What is Guyabano ?
Scientific name: Annona muricata
English name: Sour Sop
Filipino name: Guyabano
Spanish name: Guanabana
GUYABANO is a flowering, evergreen tree native to tropical regions of the world such as Mexico, Central America, Northern America, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. There’s a lot of claims and articles relating to health benefits of GUYABANO have attributed to its strong anti-cancer effects from the tree, to its leaves, bark, root and fruit. After several research on GUYABANO’s anti cancer property, it has become a favorite ingredient of all cancer supplements all over the world.
English name: Sour Sop
Filipino name: Guyabano
Spanish name: Guanabana
GUYABANO is a flowering, evergreen tree native to tropical regions of the world such as Mexico, Central America, Northern America, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. There’s a lot of claims and articles relating to health benefits of GUYABANO have attributed to its strong anti-cancer effects from the tree, to its leaves, bark, root and fruit. After several research on GUYABANO’s anti cancer property, it has become a favorite ingredient of all cancer supplements all over the world.
Health Benefits:
Nutritional Value of Guyabano:
Guyabano fruit is high in carbohydrates, particularly fructose. The fruit also contains significant amounts of vitamin C, vitamin B1, and vitamin B2.
Uses of concoction prepared from pulverized guyabano seeds:
Uses of guyabano fruit / Juice from guyabano fruit:
Guyabano fruit is high in carbohydrates, particularly fructose. The fruit also contains significant amounts of vitamin C, vitamin B1, and vitamin B2.
Uses of concoction prepared from pulverized guyabano seeds:
- As skin astringent
- Treat muscle spasms
- Treat dysentery
- To purge parasites such as bedbugs and head lice
- As sudorific or to cause one to sweat
- As an agent to cause vomiting (emetic)
- As tranquilizer and sedative
- To treat head lice and bedbugs and other parasites
- To treat inflammation
- Treatment for eczema and skin diseases
- Treatment of catarrh or inflammation of mucous membrane in the respiratory tract.
- Treatment of pain and inflammation associated with arthritis, rheumatism.
Uses of guyabano fruit / Juice from guyabano fruit:
- Used as diuretic,
- Treatment of hematuria and urethritis
- Treat Dysentery
- Treat Scurvy
- To treat diabetes
- As tranquilizer and sedative