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Cashew

Cassavium pomiferum

Names

History

Constituents

Uses
Sempecardium

anacardium

Oriental Cashew,A. Occidentale
Grows in Jamaica, West Indies and other tropical parts of the Americas.

Its rose-colored pannicales produce a fleshy receptacle,called an apple. At the end of the apple there grows a kidney shaped nut.
Anarcadic acid

yellow oleaginous liquid

Cardol

protein

niacin

magnesium

iron.
nut or kernel:

nutritive;protein,bark:
former use for fever from Malaria.
fresh nutshell juice:


removal of warts and corns, ringworms,cancerous ulcers, elephantiasis,
in beauty treatment, to remove a skin layer from facial tissue.

in fruit juice, wine or spirit,also of use for dropsy and uterine complaints.
Milky secretion from inceised tree:
indelible marking ink

nut:
non-drying lubricant oil.

Gum:
Used like gum Arabic since it is similar -(Cadjii gum), a gum which washes books to provide a repellant to moths and ants.
Used as a hair dye, but not with acids, acid salts or acetate of lead.
A powerful diuretic.
Male potency
older broken nuts can be mixed with Madeira Wine for flavouring.
cocoa and nuts produce good chocolate.


Contra-Indications



Between its inner and outer shell there is a  flammable, caustic oil,which could raise painful skin bisters if handled. Cashew nut must be roasted very well or this, itself is caustic to tongue or to skin.

Do these table colours remind you of the Mynah bird? bet they eat lots of cashews!! Most of Northdays' properties tables are coloured according to my artists' perception of their chemistry, but the cashews' aura was so much the depth of these colours that I have had to issue them as quarter tone.

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