Know Your Benefits Cassava

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) plants including software trunked tree or brittle (easily broken).

Trunked round and jagged occurred from the former base of the petiole, the middle and bergabus including higher plants. These plants can reach 1-4 meters. Maintenance is easy and productive.

Can thrive in areas berketinggian 1200 meters above sea level. The leaves have long stems and resemble strands of palm leaves, and each stem has a leaf about 3-8 pieces. The petiole is yellow, green or red.

The utilization of cassava for the drug could be done in the following ways:

Rheumatic

a. 5 pieces of sweet potato leaves, 1 / 4 teaspoon whiting, ground fine and used as a powder / sleep on the affected part.

b. 1 slice of boiled sweet potato sticks with 5 cups water to boiling down to 4 cups, then filtered to take water. Taken 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.

Fever

a. 1 piece of cassava leaf stem with 3 cups boiling water to boiling, then filtered to take water. Taken 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.

b. 3 pieces of sweet potato leaves, finely ground and used as a compress.

Headaches

3 pieces of sweet potato leaves, finely ground and used as a compress.

Diarrhea

7 cassava leaves cooked with 4 cups water to boil down to 2 cups, then filtered to take water. Taken 2 times a day, morning and afternoon. If the child is still nursing the diarrhea, the mother who drank.

Expel helminth

Bark is boiled with sweet taste 3 cups water to boil down to 1 cup, and then filtered to take water. Taken at bedtime.

The eyes are often blurred

Cassava leaves sufficiently boiled, flavored and garlic salt to taste, eaten with rice every day.

Increase appetite

Cassava leaves to taste, boiled, flavored and garlic salt to taste. Eaten with rice and tomato sauce.

Fester

a. Trunk young leaves finely ground.

b. 1 piece of fruit grated yam, dibobokkan on the injured body part

New wound heat taxable goods

1 piece of grated cassava and squeezed to take water, and allowed a few moments until the flour in, and applied to the body part injured.

Cassava has a chemical composition (per 100 grams), among others:

- Calories 146 cal

- 1.2 grams protein

- Fat 0.3 grams

- 34.7 grams carbohydrate

- Calcium 33 mg

- Phosphorus 40 mg

- 0.7 mg iron

The fruit contains (per 100 grams):

- Vitamin B1 0.06 mg

- Vitamin C 30 mg

-, And 75% of the fruit can be eaten.

The leaves contain (per 100 grams):

- Vitamin A 11,000 SI

- Vitamin C 275 mg

- Vitamin B1 0.12 mg

- Calcium 165 mg

- Calories 73 cal

- Phosphorus 54 mg

- 6.8 grams protein

- Fat 1.2 grams

- 13 grams of carbohydrate

- 2 mg iron

-, And 87% of the leaves can be eaten.

Cassava bark contains tannin, peroxidase enzymes, glycosides and calcium oxalate.



By: AsianBrain.com Content Team