Soursop (Annona muricata L)
Soursop plants originated from the U.S. mainland. Precisely Central America and northern South America. Soursop is a plant species included in the (family Annonaceae).
Fruit Soursop (Annona muricata L) is one of the very popular fruit in Indonesia, maybe some of you also have to eat the fruit soursop. But behind the slightly sour taste, it turns out this soursop fruit contains a tremendous benefit.
Soursop plants in Indonesia is spread across most regions. Are often met with sweet soursop acid, commonly referred to as local soursop. While a productive high yielding varieties, the weight of large fruit, and has a sweet taste is soursop Queen (derived from the Pelabuhan Ratu, West Java).
Soursop among rural communities, soursop fruit is believed to cure various diseases, there are even some people who believe the myth that the soursop fruit is one of the food of the gods, so to memetiknyapun should not be indiscriminate.
The spread of the efficacy of soursop fruit is up to the ears of the experts at Health Sciences Research Institute, and they conduct research, but the result is very surprising, besides being a remedy for various types of parasites / worms, lowers high blood pressure, anti-bacterial, anti fungal and normalize the system nerves are not good. Apparently soursop fruit is nutritious kill tumor / cancer. (Beyond Chemotherapy: New Cancer Killers, Safe as Milk Mothers published by Health Sciences Institute). Actually, the efficacy of this soursop fruit has long been known by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1976, was never published because the only reason for the interest of the investigation.
Some of the benefits of soursop and Formula:
- Back Pain. 20 soursop leaves, boiled with 5 cups water to boiling until tinggal3 glass, drink 1 a day 3 / 4 cup.
- Hemorrhoids. Soursop fruit is ripe. Squeeze to take water as much as 1 cup, and drink 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.
- Infant Diarrhoea. Soursop fruit is ripe. Soursop fruit is squeezed and filtered to take water, drenched diarrhea in infants between 2-3 tablespoons.
Soursop Fruit Benefits:
-Fruit is ripe soursop (100 grams) can meet the needs of 13% dietary fiber per day (eat fresh).
The content of vitamin C-high soursop fruit, both to enhance the immune system and slow the aging process.
Soursop Leaf Benefits:
Soursop leaves contain a substance-annonaceuos acetogenins that have the ability to kill cancer cells, especially colon cancer, prostate, lung, breast, and pancreas without damaging healthy cells.
-How to cultivate that is by taking 10 soursop leaves, washed and boiled in 3 cups of water. Allow up to 1 cup water. Drunk in the morning and afternoon.
-Based on information from various sources also mentioned that the leaves of the soursop bermafaat treat ulcers, back pain, eczema. Soursop soursop fruit and leaves is useful to treat liver disease, constipation, urine bladder pain, gall stones.