The wonders of the Blue Pea flower plant (Latin name: Clitoria ternatea)

From my organic garden

I did not realize what a gem of a plant I had growing in my garden until one friday Tony, my gardener pointed it out to me. This precious plant can be used in its entirety from the roots to the pods to the leaves to the flowers and the seeds. Here are a few examples I found while doing further research:

The extract from this blue-flowered vine can be used as a food dye.
The pod is very similar to sweet peas and is edible.
The roots, seeds and leaves are used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine as a memory enhancer, nootropic, anxiolytic, antidepressant, antistress, anticonvulsant, tranquilizing and more, to name but a few examples.
The fresh leaves combined with ginger juice controls excessive sweating.
Root juice with milk relieves cough and phlegm.
Seeds mashed with honey, applied topically reliefs tonsillitis.
The root juice instilled into the nostrils can help treat migraines.

All leguminous plants can make organic rich fertilizer from its root nodules.