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Yo Ban

Common name : Yo - baan

Scientific name : Morinda citrifolia L.

Family name : Rubiaceae 

Botanical characteristics :

Small shrub Dense canopy Many branches Fruiting all year round. 

Trunk : The stem is not straight, gray-brown, smooth.

Blade : Leaves a single, double, oval, base and pointed. The edges are wavy, about 10 -20 cm long, dark green, light stalks are square. The base of the flower is a tubular tip, separated into 5 petals, white.

Fruit : the sum is round, with blistering round buds, green when ripe, yellow.

Seed : burnt brown.

Benefits:

Blade : Contains more than 40,000 international units of vitamin A per 100 grams. It has the ability to nourish the eyesight, heart, squeeze water, cure gout. Pain in the joints of small fingers, toes, or squeezing water to wash hair, kill lice, cure wasting, use the leaves to cook for diarrhea.

Root : Used as a laxative to cure wasting disease and extract the color. Can be dyed By mixing parts of various salt Can be changed to different colors As needed The original color of the roots is yellow. Or reddish yellow If mixed with salt. May be red, pink, brown, purple, red or black, etc.

fruit :

The fruit is mature, but not ripe. Dip with honey and eat It has properties as a carminative, nourishing element, appetite, expelling air in the intestines, stomach, curing gingivitis, swelling, expelling blood, wind, menstrual blood.

Raw fruit boiled in water and eaten with coriander root. Cure vomiting of pregnant women.