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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"steemchurch",<br>"author":"yridelys",<br>"permlink":"tobacco",<br>"title":"Tobacco",<br>"body":"The tobacco plant belongs to the genus Nicotiana,<br> the botanical family of the Solanaceae. This plant has large leaves and beautiful flowers,<br> in addition to a great height,<br> equal to or greater than that of an adult person.\nThis plant is the only one that synthesizes and then preserves in its dry leaves a powerful alkaloid that receives the name of nicotine and that gives the name to its vegetal genus.\n\n![_20180209_214410.JPG (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmWjM4VpSsqJ8Sk9v25brehAXA5JguZxytVTtaRMxPw6zM\/_20180209_214410.JPG)\n\nThe Nicotiana tabacum plant is native to the Andean highlands and spread throughout the continent reaching the Caribbean between 2,<br>500 and 3,<br>000 years before Christ. The indigenous populations had already had contacts with tobacco before the arrival of Columbus and used it in a more or less intense relationship. In this sense,<br> there are sculptures and pre-Columbian paintings that represent characters in some action related to tobacco.\n\nThe first tobacco crops were made,<br> by the Spaniards,<br> in the early sixteenth century,<br> in the territory of the island of Cuba,<br> acquiring its cultivation a rapid development that took it in less than a century from the lands of America to Europe,<br> Asia ( it is introduced by the Portuguese and its cultivation begins in the seventeenth century,<br> especially in Japan and the Philippines) and Africa (east coast,<br> Madagascar and later in Egypt and Morocco). Its cultivation and commercialization was subject to regulation by the countries,<br> through monopolization in some cases and with the establishment of taxes that tax their production or consumption in others.\n\n![_20180211_135540.JPG (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmadX7GjQoymhcBbFP6KUxJ6sRZSmZ3bMZyJKXGajqRULa\/_20180211_135540.JPG)\n\nThe seeds of the tobacco are very tiny and they are sown,<br> generally,<br> in seedbeds (seedbeds) treated with great care,<br> in order to eliminate all the harmful plagues of the ground. The small plants move,<br> arranging them in rows on small mounds,<br> and the details of the crop vary in the different zones and according to the type of plant. The leaves are the \"nutrient factories\" of the plant,<br> which distribute it to the remaining parts,<br> including fruit and flowers. As the leaves are the usable part of the plant,<br> the farmer has to eliminate the flowers and lateral shoots,<br> in order to obtain large leaves of good quality,<br> leaving,<br> in general,<br> ten to twenty leaves per plant.\n\nWhen the leaves are collected,<br> they have a high moisture content and are not suitable for smoking,<br> so the immediate operation is curing. The curing consists in drying the leaf,<br> so that it is preserved and is suitable for its subsequent manufacture,<br> giving rise to a series of chemical changes in the tobacco leaf.\n\nIn this stage,<br> the color of the leaf is yellow gold or orange,<br> the ventilation is increased considerably and the temperature rises up to about 600 C \u00b0. During the next eighteen hours,<br> in order to fix the color.\n\n![_20180211_135523.JPG (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmZ1ojtyLGd5DzGH7RnuUqFdU3RdSxVnkTgBSqWf86gWd2\/_20180211_135523.JPG)\n\nThe healthiest way to take advantage of the qualities of this plant is to chew it or use it in poultices as well as juice extraction. It is not advised to inhale or smoke tobacco because of its negative long-term health consequences. The tobacco plant has some diuretic,<br> emetic,<br> vermifuge,<br> sedative medicinal properties. The tobacco plant can be used externally to treat hemorrhoids,<br> skin conditions,<br> bumps,<br> bruises,<br> rheumatism,<br> favors the elimination of fluids,<br> stimulates salivary secretion,<br> neuralgia,<br> worms and intestinal parasites.\n\n![_20180211_140750.JPG (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmW6nrTmadWytqEvDFPGwsu4EZQeWi4TQCvJWn6TesiUJF\/_20180211_140750.JPG)\n\nSmoking tobacco eliminates nicotine and this is a toxic substance that produces with the progressive use in the smoker heart problems,<br> respiratory,<br> cancer,<br> digestive,<br> vascular disorders among many other diseases. These are just some of the consequences it produces on health.",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"communitynews\",<br>\"agriculture\",<br>\"nature\",<br>\"steemchurch\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmWjM4VpSsqJ8Sk9v25brehAXA5JguZxytVTtaRMxPw6zM\/_20180209_214410.JPG\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmadX7GjQoymhcBbFP6KUxJ6sRZSmZ3bMZyJKXGajqRULa\/_20180211_135540.JPG\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmZ1ojtyLGd5DzGH7RnuUqFdU3RdSxVnkTgBSqWf86gWd2\/_20180211_135523.JPG\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmW6nrTmadWytqEvDFPGwsu4EZQeWi4TQCvJWn6TesiUJF\/_20180211_140750.JPG\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
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