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Edible and Useful Plants of the Southwest: Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona


"The sap pools into the basin and can be drawn off daily for a cool, nutritious drink called aguamiel."

"For Mexicanos living in isolated areas where potable water is scarce or nonexistent, aguamiel remains a valued source of water and nutrition"


The Mexican people use the flowering stalks of large agaves as building materials for roofing and walls and fishing poles...

 The juice of the leaf is used as an insecticide.



The Apaches used the heart and the flower stalk of the mescals for food. 
When brown and soft, the hearts are ready for eating. The Apaches scooped the soft pulp out of the center and chewed the fibrous sections to extract the sweet nutritious juice, spitting out the fibers. They often pressed the juice out of the pulp to form dry cakes for storage and used the sweet juice for making syrups, candies and cough medicine.

The Apaches also used the liquid as a brown face paint and waterproofing material for a basket.

recipe;             

Good potential as a biofuel crop in areas with low rainfall.
Recently, researches on agaves in other parts of the world have isolated steroidal saponins with potential for use in medicine as anti-inflammatories.



But lechuguila acts as an important soil stabilizer in West Texas, an area that has been grazed by livestock for over one hundred years.

 They used the toxic juice pounded from the leaves as an arrow poison, a fish stupefier, a medicine, and a soap.

 They extracted the leaf fibers for cordage for bowstrings and wove them into nets, baskets, mats, sandals, blankets, and cloth.

 Ixtle fibers are sold for making rope, twine, carpet pads, rugs, and saddle blanket.

 Lechuguilla provides high-quality bristles for industrial and household brushes.

The ixtleros are use the leaf pulp and spines that remain after extracting the fibers as an abrasive soap. They also pound out the roots and soak them in water for laundry soap and shampoo.

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