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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The Noni Tree's Many Uses

By Will Qualls

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.

The Noni tree has many names including Morinda Citrifolia, great morinda, Indian mulberry, mengkudu, and beach mulberry. This tree produces flowers and fruits all year long. The fruit is known as Cheese fruit because of the smell it produces when it is ripening. The fruit is white with a tough skin that looks like a cross between a pineapple and a gourd. It really isn't a pretty fruit and if you didn't know what it was you would probably be very skeptical about eating it. The fruit has many seeds inside, and is nicknamed starvation fruit because it tastes pretty bad by itself too. Admittedly, Noni is more popular for its juice than for its fruit.

The whole fruit and powder has large levels of dietary fiber and carbohydrates. It also contains many Vitamins, such as Iron, Potassium, Vitamin A, and Calcium. Additionally, the fruit contains fatty acids, polysaccharides, flavanoids, phytoestrogens, and indoids.

Noni also has trace amounts of beta-sitosterol which is an anti-cholesterol agent. The fruit, leaves, and bark are all used in many health food manufacturers and countries for herbal and natural healing remedies. In China, Samoa, Japan and Tahiti, they use the flowers, fruit, bark, leaves, and roots for herbal remedies that treat or cure fever, eye problems, skin ailments, throat gum maladies, bowel and intestine problems and respiratory malfunctions.

The leaves of the noni tree are used in Malaysia as a poultice on the chest to relieve coughs, nausea and colic. The fruit is used in Indochina for lumbago, asthma, and dysentery. It is also made into a poultice an applied to broken bones to help relieve pain.

In Ancient times, tribes carried this fruit with them whenever they went on long voyages or journeys because of its healthful properties. It was given the name of the Queen Fruit because of its attributes. It was also called the 'canoe fruit,' because they carried it in their canoes everywhere they went. - 17269

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