Soursop has the latin name Annona muricata L and comes from the family Annonaceae. Soursop plants from the Caribbean, Central America and South America. Soursop has been called different in every region in Indonesia. For example, people refer to it as Jackfruit Walanda Sundanese, Javanese people call Jackfruit Landa, while the Minang people call it by Duriana Betawi.
Soursop has a fruit with a refreshing sweet and sour taste. Besides consumed like other fruits, soursop fruit is also often used as a traditional medicine, as well as leaves, seeds and roots. Not surprisingly, in recent years, soursop fruit becomes very popular, like the mangosteen fruit.
Content of Compound Fruit Soursop
Not without reason, if fruit and soursop leaves used as material for alternative medicine. This is because the content of the compounds contained in it is very beneficial for health.
1. Fiber
Soursop contains a lot of fiber to facilitate digestion and bowel movements, and can help control cholesterol levels. In addition, this fruit can also help you control your appetite and weight control.
2. Carbohydrates
A cup of soursop contains nearly 38 grams of carbohydrates, which is the body's main energy source. Your daily carbohydrate intake should reach 45-65 percent of calories the body, which is 225-325 grams per day for a 2,000 calorie diet. In addition, the type of carbohydrate contained in the fruit are much healthier than those found in soda or baking, because it can trigger a rise in blood sugar.
3. Potassium
Soursop is a healthy food that can increase potassium intake for your body. Potassium is essential for the body because it helps the muscles, bones contraction, digestion and regulate blood pressure levels healthy.
4. Vitamin C
Soursop fruit is very rich in vitamin C. Women should ensure adequate intake of 75 mg of vitamin C per day, while the men about 90 mg per day. Vitamin C plays an important role in the immune system and helps the body fight disease, including skin damage, and heal wounds. In addition, vitamin C is also considered as an antioxidant that can fight free radical damage.
Content of Compound Fruit Soursop
Not without reason, if fruit and soursop leaves used as material for alternative medicine. This is because the content of the compounds contained in it is very beneficial for health.
1. Fiber
Soursop contains a lot of fiber to facilitate digestion and bowel movements, and can help control cholesterol levels. In addition, this fruit can also help you control your appetite and weight control.
2. Carbohydrates
A cup of soursop contains nearly 38 grams of carbohydrates, which is the body's main energy source. Your daily carbohydrate intake should reach 45-65 percent of calories the body, which is 225-325 grams per day for a 2,000 calorie diet. In addition, the type of carbohydrate contained in the fruit are much healthier than those found in soda or baking, because it can trigger a rise in blood sugar.
3. Potassium
Soursop is a healthy food that can increase potassium intake for your body. Potassium is essential for the body because it helps the muscles, bones contraction, digestion and regulate blood pressure levels healthy.
4. Vitamin C
Soursop fruit is very rich in vitamin C. Women should ensure adequate intake of 75 mg of vitamin C per day, while the men about 90 mg per day. Vitamin C plays an important role in the immune system and helps the body fight disease, including skin damage, and heal wounds. In addition, vitamin C is also considered as an antioxidant that can fight free radical damage.
5. Water
A cup of soursop contains nearly 183 grams of water. According to MayoClinic.com, most people need 8-9 glasses of water every day. Fruits with high water content, including soursop, can help prevent dehydration.
6. Phosphorus and Calcium
Minerals which are dominant enough phosphorus and calcium, respectively by 27 and 14 mg per 100 grams of fruit soursop. Both minerals are essential for the formation of bone mass, so it is useful to form strong bones and prevent osteoporosis.
7. FatSoursop 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.
Benefits of Soursop Leaf
A cup of soursop contains nearly 183 grams of water. According to MayoClinic.com, most people need 8-9 glasses of water every day. Fruits with high water content, including soursop, can help prevent dehydration.
6. Phosphorus and Calcium
Minerals which are dominant enough phosphorus and calcium, respectively by 27 and 14 mg per 100 grams of fruit soursop. Both minerals are essential for the formation of bone mass, so it is useful to form strong bones and prevent osteoporosis.
