{"id":14086,"date":"2017-10-15T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/?p=3774\/"},"modified":"2017-10-15T00:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T00:00:44","slug":"arbol-de-chicozapote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/arbol-de-chicozapote\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1rbol de chicozapote"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Planta de la familia de las sapot\u00e1ceas cuyo nombre com\u00fan proviene del n\u00e1huatl <em>\u201cchictli\u201d<\/em>. Desde hace siglos esta goma ha sido utilizada por muchos pueblos americanos para mascar, ya que tiene un aroma y un sabor dulce por naturaleza.<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">En M\u00e9xico en particular fueron los mayas los que empezaron a extraer la resina del chicozapote, a trav\u00e9s de cortes superficiales en forma de Z sobre la corteza, es as\u00ed como la savia escurre lentamente en zigzag hasta una bolsa colocada en su base. Una vez recolectada se pone a hervir resultando una sustancia que al enfriarse tiene la consistencia de &#8220;hebras&#8221; o polvo que cuando se mastica adquiere una textura chiclosa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Con una altura aproximada de 30 metros, cada \u00e1rbol de chicozapote rinde de 3 a 5 kilos por cosecha y, si bien esta pr\u00e1ctica no los da\u00f1a -algunos pueden vivir hasta m\u00e1s de 300 a\u00f1os-, es necesario dejarlos descansar de 6 a 7 a\u00f1os antes de volver a extraerles la savia.<\/p>\n<p>Este \u00e1rbol a su vez tiene muchas propiedades curativas. Para la disenter\u00eda y la diarrea, se recomienda tomar la cocci\u00f3n o el macerado de la corteza como agua de uso, adem\u00e1s tiene la propiedad de bajar la fiebre. Como las semillas contienen resinas y grasas se emplean como diur\u00e9tico; para ello basta moler y mezclar con agua y az\u00facar 5 o 6 de ellas. En algunas zonas se hierven varias hojas que tomadas 3 veces al d\u00eda como t\u00e9 sirven para normalizar la presi\u00f3n alta; asimismo, se emplea una infusi\u00f3n preparada con varias semillas -1 taza al d\u00eda- para mitigar el dolor causado por piquete de alacr\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">El fruto del chicozapote es muy com\u00fan en las casas por ser dulce y nutritivo, y al comerlo su sabor es muy rico. Con \u00e9l se elaboran postres, mermeladas y otros productos comestibles, siendo objeto de comercio en los mercados regionales. Por otro lado, su madera posee una notable fuerza, durabilidad y dureza por eso se empleaba en la construcci\u00f3n de templos en la \u00e9poca prehisp\u00e1nica y a\u00fan hoy se sigue utilizando. Tambi\u00e9n sirve como le\u00f1a para los fogones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dentro de la <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/historia-de-puerto-morelos\/\">Historia de Puerto Morelos<\/a>\u00a0este \u00e1rbol es muy popular,\u00a0qui\u00e9n dio origen a la goma de mascar artificial que se consume el d\u00eda de hoy. <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/la-historia-del-chicle\/\">La historia del chicle en Puerto Morelos<\/a>\u00a0remonta a\u00a0fines del siglo XIX con la industralizaci\u00f3n y comercializaci\u00f3n.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planta de la familia de las sapot\u00e1ceas cuyo nombre com\u00fan proviene del n\u00e1huatl \u201cchictli\u201d. Desde hace siglos esta goma ha sido utilizada por muchos pueblos americanos para mascar, ya que tiene un aroma y un sabor dulce por naturaleza.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,94],"tags":[105,88,89,106,107,98],"class_list":["post-14086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historia","category-ruta-de-los-cenotes-living-travel","tag-arbol","tag-chicle","tag-chicleros","tag-dulce","tag-madera","tag-mayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovepm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}