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PAYA

Avocado

Persea americana

MEDICINAL BENEFITS

Bark

  • Bark in the treatment  of diarrhoea

Root

Seed

  • The oil from the seed contains steroids used for pharmaceuticals

  • A seed extract has erythro agglutinating property

  • Seed is ground and made for ointment for skin infections, scabies, wounds, and lesions of the scalp

Leaves

  • Anticancer activity of the leaves and fresh shoots

  • Have antihypertensive activity

  • Leaf and seed contain cyanide

  • Leaves are astringent

  • Oral infusion of the leaves treats dysentery, relieves coughs, lowers blood pressure, treating liver obstructions, promoting menstrual flow and clearing high uric acid levels in the body

Fruit

  • The fruit contains reductase and transferase enzymes

  • Fruit pulp is emollient, lowers blood cholesterol levels

  • Using the pulp externally has cooling and soothing properties on the skin

  • Skin of fruit has anthelmintic properties used for expelling worms

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

  • Often used in intercropping, want to move away from monoculture farming practices 

  • Reduce soil erosion 

OTHER USES

  • Fruit can be eaten 

  • Tea can be made from the tears

  • Toasted leaves are used in the flavoring of stews and bean dishes

  • Oil can be used for cosmetics 

  • The reddish-brown dye obtained from the seed for marking clothes 

  • Tannin from the seed 

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