Medicinal Benefits of Bilimbi

Bilimbi

Origin: Malaysia and Indonesia

Tree: height: up to 6m

Fruit: length: 5 cm

Diameter: 1-2 cm

Seasons: almost all year round

Bilimbi tree is quite attractive, with its short trunk dividing into many upright branches which have clusters of leaves, mainly at the tips. The flowers are small, deep red and have a long strong, sweet scent. The bilimbi fruit is narrow, oblong and has five shallow ridges running along its length. The fruit is crisp when unripe, turns from bright-green to yellowish-green, when ripe and falls to the ground. The outer skin is glossy, very thin and tender, and the flesh greenish-white, juicy and extremely sour. It has a few (about 6) flattened seeds about ¼ inch wide, smooth and brown.

Other Name:

• India : Bilimbi
• Indonesia: belimbing, besu
• Thailand: taling pling
• Philippines: kamias
• Haiti: blimblin
• Cuba: grosella china
• El Salvador and Nicaragua: mimbro
• Venezuela: vinagrillo
• Argentina: pepino de Indias
• France: cornichon des Indes

Nutritive Value per 100 g:

• Vitamin A: 0.035 mg
• Vitamin C: 15.5 mg
• Protein: 0.61 g
• Calcium: 3.4 mg
• Phosphorus: 11.1 mg
• Iron: 1.01 mg
• Thiamine: 0.010 mg
• Riboflavin: 0.026 mg
• Niacin: 0.302 mg

Medicinal Benefits:

• The juice is effective as eye drops (regarded as a magic curative).
• Decoction of leaves or the juice of the leaves, are often consumed as a cure for venereal disease.
• A leaf decoction is taken to relieve rectal inflammation.
• The fruit is given to children as a protection against coughs.
• A flower infusion is believed be effective against coughs and thrush.
• A leaf infusion is a remedy for coughs and is taken after childbirth as a tonic.
• The leaves are applied as poultice on itches, swellings of mumps and rheumatism, and on skin problems.
• The fruit and leaves are applied on bites of poisonous insect.
• Syrup made from Bilimbi fruit is taken as a cure for fever and inflammation and to stop rectal bleeding and alleviate internal hemorrhoids.

Culinary uses:

• The juice of the fruit is popular for making cooling and refreshing drinks similar to lemonade.
• The most common use for the fruits is a flavoring for fish and meat dishes. It also use for pickling and is substituted for mango in chutney. To reduce acidity, it may be first pricked and soaked in water overnight, or soaked in salted water
  
  for a shorter time; then it is boiled with much sugar to make a jam or an acid jelly. A quicker pickle is made by putting the fruits and salt into boiling water. This can be kept only 4 to 5 days.

Other uses:

• The high acid content of the juice makes it a good agent for removing stains from the skin.
• The juice is useful for bleaching stains from white clothe, and also tarnish from brass.
• In olden days it was used for cleaning the blade of a keris, the short, wavy dagger of the Malays.
• The juice serves as mordants (serves to fix color) in the preparation of an orange dye for silk fabrics.

Medicinal Benefits of Soursop

Origin: Tropical America
Family: Annonaceae
Botanical Name: Annona muricata
Varieties: about nine, differing in shape, texture in flavors
Season: almost all the year round
Tree: height; up to 10 m
Fruit: length:12 - 24 cm; weight: 400 - 800 gm

Soursop is a fruit that has the most delectable flavor. The soursop is a large fruit of a small, fast-growing tree. The fruit is picked from the tree before it has fully ripened as it will be badly bruised if allowed to ripen and fall. The fruit is mature and is ready for eating when it feels slightly soft and is light green externally. The skin is thin and is covered with conical nibs. The white, pulpy flesh, which contains juice, is peppered with small shiny, black inedible seeds, and has a pleasant, sweet-acidic taste. As it is rather fibrous, its squeezed juice makes a better choice, and has, in fact become more popular than the fresh fruit as such. Soursop has few seedless varieties, but they are rare, and tend to have fibrous flesh.

Medicinal Benefits: Soursop is not only a delicious and healthy fruit but it is use medicinally to treat illness ranging from stomach ailments to worms.

• The seeds, which have emetic properties, can be used in the treatment of vomiting.
• The leaf decoction is effective for head lice and bedbugs.
• The crushed fresh leaves can be applied on skin eruptions to promote healing.
• The juice of the fruit can be taken orally as a remedy for urethritis, haematuria and liver ailments.
• The juice when taken when fasting, it is believed to relieve liver ailments and leprosy.
• To speed the healing of wounds, the flesh of the soursop is applied as a poultice unchanged for 3 days.
• A decoction of the young shoots or leaves is regarded as a remedy for gall bladder trouble, as well as coughs, catarrh, diarrhea, dysentery, fever and indigestion.
• Mashed leaves are used as a poultice to alleviate eczema and other skin problems and rheumatism.
• The root bark is use as an antidote for poisoning.
• Soursop flowers are believed to alleviate catarrh.
• Decoction of leaves used as compresses for inflammation and swollen feet.

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