Cassava

(Manihot esculenta, Crautz.)

Synonym: --

Family: Euphorbiaceae

Description:
Cassava (Manihot esculenta) plants termaasuk software trunked tree or brittle (easily broken). Trunked cassava and jagged round the place of the former base of the petiole, the middle bergabus and including high plant. Cassava can reach 1-4 meters. Maintenance is easy and productive. Cassava can thrive in areas berketinggian 1200 meters above sea level. Cassava leaves have long stalks and resemble strands of palm leaves, and each stem has a leaf about 3-8 pieces. The petiole is yellow, green or red.

Local Name:
Cassava (United Kingdom), Kasapen, sampeu, kowi dangdeur (Sunda); Cassava, cassava, sweet potatoes (Indonesia); Tree, Bodin, cassava Bodin, general tela, tela kaspo (Java);

Curable Disease:
Rheumatism, fever, headache, diarrhea, Parasitic Worms, Eye blurred; appetite, suppurating wounds, new wounds got hot;

Utilization:
1. Rheumatic
a. Ingredients: 5 pieces of cassava leaves, 1 / 4 teaspoon whiting.
How to make: both materials are finely ground.
How to use: used as a powder / sleep on
part.

b. Ingredients: 1 piece of cassava stems.
Method: boiled with 5 cups water to boiling
down to 4 cups, then filtered to take water.
How to use: drink 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.

2. Fever
a. Ingredients: 1 piece of cassava leaf stem.
How to make: boil with 3 cups water to boiling,
then filtered to take water.
How to use: drink 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.

b. Ingredients: 3 pieces of cassava leaves.
Method: finely ground.
How to use: used as a compress.

3. Headaches
Ingredients: 3 pieces of cassava leaves.
Method: finely ground.
How to use: used as a compress.

4. Diarrhea
Ingredients: 7 cassava leaves.
How to make: boil with 4 cups water to boiling until
live 2 cups, then filtered to take water.
How to use: drink 2 times a day, morning and afternoon. When children
is still nursing the diarrhea, the mother who drank.

5. Expel helminth
Ingredients: cassava bark taste.
How to make: boil with 3 cups water to boiling until
live 1 cup, then filtered to take water.
How to use: drink at bedtime.

6. The eyes are often blurred
Ingredients: cassava leaves to taste.
Method: boiled, flavored and garlic salt
sufficiently.
How to use: eaten with rice every day.

7. Increase appetite
Ingredients: cassava leaves to taste.
Method: boiled, flavored and garlic salt
sufficiently.
How to use: eaten with rice and tomato sauce.

8. Fester
a. Ingredients: cassava leaf stem is still young.
Method: finely ground.

b. Ingredients: 1 piece of fruit cassava.
How to make: shredded.
How to use: dibobokan on the injured body part

9. New injuries hit the hot items (eg exhaust)
Ingredients: 1 piece of fruit cassava.
How to make: grated and squeezed to take water, and
left a few moments until the flour (patinya = Java) to settle.
How to use: flour (starch) is applied to the parts of the body
wounds.

Composition:
KANDUNGAN CHEMISTRY: Cassava has a chemical composition (per 100 grams), among others: - Calories 146 cal - Protein 1.2 grams - 0.3 grams Fat - 34.7 grams of carbohydrate - Calcium 33 mg - 40 mg Phosphorus - Zat 0.7 mg iron cassava fruits contain (per 100 gram): - 0.06 mg Vitamin B1 - Vitamin C 30 mg - and 75% of the fruit can be eaten. Cassava leaves contain (per 100 gram): - Vitamin A 11,000 SI - Vitamin C 275 mg - 0.12 mg Vitamin B1 - 165 mg Calcium - 73 cal Calories - 54 mg Phosphorus - 6.8 g Protein - Fat 1.2 gram - 13 grams of carbohydrate - 2 mg of iron - and 87% of the leaves can be eaten. Cassava bark contains tannin, peroxidase enzymes, glycosides and calcium oxalate.