Grown in hot, humid tropical climates, usually in black lava soil beds, along sandy, rocky, or lava-ash covered beaches, in the rich soils of shade forests, and in limestone outcrops is where we can find the noni tree. It averages a height of around 30 feet. It is native mostly to the Hawaiian Islands but can also be found in Polynesia, the Dominican Republic, Asia, Tahiti and the Pacific Islands. This plant comes from the Rubiaceae Family, the coffee tree family.
It has been called the starvation or famine fruit because it quite frankly tastes pretty bad on it's own. It has a knobby texture on the outside, very similar to that of a pineapple, and a white skin and is shaped like a gourd or heavy white potato. It has been called the Cheese fruit because it gives off an odor like curing cheese when it is ripening. The fruit itself is quite ugly and really doesn't look like a fruit at all. It has been known by many different names, including the Great Morinda, Indian Mulberry, Mengkudu, Beach Mulberry, Tahitian Noni, and Cheese fruit. Its scientific name is Morinda Citrifolia.
The whole fruit and powder has large levels of dietary fiber and carbohydrates. It also contains many Vitamins, such as Iron, Potassium, Vitamin A, and Calcium. Additionally, the fruit contains fatty acids, polysaccharides, flavanoids, phytoestrogens, and indoids.
Beta-sitosterol is an anti-cholesterol agent. It can be found in abundance in the Noni fruit. Health food stores carry the plant in ground up form for the making of herbal remedies and medicines. The powdered form can also be used to mix in with other foods to derive all the health benefits. Eastern countries use the whole plant, including the bark and roots to make home made medicines that cure and alleviate a variety of illnesses. They use it stop a fever, relieve eye irritations, sooth sore throats, relieve gum irritation and almost any bowel, intestine or stomach problem that may arise. Other countries make poultices from the leaves and put them on the chest for respiratory problems and on broken and sprained limbs for pain.
In Malaysia they use poultices from the leaves to stop coughing, colds, lung ailments, asthma and lumbago. The believe that if made right the poultice will heal almost any ailment.
In Ancient times, tribes carried this fruit with them whenever they went on long voyages or journeys because of its healthful properties. It was given the name of the Queen Fruit because of its attributes. It was also called the 'canoe fruit,' because they carried it in their canoes everywhere they went.
It has been called the starvation or famine fruit because it quite frankly tastes pretty bad on it's own. It has a knobby texture on the outside, very similar to that of a pineapple, and a white skin and is shaped like a gourd or heavy white potato. It has been called the Cheese fruit because it gives off an odor like curing cheese when it is ripening. The fruit itself is quite ugly and really doesn't look like a fruit at all. It has been known by many different names, including the Great Morinda, Indian Mulberry, Mengkudu, Beach Mulberry, Tahitian Noni, and Cheese fruit. Its scientific name is Morinda Citrifolia.
The whole fruit and powder has large levels of dietary fiber and carbohydrates. It also contains many Vitamins, such as Iron, Potassium, Vitamin A, and Calcium. Additionally, the fruit contains fatty acids, polysaccharides, flavanoids, phytoestrogens, and indoids.
Beta-sitosterol is an anti-cholesterol agent. It can be found in abundance in the Noni fruit. Health food stores carry the plant in ground up form for the making of herbal remedies and medicines. The powdered form can also be used to mix in with other foods to derive all the health benefits. Eastern countries use the whole plant, including the bark and roots to make home made medicines that cure and alleviate a variety of illnesses. They use it stop a fever, relieve eye irritations, sooth sore throats, relieve gum irritation and almost any bowel, intestine or stomach problem that may arise. Other countries make poultices from the leaves and put them on the chest for respiratory problems and on broken and sprained limbs for pain.
In Malaysia they use poultices from the leaves to stop coughing, colds, lung ailments, asthma and lumbago. The believe that if made right the poultice will heal almost any ailment.
In Ancient times, tribes carried this fruit with them whenever they went on long voyages or journeys because of its healthful properties. It was given the name of the Queen Fruit because of its attributes. It was also called the 'canoe fruit,' because they carried it in their canoes everywhere they went.
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