Can Bamboo Seeds Increase Fertility?
A recent story in the Hindustan Times told the story of a couple in India who had spent a great deal of money and endured a variety of different fertility treatments to conceive a child with no success. That is, until a neighbor suggested that they eat the seeds of a bamboo plant to increase their fertility. After boiling and eating a couple of bamboo seed pods, the couple became pregnant the next month and welcomed a son into the world some months later. Local lore has it that bamboo seeds must increase fertility due to the explosion in the rodent population after the bamboo plants flower. After observing this phenomenon for generations, people’s skepticism has a tendency to be trumped by superstition and even the most preposterous ideas can gain traction and be accepted as truth.
