Effects and functions:

1, the treatment of swelling, sores and ulcers

China's "Xinhua Materia Medica Compendium" recorded: cassava can be used to treat carbuncle sores and ulcers, stasis and pain, scabies, jock itch and other symptoms. With the research of cassava tuber and stem and leaf bioactive components of the study continue to deepen the study, people found that cassava has many health care functions.

2, anti-cancer cancer and diabetes, hypertension, etc.

Thousands of years, Peru and Brazil around the indigenous Indians have eaten cassava leaf tradition, they will be cassava leaves dried and ground into powder, and then casually added to any dish, drink water will also put some cassava leaf powder, the residents of this area of the resistance to disease is significantly higher than in other areas, and suffering from cancer, such as breast, uterus, ovaries, stomach cancer, etc. Ovarian cancer, stomach cancer and other diseases have not been found in the local residents, and there is no diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and some other common diseases have been found.

3, the treatment of cystitis

It is reported that Madagascar researchers found that the cassava leaves crushed into the salt water boiled for 30-40min, and then take with rice, weekly for 3d, take 3 months, can be treated at all stages of cystitis. A comparison of the various methods revealed that the treatment of cystitis with this method is more effective than other medications and has no dangers or side effects.

4, liver and antioxidant

β-carotene is a precursor to the synthesis of vitamin A in humans and animals. Egle Machado et al. 6-8 months after cassava planting, cassava leaves will be collected and cleaned, placed in a cool 28 ℃ room after drying for 7d after grinding the leaf powder, analyzed and found that each 100g of leaf powder contains 36mg of β-carotene. It was confirmed by mouse test that cassava leaf powder could increase the synthesis of vitamin A in the liver.Kubo et al. studied the Brazilian cassava variety maniva, and the results showed that 100g of leaves contained quercetin 84mg, kaempferol 84mg, rutin 462mg, and found that these three compounds were more effective in terms of antioxidant properties.

Contraindications:

Cassava is divided into bitter cassava and sweet cassava, sweet cassava toxin content is very low, while bitter cassava contains linseed bitter glycosides, in the action of gastric acid will produce a neurotoxic agent - hydrocyanic acid. Sweet cassava should be peeled off, washed and cooked before eating. Bitter cassava must be de-toxicized and then cooked. Eating cassava raw or eating undercooked cassava puts you at risk of poisoning. The folk saying 'eating cassava will make you drunk is actually a mild poisoning.?

The roots, stems and leaves of cassava contain poisonous substances, and if you eat raw or undercooked cassava or drink its soup, you can be poisoned, and its toxins can lead to nerve-paralyzing diseases, and even cause permanent paralysis.

Expanded Information:

Cassava contains toxic substances as linseed bitter glycosides, which may cause poisoning if raw or undercooked cassava is ingested or its soup is drunk. The reason for the linseed bitter glycoside or linseed bitter glycosidase hydrolyzed by gastric acid to produce free hydrocyanic acid, thus poisoning the human body. To prevent cassava poisoning, cassava can be eaten before peeling, with clear water soak potato flesh, so that cyanogenic glycosides dissolved. Generally soak about 6 days can remove 70% of the cyanogenic glycosides, and then heated and cooked, can be eaten.

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