Mangosteen is a fruit that has been with Thai people for a long time, but how many people know mangosteen very well? The mangosteen has different names. and has a history as Mangosteen’s scientific name is Garcinia mangostana Linn. It is called mangostana in Malay. manggustan in Indonesian. In Burmese it is called Mingkuthi. The Sinhalese language is called Mangus. It is a type of tropical deciduous tree believed to have originated in the Sunda and Moluccas Islands and spread to the West Indies around the 24th century. To Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Ecuador, all the way to Hawaii.
Benefits of mangosteen, many properties
Mangosteen is a very popular fruit from Asia. It has been dubbed the ” Queen of Fruits” probably because of the fruit’s external appearance with a structure attached to the pedicle of the fruit, resembling a queen’s crown. The inside is clean and white. It has a sweet and delicious taste
Mangosteen pulp: It is sometimes used in cooking, both savoury food such as curry, salad, and sweet food such as mangosteen juice, mangosteen jam, mangosteen preserves, and preserved mangosteen. Mangosteen is made by carving out the flesh of the mangosteen and skewering it on a stick to eat. While most people like to eat ripe mangosteen as a fruit, which is useful in helping to neutralise free radicals and help strengthen the immune system. With the body, it helps to slow down ageing and wrinkles and helps nourish the skin to be radiant and bright again.
It also helps prevent fever as well as helps strengthen bones and teeth. Helps increase energy for the body, increases vigor, inhibits the growth of acne-causing bacteria, and works well against acne inflammation. And helps prevent depression and reduce stress.
Eating mangosteen regularly helps promote good mental health. Always in a good mood helps reduce cholesterol levels in the body and reduce bad fat in the blood vessels. It also helps to prevent tumours in the body. Having juice helps prevent diabetes. With the ability to reduce and control sugar levels as well,
Mangosteen pulp is high in fibre which helps with excretion and is very high in vitamins and minerals such as organic acids, sugar, calcium, phosphorus and iron.
Mangosteen peel: The mangosteen peel contains substances that give an astringent taste, namely tannins and xanthones (especially mangostin), which tannins have an astringent effect. It makes the wound heal quickly, while mangostin helps reduce inflammation and has good antibacterial properties that cause pus. In herbal medicine, dried mangosteen peels boiled with water or grilled over a fire with lime juice to cure diarrhoea. Dried mangosteen peels with lime juice are used to treat athlete’s foot and canker sores. In addition, mangosteen peels contain antifungal substances suitable to treat open wounds.
Mangosteen Juice: Mangosteen juice helps balance the immune system. By secreting Interleukin I and Tumour Necrosis Factor, it helps inhibit the secretion of histamine, reducing autoimmune symptoms (in SLE disease).and reduce inflammation In patients with diabetes, liver failure, kidney failure, and osteoarthritis high blood pressure Parkinson’s disease, hyperthyroidism Brain disorders due to inflammation
Does eating mangosteen make you fat?
Many people wonder if eating mangosteen will make you fat. Let’s see how it goes.
Even though mangosteen has a sweet taste, it has low energy and few calories, so you don’t have to be afraid of gaining weight. Plus, the medical profession has confirmed that mangosteen is a good dietary supplement that can help you lose weight. Mangosteen is a fruit that is high in fibre, so it is Benefits for excretion, making the stomach not bloated. and can prevent colon cancer, therefore it is considered very beneficial to the body
Do mangosteen protect against HIV?
Mangosteen has many benefits. As for HIV, mangosteen may not protect against HIV , but it does help stop some types of HIV , according to a professor at the College of Petroleum and Petrochemicals, Chulalongkorn University. He said, the mangosteen peel has many properties. If the inner peel of the mangosteen is processed through a special chemical process, high amounts of xanthones can be extracted. These substances have important medical properties, namely, they have antioxidant properties. Anti-inflammatory, heals wounds, treats cancer cells, kills bacteria that can cause serious respiratory diseases. and has the ability to inhibit some HIV viruses, as Morfolk Magazine stated that methanol extracts and substances from mangosteen fruit peels. It helps inhibit the enzyme protease ( HIV-1 pro-tease) , which is an essential germ in the life cycle of HIV . Water extracts and methanol extracts from mangosteen fruit peels can also inhibit the enzyme reverse transcriptase.
Mangosteen and cancer treatment
In addition to inhibiting some types of HIV , mangosteen can also prevent the development of almost all types of cancer cells. The Thai Mangosteen Research and Development Center, Asian Phytoceuticals Public Company Limited and Chiang Mai University have discovered the substance formula . Anti-cancer from the whole mangosteen. Mangosteen extract helps create white blood cells type Th1 (Th1) and Th17 (Th17) , which have the effect of helping to eliminate and prevent the formation of almost all types of cancer cells. And mangosteen juice also creates Treg white blood cells that help organize the body’s immune system. Meanwhile, experimental results with patients with late-stage lung cancer found that the patients had a significantly better quality of life.
In addition, the head of the research team, Prof. Dr. Pichet Wiriyachitra, founder of the Thai Mangosteen Research and Development Center. It is said that mangosteen extract can create TH-1 white blood cells , which is a substance that stimulates the immune system in the body and can prevent disease, especially cancer cells.
