The Benefits of Soursop

Benefits of Soursop

Also called graviola, Annona muricata or soursop originating from Mexico, Cuba, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America, primarily Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico. Soursop is also produced in some parts of Africa, especially in Eastern Nigeria, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Soursop fruit skin is green and covered with a cone-shaped seed.  The color of  fruit soursop meat is white,  and meat will feel soft when ripe with sweet and sour and tasty enough to be eaten directly or made of soursop juice. Soursop fruit seeds are small and in between the meat soursop fruit with glossy black color.

Soursop Fruit Nutrient

Soursop fruit is contained within various types of nutrients beneficial to human health where this fruit contains large amounts of riboflavin, folate, vitamin C, B1, and B12. Soursop fruit is rich in Vitamins, Minerals,  Protein, Carbohydrates,  Fatty Acids & Amino Acids. For more details visit : National Nutrient Database


Health Benefits of Soursop

Are generally Medicinal Benefits of Soursop (Graviola) is for kills cancer cells, slows tumor growth, kills bacteria, kills parasites, reduces blood pressure, lowers heart rate, dilates blood vessels, sedates
relieves depression, reduces spasms, kills viruses, reduces fever, expels worms, stimulates digestion,
stops convulsions,  reduces blood pressure,

Soursop fruit, leaves and seeds are useful as a natural remedy to treat a variety of diseases, and in communities where traditional indigenous fruit grown soursop plant also use as an herbal remedy to treat various types of diseases and which are as follows

1. Cancer
To prevent cancer is to eat fruit or drink soursop juice on a regular basis, to treat cancer while it is able to utilize the leaves because the leaves of soursop fruit is believed to be useful as a natural chemotherapy drug for cancer patients, even more remarkable because  soursop leaves only kill cells that grow abnormally and allow cells to grow normally and the patient do not experience negative effects experienced with chemotherapy treatments such as hair loss and nausea. While the addition of chemotherapy to kill abnormal cells can also give effect to kill also some normal cells are exposed to radiation and chemotherapy in addition to the usual patient will experience hair loss and nausea

How to treatment using soursop leaf is to take old soursop leaves as many as 10 pieces and then boiled with three glasses of water to stay a glass of water, then drink boiling water twice a day each a glass and do it continuously on a regular basis, and drink this potion for the body feels warm like effect of chemotherapy and in two weeks will be visible effect against cancer in the body and to know the exact results in better medical check.

2. Ambient.
Pick the ripe fruit soursop and then extorted to be taken as a glass of water, then drink two times a day, every morning and evening

3. Lumbago
Take 20 sheets of soursop leaves and then boiled with 5 cups water to boiling until there remained 3 glasses and then drink each day as much as ¾ cup

4. Ulcer
Take young soursop leaf to taste and finely mashed with added ½ teaspoon of water, then stir until smooth and pinned in place Boils

5. Pain in the bladder urine.
Take half-ripe soursop fruit and mix it with sugar and salt to taste to the fruit compote is made by cooking soursop fruit mixed with sugar and salt, then spent a week in a row regularly eaten every day

6. Others

• The seeds, which have emetic properties, can be used in the treatment of vomiting. 

• The leaf decoction is effective for head lice and bedbugs. 

• The crushed fresh leaves can be applied on skin eruptions to promote healing. 

• The juice of the fruit can be taken orally as a remedy for urethritis, haematuria and liver ailments. 

• The juice when taken when fasting, it is believed to relieve liver ailments and leprosy. 

• To speed the healing of wounds, the flesh of the soursop is applied as a poultice unchanged for 3 days. 

• A decoction of the young shoots or leaves is regarded as a remedy for gall bladder trouble, as well as coughs, catarrh, diarrhea, dysentery, fever and indigestion. 

• Mashed leaves are used as a poultice to alleviate eczema and other skin problems and rheumatism. 

• The root bark is use as an antidote for poisoning. 

• Soursop flowers are believed to alleviate catarrh. 

• Decoction of leaves used as compresses for inflammation and swollen feet.

Worldwide Ethnomedical Uses 

• Brazil: For abscesses, bronchitis, cough, diabetes, chest problems, diarrhea, dysentery, edema, fever, intestinal colic, liver problems, neuralgia, intestinal parasites, nervousness, pain, parasites, rheumatism, spasms, worms 
• Caribbean: For chills, fever, flu, indigestion, nervousness, palpitations, skin disease, rash, spasms, and as a sedative 
• Curaçao: For childbirth, gallbladder problems, nervousness, and as a sedative and tranquilizer 
• Haiti: for digestive sluggishness, coughs, diarrhea, fever, flu, heart conditions, lactation aid, lice, nerves, parasites, pain, pellagra, sores, spasms, weakness, wounds, and as a sedative 
• Jamaica: For asthma, fevers, heart conditions, hypertension, lactation aid, nervousness, parasites, spasms, water retention, weakness, worms, and as a sedative 
• Malaysia: For boils, coughs, diarrhea, dermatosis, hypertension, rheumatism, and to reduce bleeding 
• Mexico: For diarrhea, dysentery, fever, chest colds, ringworm, scurvy, and to reduce bleeding 
• Panama: For diarrhea, dyspepsia, kidney, stomach ulcers, worms 
• Peru: For diabetes, diarrhea, dysentery, fever, hypertension, indigestion, inflammation, lice, liver disorders, parasites, spasms, tumors, ulcers (internal), and as a sedative 
• Trinidad: For blood cleansing, fainting, flu, high blood pressure, insomnia, lactation aid, palpitations, ringworms 
• U.S.A.: For cancer, depression, fungal infections, hypertension, intestinal parasites, tumors 
• West Indies: For asthma, childbirth, diarrhea, hypertension, lactation aid, parasites, worms 
• Elsewhere: For arthritis, asthma, bile insufficiency, childbirth, cancer, diarrhea, dysentery, fever, heart problems, kidney problems, lactation aid, lice, liver disorders, malaria, pain, ringworm, scurvy, stomach problems, and as a sedative