Arrowroot - Treatment and Medical Benefits of Arrowroot Recipe and Starch

Latin description: Maranta arundinacea syn Maranta Indica, Maranta ramosissima

Common Name: Araruta, Bermuda Arrowroot, East or West Indian Arrowroot, Indian arrowroot, Maranta Starch

Medcinal Uses and Benefits of Arrowroot

Mashed rhizomes are said to have been used on wounds from poisoned arrows, scorpion and black spider bites and to halt gangrene; also said to be useful is the freshly expressed juice mixed with water as an antidote for vegetable poisons.
Demulcent.
Main value is as an easily digested, nourishing diet for convalescents especially in bowel complaints.
CONVALESCENT FOOD = 1 Tbsp of arrowroot powder to 1 pint of water. First make it into a smooth paste with a little cold water or milk. Then stir carefully while the boiling liquid is added. Lemon juice, sugar or wine may be added. If thick it will cool into a jelly that is suitable for weaning infants.
The Mayas used a poultice of the root for smallpox and made an infusion to drink for pus in the urine.

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