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Thursday, March 19, 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 juice form of this fruit is the most popular. It mixes well with other fruits for a better taste. The fruit itself is full of a lot of seeds and hard to eat, despite having several good vitamins including calcium, Vitamin C, Iron, and Vitamin A. The powdered form of noni has high levels of dietary fiber and carbohydrates. It also contains enough fatty acids, flavanoids, indoids, phytoestrogens, and polysaccharides to be considered one of the healthiest fruits around.

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 Malaysians make poultices from the leaves of the Noni Plant to aid in the relief of coughing, nausea, general colds and respiratory ailments. Indochinese make poultices for broken bones and sprains to relieve the pain. They also insist that parts of the plant help in lumbago and asthma.

This Queen Fruit or Canoe Fruit as it was named by early Polynesian tribes, traveled with them wherever they went. Because of its healing and health benefits it was one of the things the tribe would consider essential to travel or take with them. They would eat the fruit, drink the juice, use it for medical purposes and save the seeds to plant. - 17274

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