Coffee

Food and health uses

• Beans and fleshy outer layer are edible.

• Coffee beans (seeds) are used to make coffee and other coffee-based beverages and used as a flavoring for other foods like deserts, candies, and liqueurs.

• Coffee is a folk remedy for asthma, atropine-poisoning, fever, flu, headache, jaundice, malaria, migraine, narcosis, nephrosis, opium-poisoning, sores, vertigo, pulmonary problems, and fainting.

• Reported to be analgesic, anaphrodisiac, anorexic, antidotal, cardiotonic, CNS-stimulant, counterirritant, diuretic, hypnotic, lactagogue, nervine, stimulant.

More information

• Purdue University

• Wikipedia

• University of Hawaii

• National Tropical Botanic Garden

• Hawaiian Plants and Tropical Flowers