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What Is Noni?

Noni is a fruit much like a pineapple in shape. This herb from the South Pacific can help a variety of modern ailments. If you lived on one of the islands of the south Pacific 2,000 years ago, a trip to the doctor, or, in this case, the sacred medicine man, wouldn't have brought you a prescription, but more likely a dose of noni.

In last few years the natural and Herbal products have become very popular .One among such is the noni fruit that has various benefits over the other kind of herbs and common medicines. In following few paragraphs the reader can get detailed information about noni fruit, its properties, uses and medicinal values. It is normally found in southern parts of Asia, Hawaii, and America and in the West Indies. Noni Fruit is small in size and white in color and has pungent smell. These fruits are oval in shape and have soft skin and have got much juice in it. Noni fruits become light yellowish in color when they are fully ripe.

In some areas like Burma, Fiji and Australia this fruit is eaten raw mostly by the females. In India after drying these noni fruit they are used as dye purpose to color the carpets and turbans. This fruit after drying and crushing can also be used in treating the cuts and the wounds in some cases noni juice after mixing with salt were used in healing the boils and the pimples. Even this fruit was mixed with sugarcane juice to clean the faces as a cleanser medicine.

In and around 1930s fruits were used for internal purpose also to get rid of worms and respiratory problems. Juice of this noni fruit can be preserved for longer duration by bottling them and storing it in specific temperature. This fruit juice is very useful in curing diabetics, treating cancer dieses, arthritis and cardiovascular problems.
Noni is in use in herbal medicines since long time. Its fruits, roots, stems, leaves are used in different types of medicines.

• Noni leaves are used in treatment of rheumatism, ulcers, boils cough and cold, neuralgia, inflammation and gout. Noni leaves can be mashed with other herbal plants and applied to deep wounds.
• Noni Fruit is also in traditional medicinal use like treatment of boils, preparing ointments for sprains, swelling of limbs and bruises.
• Tahitian noni is rich in nutritive constituents like carbohydrates, ascorbic acids, proteins, fructose, fats, glucose, potassium, calcium, sodium, phosphorous, iron and magnesium.

The Noni Juice contains various nutrients that fulfill the requirement of the sound heath. These nutrients are fat, glucose, fructose, ascorbic acid, sodium, magnesium, iron, calcium, phosphorus and carbohydrate. By seeing the various advantages and uses of the Noni juice the European Commission approved it as essential food and permitted to commercialized in 2003.Now days noni juice has become a household name all over the world and used by the all the age groups as a health tonic.

Noni , has been extensively used in folk medicine by Polynesians for over 2,000 years. Noni is a traditional food and medicine in many tropical areas including the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, India, and the Philippines. Ethnobotanical data is plentiful on the uses of the fruit, leaves, and root of the plant. Ancient Hawaiians used noni fruit for both internal and topical applications.

Noni is still used by the local population in Hawaii for sugar control diseases, high vascular pressure, heart health maintenance, abnormal growths, and other chronic disorders, although no controlled clinical studies exist to support these uses. Based on clinical practice and animal studies, a polysaccharide-rich substance from noni fruit juice attacks abnormal cells in several different ways.

Noni fruit juice seems to act indirectly against abnormal growths, primarily through immunostimulatory effects. Animal studies found that adding 10% noni fruit juice to drinking water for one week significantly reduced DNA adduct formation in rodents. DNA adducts change the shape of DNA and initiate the formation of abnormal cells (i.e. chemicals in cigarette smoke are known to cause DNA adducts thereby initiating lung abnormal growths in smokers).

A low dosage of noni juice (6-15mg daily for 4-5 days) reduced the formation of DNA adducts by 30% in the heart, 41% in the lung, 42% in the liver, and 80% in the kidney of female rats. Even more dramatic reductions were obtained in male mice: 60% in the heart, 50% in the lung, 70% in the liver, and 90% in the kidney.

Noni juice also has potent antioxidant activity. Researchers conclude that noni juice could be used in clinical applications as a supplemental agent to reduce side-effects and improve chemotherapy. In animal studies, noni juice treatments prolonged the life span of mice by more than 75%.

Noni Fruit contains: The active ingredients are polysaccharides found in a polysaccharide-rich substance in the water-soluble fraction of the fruit juice. A novel trisaccharide fatty acid ester was recently identified from the fruits of noni. The fruit also contains the plant acids, hexoic acid and octoic acid, and paraffin.

The potassium concentration in noni juice samples was determined and found to be 56.3 mEq/L. Other ubiquitous substances are also found in the fruit. Several noni products are marketed with the information that the key active ingredients in noni are alkaloids called proxeroxine and proeronase. These compounds have yet to be identified by conventional researchers and have not been reported in peer-reviewed scientific publications; it appears that the claims may be false.

Noni Juice as a rich source of potassium, is contraindicated in cases of chronic renal insufficiency. There is a case report on noni juice involving a man with chronic renal insufficiency that self-medicated with noni juice and presented to a clinic with hyperkalemia despite claiming adherence to a low-potassium diet.

It is suggested that individuals work up to the higher dosages slowly, starting with the maintenance dosage of 1 ounce daily, followed by two daily dosages of 1 ounce and so on until the higher dosages are taken several times per day. At the higher dosages, it is recommended to be under the supervision of a qualified medical practitioner familiar with the properties of noni juice.

Noni contains nutritional enzymes, anthraquinones and polysaccharides, all known to have various health benefits. Noni is the common Polynesian name for Noni Juice also Known as Indian Mulberry. The plant indigenous to India, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia, is a Noni of evergreen ranging in size from a small bush to a tree 20 or 30 feet high.

Approximately the size of a potato the Noni fruit has a lumpy appearance and a waxy, semi-translucent skin that ranges in color as it ripens from green to yellow to almost white. Native recognize it sight unseen because of the fruit's rancid smell when fully ripe. This smell decreases some as the fruit is fermented and the juice is prepared. The taste is also improved during this processing.

Noni plant are used to contain fever and as a tonic (Chinese, Japan, Polynesia); leaves, flowers, fruit, bark to treat eye problems, skin wounds and abscesses, gum and throat problems, respiratory ailments, constipation, fever (Pacific Islands, Polynesia); to treat stomach pains and after child birth (Marshall Islands).