English names:
Pomelo, shaddock, paradise apple, forbidden fruit, pompelmoose.
Description:
A tree about 10m. high. Young shoots thorny. Leaves alternate, dark-green, shining above, obscurely puberulent beneath; petiole broadly winged. Inflorescence in axillary cyme; flowers white, fragrant. Fruit large, globose, pale-yellow; rind thick; vesicles numerous, distinct. Seeds angular.
Flowering period:
March-May.
Distribution:
Widely cultivated everywhere as a domestic fruit.
Parts used:
Leaves, skin of fruit, flowers. The leaves are harvested throughout the year and used fresh. The ripe fruit is collected from July to September. Its skin is separated from the vesicles and dried in the shade.
Chemical composition:
The essential oil from the leaves consists of dipentene, linalol, citral, limonene, flavonoids, vitamins A, C, B1, rhamnose, citric acid, pectin and fatty oil.
Therapeutic uses:
The fresh leaves in combination with leaves from some other aromatic plants are used in treating coryza, influenza and headache by inhalation of the vapour from the boiling decoction. The fruit rind is effective for dyspepsia, colic and cough, in a daily dose of 4 to 12g in the form of a decoction. The seed envelopes contain pectin, which is a haemostatic. The seeds, stripped of their envelope and charred, are applied externally for impetigo. Massage with heated young leaves is effective for treating bruises.
Source: Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (Institute of Materia Medica).
Pomelo, shaddock, paradise apple, forbidden fruit, pompelmoose.
Description:
A tree about 10m. high. Young shoots thorny. Leaves alternate, dark-green, shining above, obscurely puberulent beneath; petiole broadly winged. Inflorescence in axillary cyme; flowers white, fragrant. Fruit large, globose, pale-yellow; rind thick; vesicles numerous, distinct. Seeds angular.
Flowering period:
March-May.
Distribution:
Widely cultivated everywhere as a domestic fruit.
Parts used:
Leaves, skin of fruit, flowers. The leaves are harvested throughout the year and used fresh. The ripe fruit is collected from July to September. Its skin is separated from the vesicles and dried in the shade.
Chemical composition:
The essential oil from the leaves consists of dipentene, linalol, citral, limonene, flavonoids, vitamins A, C, B1, rhamnose, citric acid, pectin and fatty oil.
Therapeutic uses:
The fresh leaves in combination with leaves from some other aromatic plants are used in treating coryza, influenza and headache by inhalation of the vapour from the boiling decoction. The fruit rind is effective for dyspepsia, colic and cough, in a daily dose of 4 to 12g in the form of a decoction. The seed envelopes contain pectin, which is a haemostatic. The seeds, stripped of their envelope and charred, are applied externally for impetigo. Massage with heated young leaves is effective for treating bruises.
Source: Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (Institute of Materia Medica).
I was chatting with a chef the other evening and he told me you shouldn't cut the dough with a metal knife - rather use something plastic. Apparently it will raise better metal changes the chemical composition.
ReplyDelete`...and today I was picking the brain of my local organic baker. He told me every time the temperature changes he has to adjust his recipe, and to not have exact quantities is necessary because everything is affected by a change in temperature, and you must always adjust to fit.