Meaning
Herbal tea brewed from wild 'bush' — the leaves, roots, and barks of medicinal plants — and the cornerstone of Jamaican home remedy. There is a bush tea for everything: cerasee and dog-blood to clean the blood, fever grass for a cold, mint and ginger for the belly, leaf-of-life for the chest, and search-mi-heart to calm the nerves. Grandmothers pass down which bush cures what, and the first response to feeling unwell is often to 'bwile a bush tea'.
Examples
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Bwile a bush tea fi di cold.
Boil a bush tea for the cold.
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Every ailment have a bush tea fi it.
Every ailment has a bush tea for it.
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Granny know which bush fi which sickness.
Grandma knows which bush is for which illness.
Origin
From 'bush' (wild medicinal plants) + 'tea'; herbal home-remedy tea. Note: in JA 'tea' means any hot morning drink. See [[cerasee]], [[fever-grass]].
How it’s used
Herbal home-remedy tea from medicinal bush; the first response to illness. See [[cerasee]], [[fever-grass]], [[leaf-of-life]].