Aguapé

Cooking salt. Before the contact with the white thing, the Indians were totally self-sufficient. Everything that they were needing they were taking away of the nature. Up to the salt. The most incredible thing is that the salt of the Indians is done from one of the commonest aquatic plants in Brazil: the aguapé. Tudo que precisavam tiravam da natureza. Até o sal. O mais incrível é que o sal dos índios é feito de uma das plantas aquáticas mais comuns no Brasil: o aguapé.

Popular name: Aguapé, baroneza, camalote, water hyacinth, hyacinth - d'água, murerê, mureru, muriru, murumuru, of mururé-straw, ear of deer, orchid - d'água, parecí, pavoã, queen of the lakes

Principals Substâncias: Chloride of potassium (salt), chlorine, lime, nitrogen, magnesium

Name Cientifico: Eichhornia crassipes

Usefulness: It is a native plant and it multiplies with great easiness, becoming invasive in many cases. The great use of this plant in the medicine is like a substitute of the cooking salt (the chloride of sodium) for the potassium chloride. Also it is used how paisagismo. The plant also is used like agent of despoluição of rivers, quoted by Hiroshi Seó with success in Piracicaba. By the power of absorption of other substances this plant must be gathered with much care, cultivated for example only for the medicinal aim. O grande uso dessa planta na medicina é como substituto do sal de cozinha (o cloreto de sódio) pelo cloreto de potássio. Também é usada como paisagismo. A planta também é usada como agente de despoluição de rios, citado por Hiroshi Seó com sucesso em Piracicaba. Pelo poder de absorção de outras substâncias essa planta deve ser colhida com muito cuidado, cultivada por exemplo apenas para o fim medicinal.

The form of Use: Flavorings.

To prepare the salt, do in the next way:
To gather the stems and leaves of aguapé, to put to dry in the sun, when you link they wither, to dry and to brighten up, to burn the branches up to being a firebrand, moving up to becoming ashes, straining with a special sieve (of fiber or vine), adds water and mix up to becoming a dark broth, one lets purify then for the ash ascentar, take to a clay pan, to the low fire to stop up to drying the water, the salt will be ready for consumption.

OBSERVATION:: Not to use this plant as medicine if she has not been cultivated for this aim. Only in water of the best quality, since she absorbs heavy metal of polluted water. Somente em água de ótima qualidade, pois ela absorve metais pesados de água poluída.

Info: http://jorgeroriz.wordpress.com/substitua-o-sal-usado-na-alimentacao-por-um-po-extraido-de-uma-planta/

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Aguape

Eichhornia

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