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Monday, March 30, 2009

The Many Uses of Noni Juice

By William Kendricks

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 main use of the fruit is the juice and ground powder. The powder itself is loaded with Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Calcium with trace amounts of sodium. It is also a good source of dietary fiber and carbohydrates. Noni is said to have boosting power for your metabolism. This fruit also contains a sufficient amount of essential fatty acids, flavanoids, polysaccharides, indoids and phytoestrogens.

Noni has a trace element called beta-sitosterol, an anti-cholesterol ingredient. Many health food stores carry other parts of the plant in ground form for the making of natural herbal medicines and remedies. Some countries, like China and Japan use the flowers, fruit, bark, leaves and roots, which is basically the whole plant in their home made remedies. They say it is good for fever, eye irritations, throat and gum infections, bowel, intestine and general stomach problems and lung problems.

The Malaysians make poultices from the leaves of the Noni Plant to aid in the relief of coughing, nausea, general colds and respiratory ailments. Indochinese make poultices for broken bones and sprains to relieve the pain. They also insist that parts of the plant help in lumbago and asthma.

This Queen Fruit or Canoe Fruit as it was named by early Polynesian tribes, traveled with them wherever they went. Because of its healing and health benefits it was one of the things the tribe would consider essential to travel or take with them. They would eat the fruit, drink the juice, use it for medical purposes and save the seeds to plant. - 17273

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