Sunday, November 04, 2012

Custard Apple & its benefits: Health Remedies (AWHW)

Custard apples contain anti-oxidants like Vitamin C which helps to fight free radicals in our body. It is also high in potassium and magnesium that protects our heart from cardiac disease. Not only that, it also controls our blood pressure. Custard apples contain Vitamin A, which keeps your skin and hair healthy. This fruit is also known to be great for eyes, and cures indigestion problems. It’s important to include this fruit in your diet, as the copper content helps to cure constipation, and helps to treat diarrhoea and dysentery.
As they are high in magnesium, they equalise the water balance in our body, which helps in removing acids from the joints and reduces the symptoms of rheumatism and arthritis. If you feel tired and weak more often than usual, then have this fruit in your daily diet, as the potassium present in it will help to fight muscle weakness.
It is also good for people suffering from anaemia, as it this fruit is high in calorie. And if you want to put on some weight, include this in your daily diet chart. Custard apple contains natural sugar, and hence make great nutritious snacks and even desserts.
Custard apple Benefits :
This fruit is popularly known as Seethapalam in India, and available in particular season. The pulp of the fruit when mixed with milk it would become custard and tastes like custard, it is called as custard apple. It is widely used to make jams jellies and sherbats.
This fruit contains minerals like Calcium, Phosphorous, iron and riboflavin and low in calorie content. It improves digestion and acts as a remedy for diarrhea and vertigo. Fortreatment of lice, powdered unripe fruit is used as a cure. The flesh of the fruit is creamy and sweeter in taste. The seeds of this fruit are black and shiny and slightly poisonous in nature. This seeds when powdered mixed with neem oil act as a natural Bio pesticide.
The custard apple nutritional facts or nutritional benefits includes, the presence ofVitamin C, as an antioxidant eliminates free oxygen radicals in the body, the rich content of Vitamin A improves healthy vision, health hair and healthy skin, the presence of magnesium improves the function of cardiovascular system and improves heart health,relax muscles as well, and the presence of Vitamin B6 and Potassium regulates the heart beat and maintains electrolyte balance.
The other health benefits of custard apple are as follows, the presence of copper and dietary fiber in these fruits keep the digestive system in good health, provides relief from constipation, and the presence of less fat improves good health and the creamy flesh of the fruit can be used as balm to treat boils, abscesses and ulcers. The dried and powdered custard apple can be used for the treatment of dysentery.
Custard apple fruit juice as beverage used as substitute for milk also. Custard appletree bark is dried and powdered, which is used for making herbal medicines as it contains astringents and tannins. The leaves of custard apple help in the treatment of tumors and cancer whereas the bark of the tree used for the treatment of toothache and pain in oral cavity. Custard apple juice provides cooling effect to the body and act as expectorant and stimulant.
Custard apple benefits includes, it provides relief from anemia as it is rich in phytoinutrients and phytochemicals. The presence of potassium in these fruits improves muscle strength and the presence of magnesium equalizes the balance of water in the body and cleanse the acids present in the joints thereby provides relief from joint pains, arthritis, rheumatism disorders.
There are other many health benefits provided by custard apple includes the presence of high content of copper, improves the production of RBC’s and it is essential for conceived mothers. The custard apple fruits are more beneficial for pregnant women as they need 1000 mcgs of copper every day, which is effectively supplemented naturally by custard apples. The powdered seeds of custard apple are used for the treatment of lice. Custard apples provide carbohydrates, proteins, low fats apart from minerals andvitamins, and all contribute to provide overall good health.

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