Meaning
A common wild shrub used in Jamaican bush medicine, its leaves brewed into a tea for colds, fever, coughs, and cleansing the system. A staple of the home bush-tea cabinet, 'jack inna bush' grows freely on roadsides and in yards and is one of the go-to remedies of country folk medicine.
Examples
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Bwile jack-inna-bush fi di fever.
Boil jack-in-the-bush for the fever.
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Di bush grow wild pon di roadside.
The bush grows wild on the roadside.
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Jack-inna-bush tea good fi cold.
Jack-in-the-bush tea is good for a cold.
Origin
A Jamaican folk name (Chromolaena odorata / related) for a wild medicinal shrub. See [[bush-tea]], [[cerasee]].
How it’s used
A medicinal bush-tea shrub for colds and fever. See [[cerasee]], [[ram-goat-dash-along]], [[search-mi-heart]].