Saturday, January 15, 2011

Morinda citrifolia


Surely you know what it is Morinda citrifolia. What comes to your mind when you hear the word Noni? From Wikipedia, Morinda citrifolia, commonly known as great morinda, Indian mulberry, nunaakai (Tamil Nadu, India) , dog dumpling (Barbados), mengkudu (Indonesia and Malaysia), pace (Javanese), beach mulberry, cheese frui or noni (from Hawaiian) is a tree in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. Morinda citrifolia is native from Southeast Asia to Australia and is now distributed throughout the tropics..Surely that is on your mind that noni was smelly and disgusting, and you definitely do not want to eat it. Provided you know the fruit is very useful. Noni can be used for salad and traditional medicines, but citrifolia more widely used as medicines because there are many noni substances that are useful to humans. As below there are some nutrients in noni fruit :
1. Substance nutrition: whole noni fruit is a complete nutritious meal. Nutrients the body needs, such as proteins, viamin, and essential minerals, available preformance in sufficient quantities in fruit and noni leaf. 
2. Terpenoid. This substance helps in the process of organic synthesis and recovery of the body's cells. 3. Substance bakteri.Zat anti-active substances contained in Noni juice that can kill bacteria that cause infections, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Protens morganii, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, and Escherichia coli.
4. Scolopetin. Scolopetin compounds are very effective as a element of anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic.
5. Anti-cancer agent. 
Anti-cancer substances found in noni most effective against abnormal cells.

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