Meaning
The leaf of the soursop tree, boiled into a bush tea widely drunk in Jamaica as a calming, sleep-inducing remedy and general tonic. Soursop leaf tea is a well-known home remedy taken in the evening to settle the nerves and help rest, and belief in its healthful and even medicinal power runs deep, quite apart from the soursop fruit itself, which is eaten and juiced.
Examples
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Drink soursop leaf tea fi help yuh sleep.
Drink soursop leaf tea to help you sleep.
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Mama boil soursop leaf every night.
Mum boils soursop leaf every night.
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Dem seh soursop leaf good fi di nerves.
They say soursop leaf is good for the nerves.
Origin
From 'soursop' (the fruit tree) + 'leaf'; a calming bush tea. See [[bush-tea]], [[cerasee]].
How it’s used
Soursop-tree leaf brewed as a calming, sleep tea. See [[bush-tea]], [[cerasee]].