medicinal Plants avocado

Avocado has antioxidant properties, protecting cells against free radicals andpreventing the aging process.
Latin name: Persea americana.
English title: Avocado.
Family: Laurel - Lauraceae.
Common name: American Perseus
Used parts avokadr: fruit.Botanical description: avocado - a fast-growing tree, reaching a height of 18 m. The trunk is usually straight, strong branches. Leaves elliptic, up to 20 cm in fall year round. The flowers are inconspicuous, small, greenish, bisexual, are in the leaf axils.The fruit of avocado pear, oval or spherical, 5-10 cm long, weighs 0,05-1,8 kg. Peel the fruit is hard, immature fruit - dark green, shortly after ripening black. The flesh of mature fruit green or yellow-green, oily and contains a lot of fat. In the center of the fruit is a large seed.Distribution: Avocados are grown in many tropical and subtropical regions (USA, Brazil, Africa, Israel).Active ingredients (per 100 g of pulp)Fat - 30 gProtein - 1.6 g - 2.1 gVitamin K - 14.6 mgDietary fiber - 3.65 mgPotassium - 437.27 mgFolate - 45.19 mcgVitamin B6 - 0.2 mgVitamin C - 5.77 mgCopper - 0.19 mgCalories - 118 caloriesAvocado - useful properties and applicationsAvocado is effective in hypertension, diabetes, gastritis, dyspepsia, gastritis with low acidity and high acidity of gastric juice. Nutritionists recommend avocado with constipation, cataracts, beriberi, and as a tonic after previous infections and other diseases.Avocados are one of the fat-containing fruits, giving the palm a coconut, the lion's share of their component fats are useful and easily digestible monounsaturated fatty acids. Therefore, despite the high caloric content, this fruit is a useful dietary product.Avocados help to reduce "bad" cholesterol, are useful for atherosclerosis, anemia, hypertension, generally favorable working on the cardiovascular system.

Avocado also has antioxidant properties, protecting cells against free radicals and preventing the aging process.When used avocado reduced irritability, increased efficiency, ability to concentrate, drowsiness and fatigue passes, feel better. This is explained by the combined effect of a substance contained in the avocado mannogeptulozoy, which lowers the blood glucose level, while contributing to better learning of her brain cells.Potassium in large quantities is part of the avocado, the body responsible for the generation and transmission of nerve impulses, as well as normalizes water-salt balance and the work of the muscular system.Useful properties also have the seeds and leaves of avocados, broth which is used to treat dysentery and chronic colitis and enterocolitis.Contraindications. Idiosyncrasy. Also keep in mind that the composition of avocado pits are toxic substances that may lead to disturbances of the digestive system or cause a severe allergic reaction.Tags Perseus American folk medicine on the site: medicinal plantsPosted by: Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine