Soapberry has many uses

In folklore, soapberry is considered a fruit that can ward off evil spirits, purify the space, and drive away evil spirits. When it is necessary to drive away evil spirits and purify the space, ancient people often burn soapberry to drive away evil spirits. The scent of soapberry is said to have the effect of purifying the space to make it cleaner and more airy.

Soapberry is also a fruit with many uses for health. Soapberry is used to treat sinusitis, rhinitis, cough, and treat boils and scabies. Soapberry seeds are often used to treat intestinal parasites. Soapberry was also the main ingredient in shampooing water when modern shampoos had not yet been invented. Soapberry has cleansing properties, and has foam similar to natural soap. Therefore, ancient people bought soapberry, boiled it, and crushed it to make a liquid to wash hair and clothes (not white clothes). Today, soapberry is still sold from rural markets to city markets to purify the space, especially at the end of the year, and to wash hair.

The ancients often used soapberry to fumigate or bury it in a pile of rice husks in front of the house every time a funeral procession passed by, or every time they visited a funeral, returned from a cemetery, or every time they returned from unlucky places like hospitals, prisons, etc. Soapberry is also often burned to treat nasal congestion.

Why avoid planting soapberry trees in the house?

Soapberry has many uses, but they are not suitable plants in terms of feng shui. The outstanding feature of soapberry trees is that the trunk has many thorns growing in clusters. Soapberry thorns are very hard. Therefore, planting soapberry trees in front of the house can cause accidents, especially if there are small children playing around. Soapberry thorns are very sharp, so if you stab them, it will be very painful and can cause infection.

From a feng shui perspective, plants with sharp thorns should not be planted in front of the house because sharp thorns cause bad feng shui. But soapberry is a type of tree with thorns, a type of terrible hard thorns that cause bad feng shui. Moreover, soapberry is a tall tree, so planting it in front of the house is not beautiful and can block the view. People avoid tall trees with sharp thorns, trees with bad meanings, and bad names in front of the house.

Therefore, soapberry grown for picking fruit is often planted in a private area for cultivation or planted very far from the house. Therefore, the ancients only planted soapberry in houses with very large land so that they are not close to the house.

When planting in front of the house, you should plant trees that bring good luck and fortune such as silver tree, money tree, pomegranate tree, Buddha’s hand tree, tangerine tree…

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