SQUASH

This vegetable is very rich in fiber, vitamins A, B, and C, minerals and water, niacin, and a little albuminoid. Because it is cold, if eaten cool and cold in the stomach.

The pulp consists of 90 percent water, 7.5 percent carbohydrates, 1 percent protein, fiber 0.6 percent, 0.2 percent ash and 0.1 percent fat. Also contains about 20 mg calcium, 25 mg phosphorus, 100 mg potassium, 0.3 mg iron, 2 mg of sodium, as well as some chemicals that have medicinal.
Water squash has a good diuretic effect, so the launch of urination. Thus, excess uric acid can be immediately expelled from the body.


Squash (Sechium edule, English: chayote) is a plant-Labuan tribe gourd (Cucurbitaceae) of edible fruits and young shoots. This plant vines in the ground or climb a bit ordinary and cultivated in the yard, usually near the pond. Hanging fruit from the stalk. The leaves are shaped like a triangle and hairy surface.

Costa Rica is a major exporter in the world. In Indonesia, squash is a vegetable secondary but almost always can be found on the market. The fruit is usually boiled briefly to remove the sap and then eaten as a salad with chili paste or a mixture of vegetables and vegetable bobor nodes. The fruit can also be chopped and mixed to soften the dumplings. The young shoots can be boiled and made ​​cah. The fruit is an important vegetable in the Mexican cuisine. In Australia, sliced ​​fruit, covered with bread crumbs, then fried.

People knew him as chayote Indonesia because the plant was imported from Thailand (formerly Siam Affairs) by the Dutch.

Ingredients and benefits: Fruit squash that is soothing the stout-containing resin as well as substances such as proteins, fats, calcium, phosphorus, iron


In addition to lowering blood fats (cholesterol and triglycerides), several health and nutrition experts also stated that the gourd can treat high blood pressure, reduce heat, diabetes, and facilitate the digestive process.

Allegedly soluble fiber content in squash may be able to bind some bile salts into the intestine 12 fingers. In addition is a diuretic (water peluruh art), its content alkoloid can open the blocked blood vessels. For that reason, squash can reduce high blood.

Through the art that a lot of wasted water due to the diuretic properties of the squash, salt content in the blood is reduced, too. Reduced levels of salt that is absorbed or hold this water will lighten the heart in pumping blood, so blood pressure will decrease.

Uric acid, Diabetes, Bleeding Gums, To eliminate the black line on the heel.


Usefulness:

1. Bleeding Gums
   ½ fruit squash, washed, and shredded. Give 2 tablespoons of boiled water and 1 tablespoon of honey.     Squeeze, strain. Drink 3 times daily as needed. 
2. Sprue
   Eating fruit squash as a side dish or can be eaten raw as fresh vegetables.
3. Black line on the heel
   Squash sap smeared on the heels of the bergarishitam it. Allow to dry. Then go slowly. 
4. For Drugs In
   Squash would make a great fresh vegetables or processed vegetables, such as a mixture of sour vegetable sauce, fried, or steamed vegetables bersantan as fresh vegetables.
5. Diabetes
   Eating squash that has been steamed. The content of starch filling, so that people with diabetes mellitus was no longer the staple food consumed in excess.