Sweet Potato Health Benefits
The sweet potato is a well-known prostrate annual herb that is smooth and shiny. The boiled or roasted tuberous roots are eaten to take care of strangury and diarrhea, and as a laxative.
(Ipomoea batatas) The sweet potato is a well-known prostrate annual herb that is smooth and shiny. It belongs to the plant family Convolvulaceae. It is cultivated for its tubers that are red, white or yellow in color. The leaves are ovate-cordate and more or less lobed. When fully mature it puts forth many purple, funnel-shaped flowers arranged on long stalks. The seeds are smooth and shiny.
Parts Used: The leaves and the tuberous roots
Medicinal Use
- Strangury or slow and painful discharge of urine caused by muscular spasms
- Diarrhea
- Works as a laxative
- Whitlow, which is a painful abscess on the side of the nail at the end of a finger or a toe
How to Use
- The boiled or roasted tuberous roots are eaten to take care of strangury and diarrhea, and as a laxative.
- The leaves are ground with a pinch of salt and applied to whitlow.
Active Principles: Amylase, protease, invertase, catalase, laccase, arabinase, galactanase, catecholase, cytochrome c-oxidase, phosphorylase and phosphatases, hydrocyanic, oxalic and pytic acids, phytosterols, indole-3-acetic acid
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PR Mace | Feb 7, 2011 | Reply
Too bad I don’t like sweet potatoes.
nimbleful | Feb 7, 2011 | Reply
interesting stuff – i’ve been meaning to read more about these. I’ve always been taught they’re much better for us than white potatoes. In Chinese medicine they’re meant to be really good for the Spleen, for good digestive function.
Karen Gross | Feb 7, 2011 | Reply
We eat sweet potato sticks raw. It’s the only way my kids will eat it, so I don’t bother cooking it anymore.It is probably better for us without the butter and cream anyway.
Judy Sheldon | Feb 7, 2011 | Reply
Good information about sweet potatoes. We all need to increase our consumption of vegetables, particularly ones of color.
Mike Davis | Feb 7, 2011 | Reply
I love sweet potatoes!
Borhan | Feb 7, 2011 | Reply
Excellent. Thanks for sharing.
MaxBuceo | Feb 7, 2011 | Reply
Great post, i like it
Jimmy Shilaho | Feb 8, 2011 | Reply
Wonderful news to sweet potato lovers like me.
rajaryanme | Feb 8, 2011 | Reply
Thanks for sharing the goods of potatoes.
papaleng | Feb 8, 2011 | Reply
Visaya man ako doy, so we simply love eating sweet potatoes. Really good interesting info here.
Starpisces | Feb 8, 2011 | Reply
yes, I heard that sweet potato is very good, a friend of mine take it as breakfast, but I\’m not used to eat it as breakfast.
