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Graviola or Guanabana or Soursop or Sirsak or Dutch Durian?
GRAVIOLA
So many names have been called for this fruit. In Brazil, they call it Graviola, in Spain they call it Guanabana, Soursop in English, Sirsak in Indonesia and Durian Belanda or Dutch Durian in Malaysia. So, why not taking the name from the place where this fruit is first found.....in Brazil where they call it Graviola trees ( Graviola Synthesis ), scientifically known as Annona Muricata from Annona family of trees.
The fruits, seeds, stems and roots of Graviola are very rich with materials for the benefit of both traditional and modern medicine. The fruit is a soft-skinned prickly rare but not sharp. The shining skin of the fruit indicates that it is ripe and ready to be plucked.
The flesh is in clean white color, soft, watering, and sweet and sour taste, so delicious for those who have frequently taken it.
The ripe one can be eaten straight away freshly or blended for its juice.
Here are some facts about how people have used Graviola for health purposes throughout the World :-
1) In Amazon where this tree was first found, the residents and local tribes used the bark, roots and leaves to cure diabetes apart from enjoying the fruits for medical nutritions.
2) People in Andes, Peru have powdered the leaves of Graviola as tea to sore throats. They even crushed the seeds into powder to kill parasites in human body such as worms.
3) Aborigines, local tribes and natives of Guyana powdered Graviola leaves as tea and crushed the bark into powder to make a tonic drinks for the purposes of solving the problems related to the heart and liver disease. The women enjoyed the fruits and drank the juice to increase breast milk production and to avoid tension after giving birth to their babies.
4) In Jamaica, Haiti and West Indies the fruits are processed widely to be a drinking juice for the purpose of curing fever, killing worms in stomach and as diarrhea medicine. The bark is believed to help cure heart disease, cough, malaria and stomach ulcers.
5) In some places, oils are extracted from leaves or young fruit, then mixed with olive oil for external use to solve problems of sore joints, gout and sore limbs.
Advanced studies made at University of Hawaii revealed that the fruit of Graviola is capable to treat and prevent cancer and also good for couples to nourish offspring. The materials contained in the fruits can be used as anti bacteria, anti cancer, anti ulcer, anti tumor, astringent and and neurological disease. They discovered that the fruits contained ingredients of Amyloid, Citric Acid, Fructose, Manganese, Sucrose, Reticuline and Tanin.
The studies also revealed that the medical ingredients found in Graviola are useful as follows :-
1) attacking cancer and tumor cells naturally but effectively and efficiently cure the disease without side effects like the one using chemotherapy.
2) protecting self immunity.
3) increasing energy and help the patients to become stronger, healthier and better appearance during treatment.
4) effectively chosen the target to kill bad cells from more than 10 kinds of different cancer disease, which among others are identified clinically as ulcers, breasts, prostates, lungs and pancreas.
5) unlike chemotherapy it only kills bad cells not the good one.
6) it is 10,000 times stronger than Terramycin and/or chemotherapy.
This article is not the first one telling about Graviola. Lots of articles and writings have been printed or posted in media or blogs. But one thing for sure, all of the articles and writings were telling and reminding the same stories about the best of Graviola and so much benefits we can derive of from it.
The more the articles are written and posted, the more the knowledge can be shared together for common benefit, mutual health and happiness of mankind.
May the God bless you and cure your disease and illness.
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