Mangosteen benefits

As a country that has abundant biodiversity, Indonesia has a source of herbal plants endless. One of the plants that also have the efficacy of treatment is the mangosteen. Not only delicious eaten as fresh fruit, mangosteen also has a number of other capabilities. In fact almost all the plant parts that have these properties. Mangosteen is traditionally used as medicine sprue, hemorrhoids, and wounds.

Plants that have Latin name Garcinia mangostana has a hard woody stems. Branches irregular, brown, and sticky. Bark can treat dysentery, diarrhea, and mouth sores.

Two of the mangosteen fruit washed skin, then cut into pieces, before finally boiled with four glasses of water until the volume remaining in half. Mangosteen skin stew that was cold and filtered can be added with honey and taken twice a day to see the results of treatment of dysentery suffered.

"Just as new treatments for dysentery, to cure diarrhea stayed performed similar steps. However, with the volume of water is less, only three glasses of course many,"

To treat thrush, any steps that do the same as manufacturing procedures diarrhea healing potions. Only, the cooking water distillate is used to rinse his mouth and drink as much as three to six times a day.

Mangosteen roots are steep. Mangosteen also has side hairless roots which are few, but profound. Slow growth of roots, easily damaged, and disrupted by a less favorable environment so that the contact area between the roots and the media to grow narrow. Poor rooting system of the mangosteen plant nutrient absorption caused difficulties. However, the roots remain mangosteen has a distinctive properties, which can treat the non-current period.

Other literature mentions mangosteen skin that is too potent antibiotic treat urinary tract inflammatory disease, tonsillitis, intestinal bleeding, worm medicine, hemorrhoids, ulcers, tumors in the mouth and throat.

Mangosteen skin are known to have antimicrobial power against some types of bacteria.
"Mangosteen skin is also antifungal,". Antifungal activity of some xanton isolation (one type of dye from the mangosteen) is derived from the mangosteen rind and some derivate Mangostin against Fusarium oxysporum f. mushrooms sp. Vasinfectum, Alternaria tenuis, Drechela oryzae and can inhibit the growth of all fungi.

Have also done research on the mangosteen xanton activity on the growth of Staphylococcus aureus metisilin resistant to antibiotics. The results showed that one active Isolate, alpha-Mangostin, which is one of the derivate xanton inhibit bacterial growth with MIC for 1,57-12,5 mcg / mL.

Anti-inflammatory research from the mangosteen fruit leather made using Mangostin of ethanol extract of 40%, has a strong inhibitory activity on histamine release and synthesis of prostaglandin E2 as a mediator of inflammation. Methanol extract of mangosteen rind has damping effect of a strong free radicals.

In addition, methanol extracts from the skin Mangostin mangosteen can inhibit cancer cells and can cause apoptosis in breast cancer cells and inhibit the production of reactive oxygen species as free radicals. Based on these studies, Mangostin methanol extract of mangosteen rind have potential to be kemopreventif against cancer.

Studies of anticancer activity in six xanton skin extracted from the mangosteen fruit invitro in human leukemia cells obtained the results that all the tested xanton inhibits cancer cell growth and induces apoptosis. The strongest effect in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells by alpha-Mangostin.

"Seeing the high chemical content of the mangosteen has, the potential for further research done enough. Whether in the field of pharmaceutical and other fields,"