Diabetes remedy from breadfruit leaves

Take 100g of fallen yellow breadfruit leaves, 100g of fresh okra, 50g of fresh young guava leaves, boil the water to drink to stabilize blood sugar.

Breadfruit tree. Illustration photo

According to Dr. Vo Van Chi, author of the Dictionary of Vietnamese Medicinal Plants, the breadfruit tree is also known as the bread tree. The scientific name is Artocarpus communis JKForst.et. G. Forst, belonging to the mulberry family Moraceae.

The Sapodilla is a large tree, about 15 m tall when mature, with white latex. The leaves are one meter long, deeply grooved into 3-9 lobes, very rough on the underside. The yellow leaves fall off quickly, 12-13 cm long. The male flower is 20 cm long, with one stamen. The compound fruit is spherical, green then turns yellow, as big as a human head, has white flesh, not sweet but has a lot of starch. The seeds are one cm large.

The tree is native to Indonesia and New Guinea. Breadfruit is commonly grown in the South Central and Southern provinces of Vietnam due to its adaptability to hot and humid climates.

The pharmacological composition of breadfruit contains α-amyrin, the shell contains cycloartenyl acetate, cycloartenyl. The leaves contain quercetin, camphorol, used as tea to lower blood pressure, treat diabetes and treat tumors.

Eastern medicine often uses ripe, yellow leaves of the breadfruit tree that have just fallen. The leaves have antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, and diuretic properties and are used to treat boils and swelling.

Dr. Vo Van Chi introduces some good remedies from jackfruit leaves as follows:

1. Diabetes: This is a traditional medicine that has been used since 1998, and has the effect of stabilizing blood sugar. Use 100g of fallen yellow breadfruit leaves, 100g of fresh okra, 50g of fresh young guava leaves, boil all of them in water to drink.

2. Treatment of herpes: Burn the leaves of the jackfruit tree into charcoal, grind them finely, combine with fresh turmeric, crush them, add coconut oil to make a cake to apply externally.

3. Pimples and abscesses: Take equal amounts of fresh papaya leaves and moringa leaves, crush with lime until yellow and apply on pimples.

According to Health and Life