Health Benefits of Mangosteen
Referred to as the “Queen of Fruits” in Asia, and “Fruit of the Gods” in the French Antilles, the mangosteen is popular not only for its exquisite taste, but mainly because of its many amazing health benefits for humans.
The mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana), originating in countries of Southeast Asia is not related to the mango. The fruit that comes from the evergreen mangosteen has an almost perfectly round shape with a size only slightly smaller than a tennis ball. The rind of the mangosteen fruit has come reddish purple, and is used to treat many diseases. Its flesh is white and is multi-segmented, like most tropical fruit. It has a very exotic flavor, which can be described as slightly sweet with a mild acid.
Health benefits of mangosteen
The mangosteen was known in Southeast Asia traditional medicine for 400 years. Different parts of the mangosteen fruit and the plant were practitioners of traditional medicine to treat various diseases and disorders such as skin disease that made with dough made from the bark of the mangosteen and the powder was treated in the treatment of diarrhea is served. A broth made from the root of the plant is also used to regulate menstruation and a broth made from the bark is used to treat diarrhea.
Outside the old knowledge that you passed by practitioners of traditional medicine, recent studies have found that mangosteen is not only rich in nutrients, but it does have many antioxidant properties. One of the best known anti-oxidants in mangosteen xanthone. Xanthones are a natural chemicals (phytochemicals) found in various organic materials. This chemical compound selected from the rind or pericarp of the mangosteen fruit is produced is used to lower cholesterol, prevent arteriosclerosis and the fight against cancer.
One of many human health benefits of mangosteen, Dr. J. Frederic Templeman, MD, a family physician, the specialist was responsible for both the U.S. and Canada. Dr formerly enthusiastic about natural products such as mangosteen Templeman, as an allopathic physician (a practitioner of Western medicine), but after many positive results in his own clinic, he started recommending mangosteen occur at the the first intervention to treat some of the complaints of his patients. Fully realized after so many positive results in his clinic convinced, writes Dr. Templeman, a brochure about the mangosteen, entitled “Mangosteen, The X-Factor. A detailed look at the health benefits, science and xanthones from Garcinia mangostana “
Shortly after the research worldwide and the book’s introduction by Dr. Templeman, the popularity of the mangosteen as the number one antioxidant has begun to spread in different parts of the world, especially in the West.
Today, with the growing popularity of the natural method of maintaining a healthy body, people increasingly prefer to use organic produce synthetic drugs. Numerous studies have also been made to value the health of mangosteen and other natural products claiming to be antioxidants, was to prove. And it was one of the studies that xanthones (phytonutrients in the mangosteen) pharmacological properties such as anti-depressants, anti-microbial, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-leukemic, anti tubercoloric-reported anti-diabetes and anti-ulcer. Studies have also found that significant quantities of high anti-oxidants such as cathechins and polyphenols, which are in mangosteen.
The above facts about the health benefits of mangosteen are some more promising one can get with regular consumption of fruit or its products. It is, however, prohibits the importation of this fruit in the United States because of threats to the Mediterranean fruit fly, their use is still in the country, in the form of bottles of juice and capsules.
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