Native women in Guadeloupe consider avocado tree as the universal remedy. Buds and leaves are recommended to fight decline due to lengthy fevers. A long time before the Spanish conquistadors arrived, Amerindians and Aztecs from South and Central America already commonly used the flesh of avocado pear both for food and to protect their skin from parching winds. They applied it on their hair to make it grow. They also used to consider that the flesh was a first-rate sexual stimulant and used to make ointments aimed at delaying old age.
Avocado pear is an excellent food, rich in vitamins and very easy to digest.
It is thus very precious for people under a restoring diet. Introduced in France about 30 years ago, there are nowadays several varieties of avocado pears on markets, from the tiny one to the very big and tasteful one from Brazil, it is quite commonly eaten. It was first referred to in 1519. In France, avocado pear is registered among salty foods, whereas in Brazil it is eaten for pudding with sugar and lemon or again with sugar, sherry and cashew nut. Avocado pear is the fruit of avocado tree the Aztecs used to call tree with testicles.