Uses & Effectiveness
Insufficient Evidence for
- Diabetes. People who eat more cassava flour as part of their diet seem to have a lower risk for developing diabetes.
- Dehydration in people with diarrhea. Cassava salt solutions can be taken by children by mouth to treat mild to moderate dehydration caused by diarrhea. However, severe dehydration due to diarrhea causes low levels of electrolytes. Cassava salt solutions do not contain a significant amount of electrolytes. Therefore, these solutions do not seem suitable for treating severe dehydration due to diarrhea.
- Fatigue.
- Sepsis.
- To induce labor.
- Medical imaging.
- Other conditions.
More evidence is needed to rate the effectiveness of cassava for these uses.

