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Compared to outdoor gardening, indoor plants are less attractive to problems, making them popular among urban and city dwellers. Growing plants in-house require minimal maintenance than tending a whole farm. However, significant concern has been raised by indoor plant lovers on whether these plants invite bugs? If this has been an issue to you, then you are at the right place. I will guide you on some of the conditions that can make your herb prone to bugs, common indoor plant bugs, and ways to prevent bugs from affecting your plant.   Can Indoor Plants Attract Bugs? Growing plants indoors can attract bugs if the growth condition is highly moist and lacks proper air circulation. Just like mosquitoes love stagnant water and dump areas, some bugs like humid conditions, which they use as breeding grounds to sire future generations and as a hideout. If you observe these pests in your house, there is a high possibility they might be residing in your plant. The common bugs include fungus

Nobody loves to be awake all night because of mosquito disturbances. Usually, you get annoyed, frustrated, and disturbed, especially when you have a business to attend to early in the morning. As you figure out what to do, the clock continues to tick, and mosquitoes, too, are not in the mood of leaving you soon. What will you do? I guess you lack an idea apart from buying mosquito repellant soaps or waiting to contract malaria and visit the hospital. The good news is that there are mosquito repellant plants that you can easily grow and tender in your garden without spending much like in maize or vegetable farming. These plants perform by producing a natural scent that keeps irritating mosquitoes and releases a wonderful fragrance in the garden or room. 3 Mosquito Repellant Plants  1.       Marigold Like its sweet name, Marigold is easy to grow and it is an annual herb that produces a fragrance that repels mosquitoes and leaves your garden or room with a wonderful scent. Marigold

       The advancement of technology greatly affected the use of traditional medicine, commonly known as “herbs,” by promoting the introduction of modern medicine, which can now be consumed in the form of tablets and syrups. Numerous countries, especially those in the developing world, still emphasize the application of traditional medicine in their health care system. Surprisingly, traditional medicine has dominated the South-East Asian regions’ healthcare structure for a prolonged period compared to the modern interventions that are now experiencing a surge in use. This has been induced by the fact that traditional medicine has been integrated in South-East Asia for generations, which denotes its importance and value in fighting and preventing ill-health (Oyebode et al., 2016). Consequently, over the past years, first world nations have enhanced their interest in traditional herbs, acupuncture, and other alternatives to support modern intervention. Moreover, there is an upsurge in