Valuable remedies from custard apple tree

Oriental medicine also believes that custard apple has a sweet, slightly sour taste and is warm in nature, has the effect of reducing gas, eliminating phlegm, and treating dysentery... with a simple and inexpensive way of preparing the medicine.

Ripe custard apples are very good for the elderly, people who have just recovered from illness, women after giving birth... Deaf custard apples are young custard apples that have been damaged by fungus, the dry, reddish-brown color is used to treat pimples on women's breasts, coughs, sore throats... In addition, people also use custard apple seeds to kill lice, custard apple leaves to treat chronic malaria, sprains, and custard apple roots and bark are used as a deworming medicine...

For reference and application, below are some ways to treat some diseases from custard apple as follows:

- Treatment of breast swelling:Crush a handful of custard apple leaves with dandelion leaves and apply to the swollen breast. Change once a day.

- Treatment of sprain injuries:20g custard apple leaves, 10g green papaya, 5g slaked lime, 5g salt, crush all together and heat over fire to apply to the affected area. Apply once a day.

- Roundworm removal:Custard apple root 30 - 50g, chopped, washed, roasted, boiled to get concentrated water, drink once in the morning.

- Nourishment for the elderly, people recovering from illness, women after giving birth:Eat 1 ripe custard apple twice a day.

- Treatment of diarrhea and dysentery:Use 20g of custard apple fruit, burn it to ashes, 50g of young Lao grass, 30g of rice, roast until golden brown, put all in to boil and drink, 1 dose per day, divided into 3 times.

- Treatment of breast boils:Take dried custard apple, grind into powder, mix with vinegar, apply this mixture several times a day to the boil.

- Cure toothache:Crush the custard apple seeds and soak them in alcohol. Then, use the alcohol to soak the custard apple seeds and hold it in the painful tooth. After holding it for about 10-15 minutes, spit out the water. You should hold it in your mouth a few times a day.

-Lice treatment:Take the crushed custard apple seeds and soak them in concentrated alcohol and apply it to your hair. Then cover your head with a cloth and leave it for about 30 minutes before washing your hair. Also take this custard apple seed soaked alcohol solution and soak your clothes in it.

- Treat sore throat:50g of custard apple fruit, 50g of rehmannia glutinosa root, 30g of Chinese clematis root, 20g of gac seed kernel, 50g of mint leaves, 25g of licorice root, 25g of lemon leaves, 25g of apple leaves. Dry all of them (burn the custard apple fruit and keep it), and grind them into a fine powder, then mix with 150g of sugar cooked into syrup to make pills, each pill weighs 0.5g. Adults take 3-4 pills twice a day. Children take 3-6 pills a day, divided into 2 times, depending on their age. Take for 3-5 days.

- Treatment of malaria:40g of custard apple, 80g of earthworms (neck type), 20g of alum. Crush the custard apple, soak in wine and fry until golden brown. Turn the earthworms inside out, wash and remove the wine, dry, and fry until golden brown. Mix the two ingredients with alum, grind into a fine powder and mix with garlic water to make pills the size of green beans. Take 10 pills each time, twice a day.

Or take 20 - 30g of custard apple leaves, crush them, add water to squeeze out 1 bowl of juice, filter through cloth, expose to dew, the next day add a little alcohol, stir and drink about 2 hours before the malaria attack. Drink once a day, need to drink continuously for 5 - 7 days.

According to Vietnam Agriculture - NT