Mangosteen, the Nutritional Supplement

Mangosteen , from hot and humid jungles of Southeast Asia , is a bundle of dynamite. Not only the efforts of the crown such culinary perfection ( and bring out the poet people like David Karp ), but has been used for hundreds , if not thousands of years for its healing properties in their country of origin.

Mongoose is a beautiful tree Guttiferae Forest family . It has dark green leaves and bright thick is named after the French explorer Laurent Garcin ( 1683-1751 ) . It is held in such high esteem that it is the national fruit of Thailand, it is also called the "queen of fruits" and the Caribbean is the " fruit of the gods ."

It is a food , drug, its wood is used for furniture and building materials, contains pectin , tannins and resins are industrial and deep purple rind is used as a dye . In fact, it would be difficult to find another tree that is so beneficial !

And yes, also used for the game: small brands like petals on the surface of fruit segments indicate the number of orange (but white as snow ) in the fruit. Sometimes these external markings were razed and Asians bet on the number of segments in the fruit. It seems endless uses for this popular fruit, but here are concerned about the health benefits .

The mangosteen is buzzing with the discovery of a new class of Phytoceuticals called " xanthones " . Two hundred xanthones known to occur in nature, but most of which are in non-edible forms such as wood and lichen . The only way seems to be edible mangosteen xanthones and mangosteen is full of this stuff , forty-six varieties of xanthone far been discovered in this unique fruit . Compared wort, a close relative of the mangosteen contains only a variety of xanthones .

In addition, the mangosteen is loaded with polysaccharides , catechins , qinones , stilbenes and polyphenols and other bioactive substances found mainly in the skin or rind of the fruit , prompting a doctor tell you that the most successful mangosteen supplement . Period .

James Duke , perhaps most important ethnobotany of the United States , covering more than 202 different services mangosteen . Among them , anti -aging, anti -fatigue , anti -bacterial , anti- viral, anti -inflammatory , antioxidant, anti -tumor , anti - arthritis, anti -diabetic , anti -depressants , anti -Parkinson , anti - cataracts anti - obesity , anti - lipidemic and the list goes on and on and on.

In areas where the tree grows naturally , the mangosteen bark , leaves and bark have been used in folk medicine . Most of mangosteen bark is used to treat catarrh (inflammation of the nose and throat ) , cystitis ( bladder inflammation ) , dysentery , eczema ( a skin disease ), fever , intestinal disorders and skin diseases . The natives also use a tea made from the leaves of mangosteen to treat diarrhea , dysentery , fever and thrush. Mangosteen bark teas are known for the treatment of genital and urinary tract infections and stomatitis (inflammation of the mouth) .

A Vietnamese gentleman knows, remembers his parents sitting under a tree chewing the skin or pericarp of the mangosteen . Another said to grind dry , boil and drink as a tea for dysentery and all kinds of stomach problems common in the tropics.

A Vietnamese lady also gave me the following formula: grind whole mangosteen fruit , skin and seeds included , mixed with other fruits and eat. The purpose of mixing with other mangosteen fruit is acceptable to make the skin extremely unpleasant as it is in the skin of the fruit of the mangosteen that most of the benefits are .

Dr. DeGuzman , a general surgeon , a gastroenterologist and a gynecologist , was born in the Philippines and mangosteen remembers well . Do not forget to eat a lot of it and every time I pulled the skin, his mother scolded him because he wanted to save the skin for its medicinal properties. She hangs to dry and then use it when someone in the family was sick, she did it as a tea boil.

Dr. DeGuzman recommended we take mangosteen juice every day of our lives, because of their cancer prevention properties .

And this is just one of the benefits . Here are some others:

• Something in the mangosteen stimulates the bone marrow to produce red and white blood cells.

• As an antidepressant , mangosteen adjusts the levels of serotonin.

• As an anti - bacterial , mangosteen is one of the most powerful natural antibiotics that we have , but it proved to be as effective as vancomycin, a powerful antibiotic intravenously used by doctors .

• In addition to anti - cancer , mangosteen has been found to be more powerful than five of the six chemotherapy drugs tested against .

• As an antioxidant , mangosteen is one of the best . It was called a supercharged antioxidant because , unlike other antioxidants, mangosteen xanthones have more electrons to neutralize free radicals ... well ...

• An antioxidant must "adapt" the free radicals that must be neutralized . If adjustments or antioxidant can neutralize free radical. Xanthones Mangosteen is 40 + , each of which is suitable for different types of free radicals . Thus, the chances of finding the "right" to the right is multiplied manifold. No wonder that those who say that the mangosteen one day be bigger than the Aloe Vera.

• Mangosteen helps prevent cancer in at least two ways. First, it inhibits the formation of cancer and the second , by a process called apoptosis , which helps cancerous cells commit suicide .

• Mangosteen is also a powerful natural anti-inflammatory

Since the precursors of most, if not all, serious illnesses are free radicals and chronic inflammation , powerful antioxidants and anti -inflammatory xanthones " is unmatched in terms of disease prevention !