Soursop, Guarbana, Graviola Seeds 10 Anti Cancer Fruit RARE Healthy

Soursop

The Soursop, Guanábana, Graviola, Coração-da-Índia or Corossol (Annona muricata) is a broadleaf flowering evergreen tree native to the Caribbean, Central and South America, from Brazil north to the West Indies.

It is a distant relative of the pawpaw.

The flesh of the fruit consists of an edible white pulp and a core of undigestible black seeds.

 The species is the only member of genus Annona which is suitable for processing and preservation.

The sweet pulp is used to make juice as well as candies, sorbets and ice cream flavorings.

 Nutrition

Nutritionally, the fruit has significant amounts of vitamin C, vitamin B1, and vitamin B2.

The fruit, seeds, and leaves have a number of herbal medicinal uses among indigenous peoples of regions where the plant is common.

Growing

The Soursop is adapted to areas of high humidity and relatively warm winters, temperatures below 5 °C will cause damage to leaves and small branches, and temperatures below 3 °C can be fatal.

 There is some limited production as far north as southern Florida within USDA zone 10; however these are mostly garden plantings for local consumption.

 The Soursop will reportedly fruit in a container, even in temperate climates if protected from cool temperatures.

Taste/Flavor

Comparisons of its flavour range from strawberry and pineapple mixed together to sour citrus flavour notes contrasting with an underlying creamy roundness of flavour reminiscent of coconut or banana.

Healing Properties

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Pharmacology

There are phytochemicals in the leaves, seeds and stem which are cytotoxic against various types of cancer cells.  There is ongoing cancer-research on this plant concerning the specific phytochemicals that are demonstrating the strongest anti-cancerous and antiviral properties.

Chemotherapy indiscriminately seeks and destroys all actively reproducing cells, while graviola selectively targets enemy cells, and nourishes all healthy and normal cells!!
Nature’s Medicine!
Soursop / Graviola has an important place in staying healthy.

Propagation

The Soursop tree is usually grown from seeds.

They should be sown in flats or containers and kept moist and shaded.

Germination takes from 15-30 days.

Season

 The soursop tends to flower and fruit more or less continuously, but in every growing area there is a principal season of ripening. In Puerto Rico, March to June or September; in Queensland, it begins in April; in southern India, Mexico and Florida, June to September; in the Bahamas, it continues through October. In Hawaii, the early crop occurs from January to April; midseason crop, June to August, with peak in July; and there is a late crop in October or November.

Harvesting

The fruit is picked when full grown and still firm but slightly yellow-green. If allowed to soften on the tree, it will fall and crush. It is easily bruised and punctured and must be handled with care. Firm fruits are held a few days at room temperature. When eating ripe, they are soft enough to yield to the slight pressure of one's thumb.

Food Value

 Per 100 g of Edible Portion
*Calories 61.3-53.1 Moisture 82.8g Protein 1.00g Fat 0.97g Carbohydrates 14.63g Fiber 0.79g Ash 60g
Calcium 10.3 mg Phosphorus 27.7 mg Iron 0.64 mg Vitamin A (B-carotene)0  Thiamine 0.11 mg
Riboflavin 0.05 mg Niacin 1.28mg Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C)29.6 mg

Amino Acids: Tryptophan11 mg Methionine7 mg Lysine 60mg

 *Analyses made at the Laboratorio FIM de Nutricion, Havana, Cuba.

These rare seeds are from pure Soursop grown in the Hana rainforest in Hawaii.

Other Uses

Fruit: In the Virgin Islands, the fruit is placed as a bait in fish traps.

Seeds: When pulverized, the seeds are effective pesticides against head lice, southern army worms and pea aphids and petroleum ether and chloroform extracts are toxic to black carpet beetle larvae. The seed oil kills head lice.

Leaves: The leaf decoction is lethal to head lice and bedbugs. The leaves are known to have anti-cancer properties, and are used in tea, as a remedy for cancer, because they take the body from an acidic state to an alkaline state!.

Bark: The bark of the tree has been used in tanning. The bark fiber is strong but, since fruiting trees are not expendable, is resorted to only in necessity. Bark, as well as seeds and roots, has been used as fish poison.

Wood: The wood is pale, aromatic, soft, light in weight and not durable. It has been used for ox yokes because it does not cause hair loss on the neck. In Colombia, it is deemed to be suitable for pipestems and barrelstaves.

Analyses in Brazil show cellulose content of 65 to 76%, high enough to be a potential source of paper pulp.

Medicinal Uses: The juice of the ripe fruit is said to be diuretic and a remedy for haematuria and urethritis.

Taken when fasting, it is believed to relieve liver ailments and leprosy.

Pulverized immature fruits, which are very astringent, are decocted as a dysentery remedy.
To draw out chiggers and speed healing, the flesh of an acid soursop is applied as a poultice unchanged for 3 days.

In Materia Medica of British Guiana, we are told to break soursop leaves in water, "squeeze a couple of limes therein, get a drunken man and rub his head well with the leaves and water and give him a little of the water to drink and he gets as sober as a judge in no time." This sobering or tranquilizing formula may not have been widely tested, but soursop leaves are regarded throughout the West Indies as having sedative or soporific properties.

 In the Netherlands Antilles, the leaves are put into one's pillow slip or strewn on the bed to promote a good night's sleep. An infusion of the leaves is commonly taken internally for the same purpose. It is taken as an analgesic and antispasmodic in Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador. In Africa, it is given to children with fever and they are also bathed lightly with it.

 A decoction of the young shoots or leaves is regarded in the West Indies as a remedy for gall bladder trouble, as well as coughs, catarrh, diarrhea, dysentery and indigestion; is said to "cool the blood," and to be able to stop vomiting and aid delivery in childbirth. The decoction is also employed in wet compresses on inflammations and swollen feet.

The chewed leaves, mixed with saliva, are applied to incisions after surgery, causing proud flesh to disappear without leaving a scar. Mashed leaves are used as a poultice to alleviate eczema and other skin afflictions and rheumatism, and the sap of young leaves is put on skin eruptions. The roots of the tree are employed as a vermifuge and the root bark as an antidote for poisoning. A tincture of the powdered seeds and bay rum is a strong emetic. Soursop flowers are believed to alleviate catarrh.