HOW TO USE GRAVIOLA

While native populations in areas like the tropics and the Amazon have been aware of graviola's medicinal properties for centuries, western medicine is just now beginning to research the healing powers of this plant.

Below lists how graviola's leaves, bark, seeds and fruit can be used to fight a number of ailments and disorders.

How to use graviola

• Graviola fruit for juice

If the graviola fruit is available, make juice or eat it raw. In the tropics, graviola can be found in local markets (also called sour sop or guanábana). The sour, delicious fruit can also be used to make frozen deserts. The actual fruit is good for combating intestinal parasites, bring down fevers, increase mother's milk production and stop diarrhea.

• Graviola leaves and bar for tea

Make tea from graviola bark and leaves. This bitter tea is used to treat a wide range of ailments and disorders including insomnia, hypo- and hypertension, seizures and diabetes.

• Unriped graviola fruit and leaves for oil

Make graviola oil by crushing the leaves and unripened fruit of the plant and then mixing them with olive oil. When rubbed on the body, this oil can treat neuralgia, rheumatism, arthritis, boils, sores, rashes and other dermatological disorders.

• Graviola seeds for environmentally friendly pesticide

Crush the seeds. The seeds of the plant function as a pesticide. When crushed into a powder they can be used to combat head lice. Crushed graviola seeds can be used against external and internal parasites.

• Graviola drugs for cancer

Wait for the pill. A 1976 study by the National Cancer Institute identified a chemical compound in graviola that may be used in the future to combat particularly resistant forms of cancer. Currently, pharmaceutical companies and universities are conducting research on graviola, to develop a new form of chemotherapy.

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