Efficacy of Mahogany Seeds
On our campus, Al-Zaytun, quite a lot of mahogany (Swietenia Mahagoni Jacg Latin names or in the country tentangga also called sky fruit because fruit leads to the sky) and has now grown big.
Trees can reach 5-25 feet tall has a root riding, trunked round, many branches and sap wood. The leaves are compound pinnate even. Helaiannya oval. The tip and tapered base. Flat edge, bone pinnate, and 3-15 cm in length. The young leaves are red and green color after dark. The flowers are arranged in a bouquet compound that came out of leaf armpit. Mother cylindrical flower stalk and the color brown.
This tree petals off one another, shaped like a spoon, and it's green. Crown cylindrical, brownish yellow. Stamens attached to the crown. Anthers white or brownish yellow. Fruit shape is oval, notched five, the color brown. Seeds flattened, brown or black color. New mahogany flowering after the age of 7 years.
What is interesting for me was the fruit seeds.
Some friends suggested that we regularly eat beans at least once mahogany / day, both for health said. Because many seeds are scattered everywhere, be every evening ebony finish my watering plants, picking the seeds of mahogany and ate one seed, the rest is put in office for friends who want to eat well.
Mahogany seeds are very bitter, long the loss of the tongue. For that I eat it like a pill just to eat, put on the back of the tongue directly driven by the water. Usefulness? My feeling still, the body does not quickly exhausted, increases stamina, not easy to drop / ill.
It was nearly two months of eating, there are friends who question whether the true seed is good for kesihatan mahogany instead of the bitter-bitter nature of doping, so that's not good is consumed more often? I was so stunned, too, yes yes, I eat this seed new mahogany "he said-she said" only healthy, have not read the literature. I'm looking at Google's many other benefits also must be careful not to most (but, no matter if most are not good, right?).
Research mahogany pieces for use as vitamins and drugs was first performed by a biochemist, DR. Larry Brookes, in the 1990s. Mahogany fruit contains flavonoids and saponins.
The content of flavonoids was useful for blood circulation, especially to prevent the blockage of blood vessels, reduces cholesterol and fatty deposits on blood vessel walls, helps reduce pain, bleeding, and bruising, as well as act as antioxidants to eliminate free radicals.
Saponin is useful to prevent pestilence, reduce body fat, boost the immune system, improve blood sugar levels, and strengthen liver function and slow the blood clotting process.
According to Chinese medicine, this plant has a characteristic bitter, cold, antipyretics (fever), antifungal, and can reduce high blood pressure, hypertension, blood sugar disorders, lack of appetite, fever, and helps maintain durability. This plant also has the ability as an astringent (drying), can precipitate intestinal mucous membrane proteins and form a layer that protects the intestine, preventing the intake of glucose and the rate of increase in blood glucose.
It is said also, mahogany powder mixture was believed to have a property to assist the process of healing and vitality. There also are suitable for beginning-level complaints stroke, hypertension, diabetes.
A study mahogany seeds in lowering blood glucose in animal experiments ever conducted Mihardja Laurentia, a researcher at the Center For Research and Development of Disease Control, NIHRD. The extract mahogany dose of 45 mg / 160 g body weight after 7 days showed a significantly different result than the solvent and did not differ with glikazide 7.2 mg/200 g body weight. It was concluded, mahogany can lower blood glucose in animal experiments.
How to Eat
1. Seeds are eaten immediately after removing the outer skin is flat.
2. Used as a first powder, crushed or mashed beans into a powder and brewed with hot water.
3. Eaten in the form of extracts, is that many on the market. Extracts are marketed in different forms, ranging from the capsule, fiber powder, premix juice, essential oils (for raising breast and a skin), tea powder, instant coffee powder until. Most in the form of powder, whereas other forms are based more on order.
If you want to take advantage of factory-made mahogany extract, choose who has received permission from the POM. When in doubt, may consult with your doctor, especially for those who bermasaiah with diabetes.
Sample Potions
Not complicated to make herb-based powders mahogany, just mix it with water, namely:
* To treat high blood pressure, take half a teaspoon of powdered seeds of mahogany and glass of hot water. Add one tablespoon of honey, stirred, after a warm and drunk.
* For patients with blood sugar disorders, potion together with hypertension, and should be taken 30 minutes before meals.
* To enter the wind and stamina enhancer, their formula is the same, but you can add ginger.
* For hypertension: 8 grams of freshly brewed beans with 2 cups hot water. After chilling filtered and then divided into 2 sections, taken morning and evening. Or it could be half a teaspoon of powdered seeds mahogany half-cup of brewed with hot water, add 1 tablespoon of honey. Drink while warm. Do it 2-3 times a day.
* For diabetes, half a teaspoon of powdered seeds mahogany brewed with 1 / 3 cup hot water. Let stand for several hours for a nutritious substance soluble in water. Filter first before drinking. Drink while warm, 30 minutes before eating. Do it 2-3 times a day. Although mahogany seeds steeping water taste bitter, drink it as is. Do not added honey or sugar.
* To increase appetite, half a teaspoon of powdered seeds mahogany brewed with 1 / 3 cup hot water. Add 1 tablespoon of honey. Drink while warm. Do it 2-3 times a day.
* To say to a fever and colds, half a teaspoon of powdered seeds mahogany quarter cup of brewed with hot water. Add 1 tablespoon of honey. Drink while warm. Do it 2-3 times a day.
* For eczema and rheumatism, half a teaspoon of powdered seeds mahogany half-cup of brewed with hot water. Add 1 tablespoon of honey. Drink while warm. Do it 3 times a day.
NOTE: before used as powder, dried mahogany seeds first. Once dried, then ground to a powder.
Side Effects
Besides the benefits that quite a lot, there are also some side effects.
From the above note there are 2 ingredients Mahogany seeds:
1. Saponin,
2. Flavonoids
That number 1 should really pay attention, because in a certain amount would increase the risk of cholesterol in mempedu fluid, which in akirnya will cause gallstones. Besides, it also acts as a steroid.
A number 2, the maximum dose is 200 mg per day.
Besides, that particular person, it seems not yet to the increase of bile cholesterol, already feeling sick in the pit of the stomach. So, as long as you measure the dose, and is not used for a long time,
probably due to the effect that help flavonoida permeability or blood vessel flexibility, it can indeed be used for high blood pressure.
The problem, in studies on saponin, do not use mahogany, also in the department of health database no perbiji how much content. Because humans are unique, too, plants grown mahogany with a particular place produces a certain degree also will be is difficult to regulate and how we decide.
According to herbalist practitioner experience, should be enough to eat one seed per day, if eaten immediately. Another dose comparable to that.
Good luck.
Reference:
[1]http://blog.alfisatria.com/khasiat-biji-mahoni.html
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