Sliced ​​dried cassava

Cassava is a vining plant belonging to the Bean family, grown in many places in our country for food and medicine. Most parts of the cassava plant are used as medicine.

Manioc tubers

Most parts of the cassava plant are used as medicine. But the best part to use is the root (or cassava tuber) harvested in winter and spring. The cassava root is dug up and washed of sand and soil, the outer layer is removed, cut into pieces or sliced, then dried or sun-dried, in Oriental medicine it is called sand can.

According to Oriental medicine, cassava has a sweet taste, cool properties, has the effect of relieving muscles and heat, clarifying diagnosis, giving birth to thirst, promoting yang to describe, and is often used to treat diseases such as fever due to extrasensory perception, pain. neck pain, headache, measles, high fever and thirst, diabetes, diarrhea, dysentery, high blood pressure, myocardial ischemia, nosebleeds, vomiting blood, bleeding hemorrhoids and tinnitus and deafness.