Thursday, July 23, 2009

Avocado - Scientific name: Persea americana


The abokado is a type of fruit that lives in hot countries like the Philippines, Indonesia and certain other countries tropikal. It is rich in vitamin A which it pinalilinaw our eyes, while prohibited naman ito sa mga taong may alta-pressure pinalalapot because it causes blood increase it ..

I. The leaves of abokado is on drugs and medicines nagtatae who also sore gums. Secretory nerve, stomach ache, throat, rheumatism and skin diseases.

Ways:
Stew of fresh leaves (or dried) to make tea. Drink regularly to lose nararamdamang disease.

II. Dental disease

Ways:
Cut a small piece of bone and plugging a hole in the tooth holes, three (3) times day.

History
A. Americana, or the avocado, has a long history of being Cultivated in Central and South America; a water jar shaped like an avocado, dating to AD 900, was discovered in the pre-Incan city of Chan Chan. The earliest known written account of the avocado in Europe is that of Martín Fernández de Enciso (c. 1470-c. 1528) in 1518 or 1519 in his book, Sum geografia de que trata de Todas las Partidas y Provincias del Mundo. The first written record in English of the use of the word 'avocado' was by Hans Sloane in a 1696 index of Jamaican plants. The plant was introduced to Indonesia by 1750, Brazil in 1809, the Levant in 1908, and South Africa and Australia in the late 19th century.

Etymology
The word "avocado" comes from the Nahuatl word āhuacatl ( "testicle", a reference to the shape of the fruit). Historically avocados had a long-standing stigma as a sexual stimulant and were not purchased or consumed by any person wishing to preserve a chaste image. Avocados were known by the Aztecs as "the fertility fruit". In some countries of South America such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay, the avocado is known by its Quechua name, palta. In other Spanish-speaking countries it is called aguacate, and in Portuguese it is abacate. The fruit is sometimes called an "avocado pear and alligator pear (pear due to its shape, and alligator due to the rough green skin of some cultivars). The Nahuatl āhuacatl can be compounded with other words, as in āhuacamolli, meaning" avocado soup or sauce, from which the Mexican Spanish word guacamole derives.