What is the effect of cassava?

 What is the effect of cassava?

Cassava is a vine of the legume family, grown in many places in our country for food and medicine. Most of the parts of the cassava plant are used as medicine.

The effect of cassava

Most of the parts of the cassava plant are used as medicine. But the best used part is the roots (or tapioca tubers) harvested in winter and spring. Tapioca tubers are dug up and cleaned of sandy soil, removed the outer shell, cut into pieces or sliced, then dried or dried, in Oriental medicine called sand root.

According to Oriental medicine, cassava has a sweet taste, cool properties, has the effect of relieving heat and muscle loss, giving speeches with insight, giving birth to only thirst, and promoting yang only, often used to treat diseases such as fever due to extrasensory perception, pain. neck pain, headache, measles, high fever, thirst, diabetes, diarrhea, dysentery, high blood pressure, myocardial ischemia, nosebleeds, vomiting blood, hemorrhoids and deafness in the ears.

Remedies from cassava

1. Cure children with colds, vomiting, headaches

30g tapioca, pounded with 2 large bowls of water, boiled to 1 bowl, drained the water (remove the residue) and cooked porridge with 50g of plain rice, added a little raw ginger and honey and fed to the children during the day. Use for 3-5 days.

2. Cure alcohol poisoning

Drinking too much alcohol causes damage to the spleen, spitting or vomiting blood, fever, red urine.

Tapioca flour 30g, Hoang Lien 4g, talc 30g (shui phi), licorice powder 15g, grind into fine powder, mix with water, complete tablets, 3g each time, cure with cool water. Or you can dissolve tapioca starch with a glass of water, then add sugar and finally squeeze 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, and add ice for easy drinking. In case you do not want to drink sugar, you can replace it with a little salt, this way will be more difficult to use than the effects that it brings. Another way is to use 30gr of cassava + 4gr of Hoang Lien + 30gr of talc + 15gr of licorice ground into a fine powder, then mix with water to drink.

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3. Refreshments

Tapioca tubers are sliced ​​and fished in equal quantities, the two are crushed, dried or dried, mixed well and stored in sealed jars for use gradually. Every day, take 30g of cassava, put it in a cloth bag, tie it to its mouth, and then bring it to boil with boiling water in a sealed jar. After about 20 minutes, it can be used, drinking instead of tea during the day. This is a very good beverage for people with high blood pressure, headaches, mouth sores, neck and shoulder pain.

Mix tapioca flour into boiled water to cool, add sugar, and stir well. In the summer, when you are doing hard labor or traveling long distances, drinking tapioca starch water helps reduce thirst, relieve fatigue, and prevent heatstroke. Tapioca flour can be used in combination with gotu kola to make it more cool and effective in the following way: Take 20g of gotu kola, wash, pound, add boiling water to cool, squeeze out the water, then mix with 10g of tapioca flour , add oral route. Or cooked to eat. Mix tapioca flour with white sugar and water and cook like a stir fry. In addition, tapioca flour is also used as a binder in the preparation of tablets.

4. Improve round 1 thanks to cassava

According to scientists, the composition of cassava is rich in protein and lecithin, which stimulates the production of estrogen - a female hormone, thus helping a woman's breasts to be rounder and firmer. Ancient women believed that drinking tapioca flour both helped regulate the body after the menstrual cycle and stimulated the natural development of the breasts, helping the breasts to be fuller and more developed.

The method is very simple, every month after the menstrual cycle you just need to mix tapioca flour with warm water, add a little sugar and then drink. Drink 2 times in the morning and evening on the first day after menstruation, and once a day for the following days. Just persist in applying this method for many months, you will see a marked improvement in breast size. Not only that, the cool cassava water will clear the body's heat, help the skin be ruddy, and reduce acne.

In addition to drinking tapioca flour , you can combine tapioca flour with other ingredients to change the taste.

5. Freckle treatment

The ability to treat freckles of cassava originates from a group of isoflavones found in cassava roots that have estrogenic activity similar to the female hormone estrogen. It is this substance that will replace the disrupted hormones, stabilize their activity, prevent the excessive secretion of melanin pigments to reduce dark spots. In addition, Isoflavones are also antioxidants, slowing down the aging process in the body.

To treat freckles, use about 1/2 cup of tomato juice and mix well with 1 teaspoon of tapioca flour. After exfoliating on the face, apply this mixture evenly on the skin, gently massage until the mixture is dry on the skin, then wash your face with warm water.

6. Treatment of heatstroke and heat stroke

Heatstroke, heatstroke belongs to the test of traditional medicine, in other words, it is being hit by the sun, being hit by heat, with symptoms of red face, sweating like bathing, dizziness, dizziness, flowers. eyes, falls, worse, faints, unconscious personnel. About 40g of fresh cassava roots can be used, washed with sandy soil, chopped, pounded, squeezed to get water, added a little salt, stirred well, and given to drink. The patient will recover quickly.

Or in the case of a patient with a heat stroke accompanied by hot fever, headache, hot stomach, vomiting: Use 12g of tapioca flour mixed with orally or use 20g of sand base, 12g of pounded bean curd, and drink water during the day.

7. Acne treatment

Acne is the biggest obsession of puberty. However, when treating acne, you should not be too hasty, but must persevere in combining both internal and external treatments. If you have tried all the ways and it still doesn't work, then try using it. Use tapioca starch to treat acne with the formula in drinking and applying outside. Tapioca has a very high heat-clearing and detoxifying effect, will quickly repel all kinds of toxins accumulated inside your body, reducing Quick acne and effective skin recovery.How to make tapioca flour to treat acne is as follows: Inside: Mix tapioca flour and green bean powder with a little sugar for easy drinking, drink 2 cups a day, or otherwise can drink tapioca flour raw, you can cook tapioca flour with a little sugar and use it every day. In addition, using cassava roots and green beans, boiled for drinking water every day is also extremely effective.

Outside: Mix 20g of tapioca flour with 20g of chickpea flour and 1 teaspoon of honey until the mixture is smooth. Apply this mixture on your face with a thin layer, leave on for about 20-30 minutes and then rinse with cold water. Tapioca flour mask combined with green beans has the effect of cooling the skin, detoxifying, anti-inflammatory and quickly making acne spots shrink and disappear.

Here are the health benefits of cassava. However, according to Dr. Ho Thu Mai - Department of Nutrition, Vinmec Hospital notes: Tapioca flour has very strong cooling and soldering properties, so don't drink more than 1 cup/day and only add a little sugar. For pregnant women, if the body is hot, this is a good cooling drink. But if the pregnant woman feels tired, has a miscarriage, she should absolutely not drink because the cold nature of kudzu makes the pregnant woman more tired and increases uterine contractions. On the other hand, if you regularly drink tapioca flour for too much sugar, the same amount of sugar will make tapioca flour counterproductive, causing heat in the mouth, the risk of obesity and diabetes.