Vitamin C content of guava twice as sweet orange that only 49 mg per 100 g of fruit. Vitamin C was concentrated in the skin and outer flesh is soft and thick. Vitamin C content of guava peaked just before ripe.
This means that 275 grams of guava can daily requirement of vitamin C in three adults or two children.
Guava is also rich in fiber, especially pectin (soluble fiber). Pectin benefits including lowering cholesterol by binding to cholesterol and bile acids in the body and helps remove it. Research carried Singh Medical Hospital and Research Center Morrabad, India, showed that guava can lower total kolestreol levels and blood triglycerides and blood pressure in patients with hypertension.
There is also astringent tannins that cause a sense of the helpful guava facilitate the digestive system and blood circulation, as well as attacking the virus. Potassium contained in this fruit works to increase the regularity of the heartbeat, activating muscle contractions, regulating delivery of nutrients to the cells of the body, as well as lower total cholesterol and high blood pressure (hypertension). According to the study, eating guava 0.5-1 kg / day for four weeks, the risk of heart disease can be reduced by 16 percent.
In guava also discovered lycopene, a substance carotenoids (pigments is important in plants) that have antioxidant activity, so it is useful to provide protection to the body against some types of cancer. In guava, lycopene is available in abundance.
Then guava leaves are also often used as a drug, is known to contain tannins, eugenol (essential oils), fatty oils, resins, tanning substances, triterpinoid and apfel acid. Cashew contains 14 percent essential oils, 15 percent protein and 13 percent starch.
benefits:
According to the documentation Parimin S.P. and WWII-LIPI, in various places, guava commonly used as a treatment to the presentation as follows:
Strengthening the heart, helps the digestive system, and anticancer
Guava juice 200 ml apple juice 400 ml melon juice 200 ml of pure honey 100 cc Blend all ingredients until smooth and then store in the refrigerator. Drinking regularly every morning and afternoon of each 300 cc.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF)
Remedy 1: Guava ripe and mengkal 3 pieces washed. Ripe guava blended until smooth and then filtered to obtain guava juice.
Guava juice taken three times a day until healed DBD. Mengkal fruit is eaten directly with the skin. Fruit seeds do not need undamaged.
Potion 2: fresh guava leaves 1 kg of washed, then cut into small pieces (chopped). Blender with enough water until smooth. Strain and endapkan, so that separate leaf extract with water. The leaf extract oven for durability.
How to use: - Enter the extract into a capsule and drink twice a day, every morning and afternoon. - Drinking leaf extract of guava syrup along with a dose of 1 teaspoon to 1/2 liter of syrup is diluted. Drinking regularly until healed complaint.
Potion 2: Three pieces of fresh young guava leaves chewed with a little salt, then swallowed. Perform 2 times daily.
Remedy 3: Six pieces of guava leaves washed and pounded with a given 1 cup of boiled water, wring it out, drink the water. Enough to drink 2 times a day. Drinking water juice. Do it every day on a regular basis, until completely healed.
Ulcer
Eight pieces of guava leaves are washed, boiled with 1.5 liters of water. Drink three times a day.
Dysentery
Prepare root taste of guava leaves and guava leaves 10 sheets. Cut the roots and leaves, washed, then boiled with water for 20 minutes at a temperature of 90 degrees Celsius. Strain the cooking water and then drink in moderation on a regular basis until the complaints disappear.
Luka
Three guava leaf washed, chewing until blended. Put on the wounds. The content of its astringent to stop bleeding.
Whitish
Two handfuls of young guava leaves and 7 pieces of betel leaves are washed, boiled with a glass of water, strain. Wait a bit cold then drink. Enough to drink 2 times a day.
Flatulence in children
Three pieces of guava leaves, 2 cm skin pulasari, 5 grains of fennel boiled with 1.5 cups of water until the water a half, strain. Drink three times a day. The dose for children under 3 years of a tablespoon, over 3 years and 2 tablespoons.
leather Pain
Remedy 1: A handful of young guava leaves and 7 guava flowers are washed, mash until smooth. Rub the skin of the sick.
Potion 2: fresh guava leaves 500 grams cut into pieces and boiled in hot water of 90 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes. Strain the cooking water and use it to shower while the water is still warm. Do it regularly until the skin disease disappear.
Diabetes
One guava fruit is still mengkal chopped, boiled in 3 cups of water to 1 cup, strain. Drink 2 times a day.
Overactive Bladder (frequent urination)
Three guava leaf washed, salad with a little salt and pepper. Eat every day and night for 2 days.
Sprue
Remedy 1: Boil 1 handful fresh guava leaves plus 1 finger bark with 1 liter of water, strain. Drink 2 times a day.
Potion 2: young guava leaves 2 sheets, 1 sheet of fresh betel leaf, fresh sage leaves one handheld washed clean. Blend all ingredients until smooth and then add water. Squeeze the dough it and then use water to rinse your mouth 2-3 times a day.
Bleeding wounds or ulcers around the bone
Crushed fresh guava leaves, paste in place of the sick. Do this several times a day.
Piles
Remedy 1: Guava leaf or bud light and a banana stone washed, then crushed. Drinking water juice. Do it every day on a regular basis, until completely healed.
Potion 2: fresh guava fruit 500 grams of boiled using enough water to become a viscous liquid. Apply the liquid into the sick body.
