Cashew

Cassavium pomiferum

Names	History	Constituents	Uses
Sempecardium, anacardium,Oriental Cashew,A. Occidentale	grows in Jamaica, West Indies.other tropical parts of the Americas. Its rose-colored pannicales produce a fleshy receptacle,called an apple. At the end of the apple there grows a kidney shaped nut.	Anarcadic acid, yellow oleaginous liquid, Cardol,protein, niacin, magnesium, iron.	nut or kernel: nutritive;protein,bark: former use for fever from Malaria. fresh nutshell juice: removal of warts and corns, ringworms,cancerous ulcers, elephantiasis, in beauty treatment, to remove a skin layer from facial tissue. in fruit juice, wine or spirit,also of use for dropsy and uterine complaints. Milky secretion from inceised tree: indelible marking ink nut: non-drying lubricant oil. Gum: Used like gum Arabic since it is similar -(Cadjii gum), a gum which washes books to provide a repellant to moths and ants. Used as a hair dye, but not with acids, acid salts or acetate of lead. A powerful diuretic. Male potency older broken nuts can be mixed with Madeira Wine for flavouring. cocoa and nuts produce good chocolate.

Contra-Indications
Between its inner and outer shell there is a  flammable, caustic oil,whichcould raise painful skin bisters if handled.

Do these table colours remind you of the Mynah bird? bet they eat lots of cashews!! Most of Northdays' properties tables are coloured according to my artists' perception of their chemistry, but the cashews' aura was so much the depth of these colours that I have had to issue them as quarter tone..

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