Medicinal Plants and Their Use of Soursop

Medicinal plants and their use of soursop fruit and leaves, this tree is often called by other names that Dutch jackfruit, durian Netherlands with the Latin name Annona muricata L. with

scientific classification

Kingdom         : Plantae

(not included) Magnoliids

Order : Magnoliales

Family : Annonaceae

Genus : Annona

Species : A. muricata

Binomial name : Annona muricata L. 

Of soursop tree is often used as a natural remedy is the leaves and fruit, fruit green skin and white flesh, sweet taste sour, but the fruit is not a true fruit fruit collection huddled in the leather.

Soursop fruit is often made as a fresh drink with fruit taste sour-sweet sam, fruit contains some substances that are useful to humans such as carbohydrates, especially fructose, some vitamins such as vitamin C, vitamin B1, B2 which is quite a lot. be careful with stones as they contain toxic to the human body they contain natural insecticides are not good for human consumption and people can use the seeds of soursop as midges.

Some compounds contained by the soursop tree is acetogenins, annocatacin, annocatalin, annohexocin, annonacin, annomuricin, anomurine, anonol, caclourine, gentisic acid, gigantetronin, linoleic acid, muricapentocin, these compounds not only dikansung in the fruit but the leaves and stems were contains several substances that are beneficial to human health.

Benefit and use of the fruit and leaves of soursop

Some universities have done extensive research on the efficacy of these medicinal plants and their uses, it turns dikatahui results of research experts and scientific sources that the soursop leaves and fruit can cure cancer and 10,000-fold better than you do chemotherapy, extract from the leaves of the soursop able slow the growth of cancer cells in our body.

One of the compounds in the leaves and fruit soursop was efficacious and highly selective to choose the bad cells and not attack and kill healthy cells, the presence of these compounds selective efficacy of medicinal plants is studied further in order to be drugs for colon cancer, lung, prostate, breast and pancreatic cancer. Soursop leaves have a target that is effective and can kill malignant cells for 12 types of cancer.

Some of the benefits of soursop leaves are as follows:

- Increase Stamina in the body.

- Increase in energy.

- Helps boost the immune system and avoid deadly infections.

- Prevent free radicals.

- Slowing the growth of cancer cells.

- Attacking cancer cells naturally without any side effects that damage.

With the benefit of some of the traditional ingredients that had been there since time immemorial by our ancestors soursop leaves and fruit are often used for home remedies that can cure some diseases. I will try to present some herbs to treat some diseases.

Some of the properties of medicinal plants and its use as follows

cancer treatment: you reap some soursop leaves roughly 15-20 soursop leaves and cleaned you can play a mix 10 soursop leaves only add 3 cups water and boiled until the water leaving approximately 1 cup, drink boiled water before 2 times a day for 2 weeks. The herb can only be used within one day to the next day you boil back and do like the way that has been mentioned.

treatment of pain: take 20 soursop leaves add 5 cups of water and boil until boiling leaving about 3 cups, taken once a day ¾ cup.

treatment for diarrhea in infants: Fruit ripe soursop. Soursop fruit is squeezed and filtered to take water, drunk diarrhea in infants 2-3 tablespoons.

for hemorrhoid disease you can create and consume soursop fruit juice 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.

In addition to cancer soursop fruit and leaves are also efficacious for antibacterial, antifungal (fungi), effective against various types of parasites / worms, lowers high blood pressure, depression, stress, and normalize the nervous system that are less good. ancient indian tribes even utilize the bark, roots, leaves and flesh, they believe in the efficacy of these medicinal plants to cure heart disease, asthma, liver problems (liver) and rheumatism. 

Privilege in the leaves of this plant is located on the extraordinary. As already known soursop leaf is extraordinary that is able to inhibit the growth of bacteria, helps inhibit gene mutations, helps inhibit the growth of viruses, helps inhibit the development of the parasite, helps inhibit the growth of tumors, help merileksasi muscle, as an anti-seizure, help relieve pain, able to suppress inflammation, lowering blood sugar levels, reduce fever, high blood pressure, strengthens the nerves, helps nourish the heart, helps increase milk production in the pregnant, helps dilate blood vessels, kills worms parasait, reduce stress, strengthen digestion and increase appetite. (quoted from Wikipedia 19/12)

Soursop leaf extract is now widely used for herbal medicine and has a lot in production into modern medicine, and as herbal remedies that are sought after by many people. This information may also be useful to increase knowledge and be a good reference for you who read.