Small Shallot

Nowadays people always pay attention to and try to reach for ‘material’ more than normal things that are surrounded by
whether nature or environment. It would be great if everyone
realizes its benefit turns to help save natural resources and
make the most of its usefulness.

To talk about small shallot, I believe that no one don’t know

anything about this plant since it’s popular ingredient for Thai food.
Most chefs whether male or female use small shallot

as a part of the dish because it can make the dish tastier,

deodorize fishy smell and be an ingredient in many curry paste.
To make spicy meal such as Tom Yum or spicy salad,

small shallot is a must ingredient or even some dessert.
The fast made-to-order chili paste in a weekly market also can’t

miss roasted shallot to be mix with other spices for good

smell and better taste. Nevertheless, the benefits of shallot

is a lot such as healing gastritis, backache, waist ache, and

dysmenorrheal. Eating too much of shallot has no negative

effect to body but a supplement.

Apart from being the supplement that people don’t pay

attention to, the shallot can heal the skin allergy in children

by boiling the shallot with water and mix with bathing water

for children. Bathing with this shallot water for 3-4 weeks, the

symptom will be relief and gradually better. You could see

that the shallot is not only a supplement but also a medicine.

Shallot



Plao Luang or Plao Yai

Plao Luang or Plao Yai or Por, science name: Croton

roxburghii N.P.Balakr, family: Euphorbiaceae. Plao Yai is a

small bush tree; its grey bark is quite smooth, simple leaves

are circled around branches. The leaf is oblong or ovate

while it’s top is curved. The part attached with the upper end

of petiole has two nodes at both sides. It has inflorescence

flower that will bloom at upper end of branch; the color is

green yellow. Its fruits have three bunches. Propagation

can be done by root cutting. Its root can heal skin disease;

a bark helps relief fever, hepatitis, arthritis, food digestion;

flower helps to expel worms; leaf can cure skin disease,

gastritis; and seed is a vermifuge. Plao Yai is distributed

around Thailand’s North Eastern found in high ground while

in foreign countries could be found in India, Burma, Laos,

and Vietnam. To see benefits of every part of Plao Yai can

imply that to take care and save the natural resources like

water, tree, and forest can be huge benefits of us all.

Plao Luang



Useful of Cultivated banana

 Cultivated banana (Kluai Namwa)

Kluai Namwa

In Thailand there are plenty types of banana. The type we

are talking about is called ‘Kluai Namwa’. It can be grown

in almost every region in Thailand. Some might grow for

consumption but some has a banana farm that can help

one earn a good living. Former local north eastern people

knew how to make use of Kluai Namwa for a baby by

wrapping smash rice and banana by banana leaves and

grilled and feed the infant with this wonderful meal without

any payment since normally people in the countryside have

some space like a backyard for growing fruits and vegetable

for consuming therefore banana and other vegetable are

grown.

Banana leaves in Thailand are generally used for wrapping

and packing things such as being dessert package. It is a

folk wisdom of Thailand as well as an environmental friendly

idea. It also can be used for Thai dessert package like

Khanom Tien and Khao Tom

Khanom Tien and Khao Tom – a kind of Thai dessert that

the north eastern people always make; or dry it in sunlight

and cut into small pieces about 1.5 – 3 inches along the

length of banana leaves in order to make a local cigarette.

Moreover banana’s root can be medicine; the inner most

of banana’s tree or what people called ‘yuak’ or banana

Yuak(หยวกกล้วย)

stalk can make delicious meal. The ‘yuak’ will be cut in

plates, mix with spring onion, green lettuce and fermented

rice and leave it for a few days then eat it with sticky rice or

Grilled fish

grilled fish.

The taste of it is quite sour however this is one of

yummy and healthy meal of north eastern people’s recipe.

Additionally Kluai Namwa has medicinal quality. An under

ripe banana contains much potassium. A person who has

a diarrhea will loose much of this substance so eating Kluai

Namwa can help gain potassium in some certain extent.

The ripe banana has various necessary nutrients for body

such as in those who has gastritis, the ripe banana could

help coat the stomach by thinly slicing unripe banana, dry in

sunlight, smash into flour and eat in one tablespoon and mix

with warm water to drink.







In addition, Kluai Namwa has commercial advantage like



making different kinds of products such as banana in

coconut milk, fried banana, honey baked banana, banana

chips or an ingredient in a cake. Another benefit of Kluai



Namwa that people might ignore is its peel. Most people

throw banana peel away when it’s no use. Actually they

could be mixed together to make composting and in case of

some lady who has problem with cracked heel, an inner part

of banana peel can heal this by applying it on the cracked

heel for 3-4 days; the cracked heel will begin to be even and

soft, the dead skin will be gradually removed. However it is

restricted to apply on the face since the skin will be damage

and it will turn to be cracked instead. It is clear that banana

could be both a supplement and medicine.