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.

• Canker sore
• Oliguria
• Rosacea
• Coughing
• Medullary sponge kidney
• Multiple myeloma
• Blackhead
• Ear infection
• Medical test
• Valsartan

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