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| Traditional Medicine (Soursop) |
Common Name : Fruit soursop / tailings
Latin name : Annona muricata L.
Other Name :
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Nutrition soursop fruit is as follows :
Soursop fruit consists of 67.5 percent pulp, 20 percent of the fruit skin, fruit seeds 8.5 percent and 4 percent of the fruit core.
After water, nutrients that most of soursop are carbohydrates. One type of carbohydrate on soursop fruit is a reducing sugar (glucose and fructose) with levels of 81.9 to 93.6 percent of the total sugar content.
Soursop fruit contains very little fat (0.3 g/100 g), so it is good for health. Sour taste in soursop derived from non-volatile organic acids, particularly malic acid, citric acid, and acid isositrat.
Vitamins are the most dominant in soursop fruit is vitamin C, which is about 20 mg per 100 grams of fruit flesh. Requirement of vitamin C per person per day (ie 60 mg), had to be met only by consuming 300 grams of meat soursop fruit. Vitamin C content high enough on soursop is a very good antioxidant to increase endurance and slow the aging process (stay young).
Minerals which are dominant enough phosphorus and calcium, respectively by 27 and 14 mg/100 g. Both these minerals essential for bone formation, so useful to build strong bones as well as inhibit osteoporosis.
In addition to nutritional components, soursop fruit is also very rich in non-nutritional components. One of them is contain lots of fiber food (dietary fiber), which reached 3.3 g / 100 g pulp.
Consumption of 100 g of fruit flesh to fulfill 13 percent of daily needs of food fiber. Soursop fruit is a fruit that is rich in phytochemical compounds, so as to ensure that the fruits were so many health benefits.
Phytochemical compounds they are determined to have health giving properties, though not all scientifically proven. Various benefits of soursop for therapy include treatment of gallstones, antisembelit, uric acid, and increases appetite. In addition, the fiber content also serves to facilitate digestion, especially for the treatment of constipation (difficult bowel movements).
Fruit juice (juice), soursop in the digestive system
Studies at Purdue University show that the Graviola leaves are able to effectively kill cancer cells, particularly cancer cells: prostate, pancreas, and lung.
How to traditional treatment with soursop :
1. Cancer Treatment.
10 sheets of old distinguished soursop leaves boiled in 3 cups of water until the remaining 1 cup,
2 times per day drinking for 2 weeks. Soursop leaves are said to nature such as chemotherapy,
even more severe because soursop leaves only kill cells that grow abnormally and let the cells
grow normally.
2. Lumbago.
20 pieces soursop leaves, boiled with 5 cups water to boil until tinggal3 glass, drink 1 time
per day 3 / 4 cup.
3. Infant Diarrhea.
Soursop fruit is ripe. Soursop fruit is squeezed and filtered to take water, and drunk diarrhea in
infants between 2-3 tablespoons.
4. Hemorrhoid.
Soursop fruit is ripe. Squeeze to take water as much as 1 cup, drink 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.
5. Ulcers.
Soursop leaves are still young enough, stick in places affected by ulcers.
6. Anyang-anyangen.
Half-ripe soursop and sugar to taste. Soursop peeled and boiled with sugar, together with 2 cups of
water, filtered and drunk.
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7. Urine Bladder Pain.
Half-ripe fruit soursop, sugar and salt to taste. All the material is made compote cooked. Eaten plain,
and performed regularly every day for 1 week in a row.
8. Liver Disease. Fasting other food, only drink soursop juice for 1 week
9. Eczema and rheumatism. Soursop leaf Mash until smooth and paste on the affected part
10.Soursop flowers can be used to cure cataracts, but I have not know how it is used. If I've got the
recipe I will add here.
