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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Guyabano or Soursop

The Soursop is known for its fruit and moist pet food of Filipinos. It has green skin and sharp point, while the flesh was white and it was very moist. The tree has a modest size and the leaves are smooth. It can grow in many places in the world, particularly in South America and Southeast Asia including the Philippines.


History
Since ancient times, used the different parts such as soursop stems, leaves, roots, fruits and seeds of the fruit in the treatment of all types of diseases. Including the use of different methods of treatment are the native Indians of South America as a response to heart disease, asthma, liver problems and arthritis.

WHAT ARE THE NUTRIENTS AND CHEMICALS THAT CAN GET INTO GUYABANO?

The different parts of the soursop plants can capture a wide variety of chemicals and substances that may have health benefits:

  • The main substances contained soursop are tannin's, cardiac glycosides and steroids
  • The leaves are sources of oil; myricyl alcohol, sitosterol, and fatty acids such as oleic, linoleic, and stearic acids. It also has lignoceric acid and anolol
  • The result has saccharose, dextrose, and levulose
  • The bark has acetogenin, solamin and triterpenoids, stigmasterol and sitosterol
  • The seeds contain lactones, annomonicina, annomontacina, annonacina, annomuricatina, annonacinona, javoricina
  • The juice and pulp of the fruit has more carbohydrates, fiber, retinol, ascorbic acid, flavonoids, and tannins.


WHAT PART OF THE PLANT USED AS MEDICINE, AND HOW ARE THEY USED?

Can be used as medicine some parts of the plant such as:

  • Leaves. The leaves are often boiled and Feeding the sick. It can also grind and tap to certain conditions in the body.
  • Flowers. The flowers can be boiled and drink for people who are sick.
  • Fruit. The raw fruit is usually use as medicine. The broth was ripe fruits are also effective in certain conditions. You can also use the flesh of soursop as a poultice to certain conditions in the body.

WHAT ARE THE DISEASES THAT CAN BE TREATED GUYABANO?

1. Diarrhea. The raw soursop fruit can be used for conditions of diarrhea. You can also use the juice of ripe fruit soursop.
2. Lisa and lice. Washing the affected head lice and lice with boiled soursop leaves. Effective use of powdered seed soursop.
3. Swelling of the feet. Tapping will be enormously cleansing or decoction of the leaves to ease the swelling of your feet.
4. Eczema. The inflammation of the skin can also help mitigate the daub of crushed leaves of the soursop.
5. Rheumatism. Effective for sore joints anointing from the soursop leaves and unripe fruit.
6. Diabetes. Useful for diabetes decoction of the roots, bark and leaves of the soursop.
7. Cancer. Some studies conducted that prove the effectiveness of fruit juice soursop, as the decoction in preventing the spread of cancer cells in the body.
8. Cold. The extreme runny nose can be treated by drinking the decoction of the leaves of soursop. You can also use the flower for the same effect.

How to cut and eat Soursop?
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