Some years back, the little town of Igbo Ora, Oyo state, Nigeria came into limelight after it was discovered to be the 'twin capital of the world'. Hardly could one get to a household at Igbo Ora without seeing a set of twins. And what is the secret of this phenomenon? The natives revealed it is their diet! The indigenes believe that a kind of okra leaves, locally known as ewe ilasa, is capable of making women who use it give birth to twins. Eating it regularly over a period of time may help you to conceive twins if that’s what you dream about. According to a native of Igbo Ora:
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"Delivering twin babies is our industry here. We are the ones producing more twins than any other towns in Nigeria, and that is what our study reveals because of the symbolic reason that we prepare okra leaves as soup more than any other soup,”
He noted further that:
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“There is no man or woman in this town who does not know how to eat okra soup. We cook the leaves called ewe ilasa (ilasa leaves) more of which we consume than any other soup"
So ladies, you can give it a try. Who knows, you may just be the next 'Mama twins'.
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Posted: at 24-08-2016 05:03 PM (7 years ago) | Hero
EDDYPRINCE at 24-08-2016 05:11 PM (7 years ago) (m)
NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF,, SO IT FAKE ,,, GOD JUST THEY BLESS UNA WITH TWIN NOT BC OF OKRA SOUP
Posted: at 24-08-2016 05:11 PM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Na GOD dey give pikin. Make una dey deceive una sef. Twin full my family and I doubt if na okra and d leave make my grand aunts and my mum born twin. My immediate juniors ones are twin. My elder sister has two boys. So na okra make dem born am? If I hear
Posted: at 24-08-2016 07:45 PM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
AmazingMarie at 24-08-2016 09:03 PM (7 years ago) (f)
oya make all ladies start okro leaves and okro soup in their diet. lol. l believe God gives babies twins triplets etc not as per diet of soup, vegetable or fruit
Posted: at 24-08-2016 09:03 PM (7 years ago) | Hero
My mum had twin,a boy and a girl.but be haven't cooked okro leaves in our house before.we only eat okro soup and not the leaves .me no even like Okro because anytime I eat Okro or Ogbono soup finish Ni so something go just begin hungry me imidiatly,I no know why
Posted: at 24-08-2016 09:54 PM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
They may be saying the truth, our traditions also have solutions, we have lost some of this solutions, before we are quick to dismiss such claims, they must be tested.
Posted: at 25-08-2016 08:32 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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