me te oranga tinana, e matapaetia ana ka piki haere te rongonui o ngā rau boldo hei whakakapinga taiao mō ngā rongoā. Nā te huinga ahurei o ngā painga hauora me te iti o ngā pānga taha, ka tukuna he huarahi haumaru ake, he huarahi pumau ake hoki ki te whakahaere i ngā mate noa.

Mō ngā kaihoko e hiahia ana ki te whakauru i ngā rau boldo ki roto i ā rātou mahi o ia rā, ki te ako atu rānei mō tēnei tipu whakamīharo, he maha ngā kaihokohoko ipurangi rongonui e tuku ana i ngā paura rau boldo kounga teitei, ngā tī, me ngā tāpiringa.

I te haere tonu o ngā rangahau ki te hura i ngā whakamahinga me ngā painga hou o ngā rau boldo, kotahi te mea e mārama ana - kua rite tēnei tipu whakamiharo ki te noho hei kaitākaro matua i te ao o ngā rongoā taiao me te rongoā rerekē.

Mena kei te hiahia koe ki te mōhio atu mō tēnei hua, tēnā whakapā mai ki tā mātou kamupene.