The Soup Queen

Senduduk putih  I was visiting a friend's garden in Balik Pulau when his father pointed to this shrub with fragrant white flowers. He said it was full of medicinal properties but he didn't know what it was called. And the flowers could be infused as a tea to reduce high blood pressure. I was intrigued as I always am whenever I find out about a new plant. I couldn't stop researching and finally I found out the name of this plant. It's called senduduk putih (Melastoma decemfidum). Now what does this plant do? Actually plenty. The flowers are used to heal persistent coughing. It is also believed that its flowers can help children with slow speech development. Its leaves can be pounded and mixed with fresh turmeric to cure diarrhoea and bloody stool. According to this website : The leaf and root extracts are used to treat diarrhoea, dysentery, epilepsy and rheumatism. Shoots are ingested to treat puerperal infections, high blood pressure and diabetes while j...

UPDATE, June 2024: Nic is no longer with PVH. He was teaching as well as practising this and eventually came to found his own group called Mudita Circle. I chose not to delete this post and instead update this with this announcement as people may wish to know how he started his spiritual path. He learned PVH in 2016 (and even I learned it) but he has since evolved in his understanding of spirituality throughout these 8 years of helping many people with all kinds of medical and spiritual/soul/metaphysical problems.  His consultations last anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours with each person because he believes deeply that until one gets to the root cause, the illness is never healed completely. Once he detects and goes deep into the individual's root cause by his gift of "spiritual auditing", and the individual willingly does what he is advised to, the illness or problem disappears for good.  Some root causes are physical, some are caused by souls and some by karmic pasts. And...