Persea Americana Mill (Avocado)

AVOCADO

Classification

Kingdom : Plantae
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta
Superdivisio : Spermatophyta
Divisio : Magnoliophyta
Class : Magnoliopsida
Sub-Class : Magnoliidae
Ordo : Laurales
Family : Lauraceae

Genus : Persea

Species : Persea americana P. Mill.

The leaf avocado has bitter taste and the bark of tree has methylchavicol, alphapinene,tanin and flavonoid. Avocado has skin, fruit meat and kernel. Avocado has kernel which place in centre of fruit.

Other members of the family include Cinnamomum (cinnamon and camphor), Laurus (bay leaves and Greek laurel of antiquity), Sassafrass (food flavoring) and Cassytha (devil's tresses), a parasite with a flexible, string-like shoot, occuring in tropical and subtropical countries. Cinnamomum was once the most economically important of the family, but now Persea americana, the avocado, holds that title. It also produces an oil, estragol, in the leaves that is used in the cosmetics industry and also has insecticidal properties. The fruit has the highest energy content of any fruit and is high in its vitamin A, B1, B2 and mineral content, as well as a good source of mono-unsaturated fat, and soluble and insoluble fiber.

Fruit meat, leaf and kernel of avocado can be used as medicine for several diseases;

1. hypertension and headache

take 3-5 sheet fresh leaf avocado and wash into clean, sob with a glass of hot water.

After rather cold, drink it. Drink it once a day

2. Dry face skin

Pulverize fruit meat at sufficiently until smooth than dab it to face skin with spead evenly

and let it 3-5 minutes. After the avocado get dry on skin and than rinse it with warm water

until clean and finally dab face with ice smoothly.

Do it every morning and night before get sleep

3. Diabetes

First, Baked the kernel of avocado on fire. Than cut it into little piece and boiled

until the colour change into brown. Finally, drink it a glass everyday but filter it before you

drink.