GARROFO (algarrobo ceratonia siliqua)

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	GARROFO
	*algarrobo ceratonia siliqua*

Name
GARROFO

Scientific Name
algarrobo ceratonia siliqua

GARROFO

Other Names:

Garrofo, Bread of San Juan Baptist

Although this tree cultivates itself as food for the cattle millenia ago in all the Mediterranean river basin, their remarkable medicinal properties were not discovered to decades ago.

Habitat: own of the Mediterranean countries. In America some varieties are known (black carob tree and carob tree of the Antilles).

Description: tree of perennial leaf, up to 10 meters of stop, the family of the Leguminosas. It gives fruits with dark form of case brown, that contain of 12 to 16 hard seeds you would also incrustadasen a brown pulp and of sweet flavor.

Used parts: the fruits (carob beans) and the seeds (garrofín).

Properties and indications: the pulp of its fruits, the carob beans, contains abundant sugars (saccharose mainly) and pectina, as well as starch (3,8%), proteins (4%), mineral fats (0,5%), cellulose and salts. The fresh carob beans are laxative. However, its dry flour is antidiarreica, and in addition it has the special property to adsorb toxins of the digestive conduit. It obtains excellent results in the infantile diarreas, until the point of which he is one of the treatments more using in the gastroenteritis of the suckling babies.

The seeds, calls garrofín, are rich in mucílagos. From them the carob bean rubber is obtained, which in the stomach forms a viscous gel, that, due to its great increase of volume by adsorption of liquids in the stomach, it provides sensation of satiety and acquittal the appetite, reason why usually is used in the thinning cures. In the intestine the carob bean rubber has emollient effect (suavizante) and laxative.

Use: with the flour one is prepared papilla of pleasing flavor, that simultaneously that cuts the diarrea, it feeds. The rubber is sold in capsules or you exceed; the dose normal to clear the appetite is of 0.5 to 1.5 grams of carob bean rubber, half an hour before each food, ingested along with a water glass.

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