7. FatSoursop 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.
Benefits of Soursop Leaf
1. Prevent Cancer
Soursop leaves can increase endurance of various attacks statement,. Soursop leaves can also kill cancer cells more quickly and safely than have to do chemotherapy which has many side effects and the cost is also very expensive.
Take 10 to treat cancer soursop leaves are old and in good condition. Then rinse thoroughly with water. Then boiled with three glasses of water, and simmer until just have left the glass. Let cool boiled water and drink twice a day for a week. When you possess a good effect, then you can continue to drink the cooking water.
2. Treat Gout
Soursop leaves can also be used as a gout medication. Many alternative medicine that uses soursop leaves for the treatment of gout.
It is very easy ie with soursop leaves which are quite old but still green, about 6 to 10 pieces and then wash clean. Furthermore, soursop leaves cut into pieces with the purpose of ensuring the content in the leaves right out. The leaves are boiled with two cups of water, simmer until tersisah one glass of water. Drink the concoction twice a day ie morning and evening.
3. Eliminate Boils
Ulcer is one of the skin disorder is a scourge in addition to pain, it boils appeared not to know the place. The body could be also the face, now most troublesome when the emergence in the face because it can interfere with beauty.
Way, take five to 10 pieces soursop leaves are still young then put in place that is exposed to a boil until the boil dry.
4. Treating Eczema and Rheumatism
Still until smooth soursop leaves and apply on the part of the body that feels pain or pain due to arthritis or eczema regularly twice a day 1.
5. Improve Immune System
The content contained in soursop leaves is believed to boost the immune system and prevent infection in the body.
How, to prepare four fifths soursop leaves, boiled with 4 cups of water simmer until remaining 1 glass. Drink 1 time a day.
6. Treating Back Pain
Soursop leaf decoction was also helpful for treating back pain. Way, take 20 sheets of soursop leaf and then boiled with 5 cups of water used to stay and drink 3 cups 1 3/4 cups sehar times.
7. Eliminate Lice
Now we turn to the leaves, Ladies. Soursop leaves if boiled it can be used to repel fleas you know, either lice or fleas in the bed.
Benefits of Soursop Fruit
Soursop fruit
1 Treating Diarrhea In Infants
The content in the fruit soursop efficacious for treating diarrhea or diarrhea in infants. Prepare the soursop fruit is ripe, then squeeze and filtered to take water. Drinks diarrhea in infants of 2-3 tablespoons.
2 Addressing Hemorrhoid
Diseases of the most annoying ever. Often experienced by women, but for some reason is clear now no longer worry because I fix this quite easily.
The trick, squeeze the soursop fruit is ripe and then take as much as a glass of water, then drink the water twice a day, morning and afternoon.
3 Anyang-anyangan
Half-ripe soursop and sugar to taste. Soursop peeled and boiled with sugar together with as much as 2 cups of water, filtered and drunk.
4 Bladder Pain
Half-ripe soursop fruit, sugar and salt to taste. All material is made compote cooked. Eaten plain, and performed regularly every day for 1 week in a row.
5. Liver Disease
Another fast food, only drink soursop juice for 1 week.
Other Benefits of Soursop
1. Did you know, that not only meat, seeds of soursop fruit also useful to maintain your health Soursop seeds emesis in fact contain substances that can be used to reduce nausea and vomiting.
2. Soursop fruit juice when taken when you are fasting can cure mild liver disease and leprosy.
3. Decoction of the buds or leaves of the soursop can cure some diseases such as bladder and bile disorders, cough, diarrhea, fever and indigestion.
4. The leaves when crushed can be used for skin problems and rheumatism.
5. The root bark of the soursop tree is believed to be used as an antidote.
6. Now switch on the flowers, flower soursop tree was found to treat disorders of the nose that causes mucus.
6. Now switch on the flowers, flower soursop tree was found to treat disorders of the nose that causes mucus.
7. Decoction of leaves apparently also has properties to relieve inflammation and swollen feet.
Okay, there it is diverse benefits of fruit and soursop leaves for health. Even now soursop fruit juice already packaged in bottles and sold in pharmacies throughout Indonesia.
Okay, there it is diverse benefits of fruit and soursop leaves for health. Even now soursop fruit juice already packaged in bottles and sold in pharmacies throughout Indonesia.
