What is Cana? Uses of the carrot? 7 remedies from cana fruit

Ca na is a fruit of the West with a sour taste and is loved by many people. Although it has a small economic value, it has many unexpected uses. Join Tnhelearning.edu.vn to learn about the benefits and valuable remedies of cana!

What is Cana? Origin of the fruit

Ca na , also known as filling fruit (Northern) , cockroach fruit, fruit stick… is a tree of the Tram genus. There are two types of fillings: white fillings (Canarium album Raeusch) and black fillings (Canarium nigrum Engl). Cannabis is a white filling.

In the past, cana was considered a wild plant because it grows wild in the saline soils of the West. Ca na is usually harvested around July (around August of the lunar calendar). The fruit has a pointed oval shape, 3 cm long . Old fruit has a dark green color, acrid taste, while ripe fruit has a light green color, sour taste.

The great uses of the carrot

Although “small” but has “martial arts”, cana is not only a fun fruit, but it also brings great benefits to our health.

According to Oriental medicine, cana fruit has a sweet and sour taste, acrid, temperate, non-toxic, in 2 channels of waste and taste (lungs and stomach).

The use of canna fruit is recorded in many medical books such as ” Manuscripts of materials ” or ” Japanese manuscripts “.

Some of the surprising uses of cana fruit can be mentioned below:

• Used to treat swelling of the pharynx, swollen tonsils, a lot of cough
• Fresh green cana fruit can be used to detoxify alcohol, treat poisoning caused by poisonous fish, striped fish.
• Ripe fruits have sedative effects, treat epilepsy.
• Canna seed kernels have the effect of treating worms and bone loss.
• Bark is used to treat paint allergies, toothache.
• Canna tree resin is distilled to get essential oils used in the preparation of perfumes, soaps, …

Besides, it also contains high levels of nutrients for the body such as high calcium, iron, vitamin C.

Some substances such as thymol, P-cymene , nerol , geraniol, S-cadinene , B-caryophyllene , a-copaene , elemol, …

Therefore, it is very suitable for young children , pregnant women and middle-aged people with weakened bodies .

However, too much of anything is not necessarily a good thing. In order to make the most of the benefits of the fruit, you need to learn carefully about the processing method as well as the right amount of intake .

The valuable medicine of the fruit

According to information compiled from the Vietnam Medicinal Association website, cana is also one of the medicinal herbs for traditional remedies to help treat a number of diseases.

Cure dry neck, cough, insomnia

Use 20 – 30 canna fruit (seedless) smashed to cook drinking water. You can add ginger, sugar or honey to drink.

Cure high fever, dry mouth, thirst

Clean the cana, remove the stem, then crush the cana fruit and squeeze it to drink water every day.

Hoarseness in the neck

Fresh cassava 4 fruits, seeded, crushed with 10g sliced ​​ginseng. Put in an earthen pot filled with water, cook and drink. Has the effect of Yin, reducing fire, benefiting the pharynx, clearing heat, detoxifying, and emphysema.

Treatment of bloody dysentery

Canna and O mai equal amount burned to ashes. Use 9g daily with rice water.

Puffer fish poisoning

Use 30g canamon for drinking water . This method is also used for children to get measles and to treat hemolytic disease.

Vascular thrombosis

Use a few boiled eggplants to eat, drink water daily, 200g per day. Treatment 1-2 months.

Cooling water

20g fresh custard apple, seeds removed, fresh reed roots 4 bunches finely chopped. Cook with 0.5 liters of water for 30 minutes , filter drinking water.

Fresh canna has the effect of clearing waste, benefiting pharynx, reducing fire, and chemical phlegm. The roots wipe the heat bar, taste heat, generate new fluids, and prevent coughing. To be effective, you should use it while it is still hot.

How to make smashed coffee

Prepare materials

• granulated sugar: 150 grams (about 8 tablespoons),
• Grain salt: 1 tbsp,
• Table salt: 1 teaspoon,
• Chili salt: 1 teaspoon,
• Tomato tomatoes: ½ kg.

Steps to take

Step 1: Prepare the coffee beans

• Wash the carrot, remove the stem. Soak in dilute salt water for 3-5 minutes to remove pus.
• Next, you put the ca na on the cutting board, use a pestle to smash the ca na. Be careful not to break it too hard .
• After smashing the cana, you put it in a basket and wash it with water several times to make it less acrid.

Step 2: Soak the canamon with dilute salt water

• Next, you put the canamon in a bowl and then add cold water and 1 teaspoon of salt. Then soak for 1 hour.
• After soaking, you wash the canamon about 3 times and squeeze it out.

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Step 3: Mix custard with salt and sugar

• Mix coffee with 150 grams of fine granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon of foamed salt and let it sit for about 8-10 hours for the sugar to dissolve (if you use big granulated sugar, it will take longer to dissolve).
• After the coffee has completely dissolved, add a teaspoon of chili salt and mix well (you can add more chili powder if you want it more spicy) and let it sit for about 15 minutes for the salt to penetrate.

Finished Product

Ca custard apple has a characteristic sweet and sour taste and is slightly acrid. Probably will make you eat forever.