Alternative Medicine pt 2

Posted By: PanaGal on 09.04.2007
Views: 756, Published in sections: Alternative Medicine ::

One of the many things I love about the culture here is the use of food as medicine. If you are drinking a glass of agua de pipa (water from a young green coconut) someone is sure to mention to you how good this is for your kidneys.

The following is about just one of the plants foods that people in Panama are aware of and use for health and healing.

Borojo, is a fruit that grows in a tree. The fruit is about the size of a small to medium round watermelon, and its color is green. The pulp is brown, acid, and very dense (SOUR!) consisting mostly of fructose and glucose. The fruit has around 90 to 600 seeds, and it is considered ripe when it falls from the tree.

The Borojo has exceptional properties for the nourishment health. It has demonstrated to be very good for:

Bronchial afflictions
Providing protein in vegetarian diets, helps to compensate the protein and amino acid levels in the body.
Sugar equilibrium in the blood
Desnutrition (absorption of proteins in the stomach)
Treatment of arterial hypertension
Increasing sexual potency Contains Sesquiterpelantond, which inhibits cell growth in harmful tumors

It is highly energetic, with very high protein content. It has huge quantities of essential amino acids for the body, and its phosphorous content is surprising (60mg/100g of pulp). Borojo has one of the highest levels of vitamin b (water soluble), compared to any other fruit.

The pulp is used to prepare juice (jugo del amor), compotes, marmalades, candies and wine.

In an article from the El Visitante Jorge Quintero Rubio is interviewed because of his production and marketing of tropical wines, one of which is a Borojo-Noni wine. Jorge told of giving the fruit concentrate to a man in David, Panama who claims it cured his cancer in 2002.

The gentleman had liver cancer with much pain and upon taking the fruit three times daily on the second day the pain had left and inflammation in the liver had started to subside. (According to the cancer survivor no other medicines or traditional treatments by physicians were administered.) In addition to the oral consumption of the fruit a poultice was applied to the outer surface of the body in a corresponding position with the liver.

The cancer survivor says he had sonographs taken before his treatment that should several lesions on the liver. After the Borojo-Noni treatment subsequent sonographs were taken and revealed the absence of lesions. Today the cancer survivor remains healthy and cancer free.

The article as said a wellness center would be opening in the late fall of 2006 that will be offering the Borojo and Noni.

I've include a recipe using Borojo in the 'what's cooking section of the forum. Borojo Sorbet