Cashew or monkey that does not resemble a monkey actually is not included in the family of cashew trees (myrtaceae) this tree is closer to his kinship with the famous mango (anacardiaceae tribe) of this plant is actually not the fruit but the seeds called cashew nuts , but this plant also does not include the family of beans (febaceae) quoted from efeknyasehat.com, -.
Fruit cashew cashew is rarely used as a commodity, because it is not so sweet and often mixed sour taste even sepat, but the original fruit is cashew nuts, has a good export commodity quoted from bisnisukm.com, - but can be processed as a snack, as well as an important ingredient in the food industry is usually used to decorate the cake or chocolate of the young leaves used as raw vegetables or steamed.
In medicine, almost all parts of cashew plants are efficacious as a drug, its ability as a drug has been used in more than 23 countries, guava monkey and even entered the list of priorities WHO as the most widely used medicinal plant in the world, guava monkeys have efficacy in improving the ability of the brain and restore disturbed brain function, memory loss, work fatigue, sexual disorders, hallucinations, memory retardation and so forth.
The leaf part is commonly used as an external medicine to overcome skin diseases or burns, the juice of the skin of the fruit in the form of oil can also be used to treat warts or borokb part of the root of cashew monkeys used to treat diarrhea, mouthwash to cope with canker sores and get rid of acne.