Spinach is a vegetable and medicinal plant , annual , originally from Asia Minor. The plant has a fusiform root and stem straight , not too go 30 cm high .

Spinach leaves – the edible , nutritious and medicinal – have long petiole , arrow and ovate -oblong , fleshy and green are closed . Spinach leaves are used in the kitchen for everyday consumption .
Spinach is employed as a mild laxative , as depurative , anemic , hypotensive , nutritive , remineralizing , aphrodisiac and hypoglycemic .