yellowroot

A small shrub with um... yellow roots and bark. Small drooping brown-purple flowers. Contains berberine, immune-stimulating antiinflammatory, anti-microbial, astringent. Supports liver- (jaundice, cirrhosis, bile, blood cleanser) Root tea used to help stomach, ulcers, menstrual disorders, diabetes, hypertension, cancer. uterine cramps.

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Ms Bray says she once left the salon with yellow roots

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Professor Peter Beyer from Freiberg University in Germany, together with researchers at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia studied a naturally arising variant of cassava with yellow roots in order to understand the synthesis of provitamin A carotenoids, dietary precursors of vitamin A.

Transgenic cassava roots could address vitamin A deficiency

I've heard various local interviewees say that manioc starch gets used as famine food, that it gets used to prepare highly prized party dishes, that the white-stemmed plants have the prized yellow roots, that, no, it's the yellow-stemmed plants that have the yellow roots, that the plant we're looking at is typical of a yellow-rooted plant but is unusually pale, and so on.

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