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This morning I attended a Phoenix Landing educational event. The title was Plants, Perches and Pinecones. I would like to share a very small bit of the more unusual.
They are both in the houseplant catagory. The first one is the Neem tree, originally from India. It has antifungal, antiflammatory, antiviral, atioxidant, anticancer properties, and is a big booster of the immune system. You use the leaves, twigs and bark. The instructor gets organic neem leaves from the one and only place in the USA (neemtreefarm.com) in Fla. She makes a tea from the leaves and feeds this to all the parrots instead of plain water. It can be grown as a houseplant in temperate areas.
The second plant is the Aloe housplant. It was underlined in the handouts This is a plant that no parrot household should be without. It contains powerful joint pain relievers, antiiflammatory compounds, relieves itching, soothes the digestive tract, heals wounds or scrapes, kills e coli, fungus, very good for respiratory infections and the list goes on and on off what it kills in the way of bad bugs. She puts the plant close to the bird to eat for a while 1X per week.
Instructor emphasized that any plant or flower grown for a companion bird should be grown in organic soil so we do not introduce any toxins to the bird. (Makes me think of all the toxins that must be in the human body).
I wish I could give everyone the handouts.
http://neemtreefarms.com/
They are both in the houseplant catagory. The first one is the Neem tree, originally from India. It has antifungal, antiflammatory, antiviral, atioxidant, anticancer properties, and is a big booster of the immune system. You use the leaves, twigs and bark. The instructor gets organic neem leaves from the one and only place in the USA (neemtreefarm.com) in Fla. She makes a tea from the leaves and feeds this to all the parrots instead of plain water. It can be grown as a houseplant in temperate areas.
The second plant is the Aloe housplant. It was underlined in the handouts This is a plant that no parrot household should be without. It contains powerful joint pain relievers, antiiflammatory compounds, relieves itching, soothes the digestive tract, heals wounds or scrapes, kills e coli, fungus, very good for respiratory infections and the list goes on and on off what it kills in the way of bad bugs. She puts the plant close to the bird to eat for a while 1X per week.
Instructor emphasized that any plant or flower grown for a companion bird should be grown in organic soil so we do not introduce any toxins to the bird. (Makes me think of all the toxins that must be in the human body).
I wish I could give everyone the handouts.
http://neemtreefarms.com/
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