LA YUCA ES UN ARBUSTITO DE HOJAS DIGITADAS DE ORIGEN SUR AMERICANO.SE LLAMABA CASSAV ENTRE LOS INDÍGENAS Y DE EL SE HACIA UNA DE SUS COMIDAS USUALES ,EL CASABE.ESTE SE OBTIENE DE LLAS RAICES TUBEROSAS,SE RASPAN Y SE PRODUCE UNA HARINA PARA HACER EL CASABE,SE COME LA YUCA HERVIDA,NUESTRAS ESPOSAS E HIJAS,AL HERVIRLA LE HECHAN UN AJO,PUES PUEDE SER TÓXICA.EN EL BARRIO SAN JOSÉ EL AGRÓNO LUIS LÓPEZ PRODUJO LAS MÁS RICAS QUE HE COMIDO.AL HERVIRSE PUEDEN SER JOJOTAS O CARNOSAS
Cassava is grown primarily for the tubers which are used as a foodstuff.
Tubers may be eaten raw, boiled or fried, or in baked goods. Since there is
HCN in the skin of sweet varieties, they must be peeled first before eating.
In bitter varieties the HCN is throughout the root, which must be cooked before
using. From the manioc tuber are obtained starch, farina, a whole flour,
grated manioc and tapioca. Tapioca is used as a thickener in puddings and
soups; an industrial starch is used in baked goods, laundry and paper
industries, and for sizing cotton fabrics and other textiles; from the starch a
glue is prepared useable on postage stamps. Young leaves are high in Vitamin B
and are a good remedy for beriberi, but they have the highest HCN content;
however, they are sometimes used as a vegetable and for hog food. In the
Philippines tubers are reduced to a pulp, wrapped with shredded coconut meats
and sugar in banana leaves and boiled; then served as a dessert (suman). Roots
may be used as fodder for livestock. Manioc is also the source of alcoholic
beverages, or power alcohol.
Medicinally, the poisonous juice is boiled down to a syrup and given as an
aperient (Guiana). Fresh rhizome made into a poultice is applied to sores.
The flour cooked in grease, the leaf stewed and pulped, and the root decocted
as a wash are said to be folk remedies for tumors. According to Hartwell
(1967–1971), cassava is used in folk remedies for cancerous affections,
condylomata, excrescences of the eye, and tumors. Reported to be antiseptic,
cyanogenetic, demulcent, diuretic, and POISON, cassava is a folk remedy for
abscesses, boils, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, dysentery, flu, hernia,
inflammation, marasmus, prostatitis, snakebite, sore, spasm, swellings, and
testicles. (Duke and Wain, 1981)
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