Monday, November 23, 2009
This is a small genus of five species, native to tropical America. A, cosmoses, the polymorphic species is cultivated widely in tropical countries for its succulent fruit. The pineapple plant is a perennial, erect herb, with a short stem bearing a rosette of leaves 2-3 ft. long, with prickly margins and spiny tips. The fruit, which has a rough surface and a crown of small leaves, has succulent flesh of yellow to light orange color. Fresh juice contains brandling, an enzyme which aids digestion. This is destroyed on heating to 650 and above. Pineapple juice is found to be very refreshing, cooling and tone up body systems. It is also authelmintic in nature. Pineapple juice from unripe fruits, acts a violent purgative. It is also an abortifacient. To get rid of indigestion, sprinkle black pepper & salt over small pieces of bananas and take ¾ times in a day. To get rid of swelling over the body, take one full ripe bananas daily for 15 days. To get rids of stones, use bananas juice daily for 15 days and if required one month. Fresh juice is diuretic, diaphoretic, aperients and helps in the digestion of aluminous substances. Juice of the unripe fruit is acrid, styptic, powerful domestic emmenagogue. Fruit juice is given to oily gastric irritability in fever & in jaundice. Juice of unripe fruit showed promising ant fertility property.
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