Plants of the Native Americans that changed the world
Every child, who has seen the Walt Disney movie Pocahontas, knows that the real gold of the Indians is corn. However, corn is not the only treasure that enriches the world’s agriculture. What are the most important fruits and vegetables that come from the Native Americans?
Corn
The Native Americans started to grow the plant about 5000 years ago. Not a lot of people may know this, but corn was used by the Native Americans not only for food, but also as medicine. It has diuretic, hypotensive and also hypoglycemic effects; aboriginal people also often drink corn tea, make a skin paste of it and as a cure for rheumatism. The modern medicine uses corn
forregulating high cholesterol and healing wounds.