Knowing the medicinal properties of achiote

Hi, friends Steemians, today I am going to talk about the medicinal properties of the achiote plant. This plant grows wild in our region and was used by the aborigines as a coloring to draw ornaments on their skin, as a spice to give color and flavor to foods and as a medicinal use to treat various conditions. Depending on the country its name usually change onoto, achote, axiote, bija, among others.

Today achiote is used as an edible and textile dye, there are few people who know about the healing benefits of this plant, certainly the achiote fruit is the part of the plant most used, however its flowers, roots, seeds and leaves are also generous because they have great medicinal properties.

Medicinal properties of achiote

Annatto is a healing plant that has the following medicinal properties: it has vitamins AB and C, is an anti-inflammatory plant, strengthens the brain, is a healing, anticoagulant, anticarcinogenic, antiseptic, antibiotic, astringent, expectorant, diuretic, laxative, anti-inflammatory , cardiotonic, antibacterial, among others.

Annatto benefit: achiote fights and helps improve the following conditions:

• Improves arterial hypertension.
• Fight headaches.
• Infections (respiratory, urine, throat, vaginal, skin).
• Irritation, neuralgia, vomiting, nausea, fever.
• Conjunctivitis
• Gastrointestinal diseases (gastritis) and diarrhea.
• Skin burns.
• Combats fungus and bacteria.
• Renal pains and hemorrhages.
• Healing and anticoagulant against wounds
• Combat prostate cancer.
• Combat measles and smallpox.

Use and preparation of achiote:

Annatto is a modest plant from which its flowers, fruits, seeds, roots and leaves can be used, as used by our aborigines in the pre-Columbian era, achiote is prepared as follows: tea or infusions, through of its leaves, flowers and roots, in pastes or poultices through its seeds and in oil (achiote oil).

• Your seed can be prepared as a cream or paste to cover skin lesions, burns, irritations or in case of hemorrhage.
• The same paste or poultice is made by grinding its seeds in a piloncillo, and can treat smallpox, measles, skin infections, as a scar, combating fungi and bacteria.
• Tea or infusions are taken to control high blood pressure, respiratory infections, urine and throat infections, fevers, as an anti-inflammatory, for intestinal discomfort (gastritis), headaches, and kidney.
• Also the infusion is used for vaginal washes in case of infection, conjunctivitis, hemorrhoids and abscesses.
• Its crushed and ground leaves control vomiting and nausea.
• Annatto leaf extract controls the pains caused by prostate cancer.
• Its oil is used to give color and flavor to food, and also has great nutritional benefits.
• The oil can be applied in creams, lipsticks and lotions. Annatto prevents premature aging of the skin.

The medicinal plants offer us great versatility and variety when using to control various conditions we have, it is important that we study the plants we have in our gardens and gardens, we must value the authentic medicine, the local indigenous medicine developed by our aborigines, natural ancestral medicine allows you to maintain your body in a healthy and healthy way without having to contaminate yourself with chemical agents that are spreading in your body and that without realizing it gradually diminish your quality of life.

I believe in medicinal plants, I believe in authentic natural medicine.