Natural Health Care

The Avocado is originally from Mexico and tropical America, and it was quickly spread throughout the tropics and sub-tropical.

A special botanical almost need cross-fertilization in most species

In fact, the stigmas are receptive when the pollen is not wall.
These are the insects, particularly bees attracted by nectar glands of staminodes that ensure fertilization by carrying pollen from tree to tree.
The fruit is a drupe shape and color variable but usually pyriform yellow-green to brown-purple. The thin skin covering the mesocarp fleshy, soft, oily, buttery or nutty odor, greenish-yellow. The large nucleus is located in the center.

Chemical Composition and Properties

The avocado pulp has a slightly different chemical composition according to variety, geographical origin and climatic conditions:
Water: 65-80%
Sugar: 2-10%
protein: 1-4%
Oil 3-30%.

There are Vitamins A and E and vitamin B complex, little or no vitamin C.
Avocado oil is thick, colored green, smell and taste pleasant nutty, it goes rancid easily.
Its average composition:
Oleic acid: 42 to 63%
palmitic acid: 17-29%
linoleic acid: 9-16%
linolenic acid less than 1%.

The unsaponifiable which can reach 1-2% is half made up of branched hydrocarbons with 20% of sterols and triols reducing unidentified.

Uses

The avocado pulp is very energetic, 2000-3000 kgcal per kg, and yet quite digestible because the oil is emulsified form.
It is usually eaten raw in salads, but also incorporated into sorbets or drinks. Do not overcook.

The avocado pulp can be applied in facial mask and directly mixed with hair care preparations.
The oil in the composition of cosmetic products, shampoos, soaps and luxurious non-irritating foaming profusely. The unsaponifiable matter in the composition of herbal medicines intended to modify the composition and metabolism of connective tissue.
For example, the mixture

Third unsaponifiable avocado
Two thirds soybean unsaponifiables

is recommended in the treatment of substance disorders and inflammation of the tissues supporting the tooth in the maxilla (periodontal disease), dermatology (scleroderma) and in the adjunctive treatment of osteoarthritis pain. More anecdotal: the Caribbean, using an infusion of leaves to treat various disorders, fatigue, diabetes, indigestion, menstrual disorders and especially the avocado pit into which the composition of aphrodisiac preparations (egg wine avocado: 1 grated avocado seed in 1 liter of wine).

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