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- Also known as:
- Hog apple, wild pine, morinda citrifolia, Indian mulberry,
mengkoedoe, mora de la India, ruibarbo, caribe
- What is it?
- The juice is from the Morinda plant, a green plant native to Asia,
Australia and Polynesia.
- Adverse Reactions:
- Morinda citrifolia is listed in the Food and Drug Administration's
unofficial Poisonous Plant Database. Information is obtained from current
literature and lists those plants that may have harmful effects in man or
animals. Neither safety nor effectiveness has been shown.
- Safety and Effectiveness:
- The fruit of morinda citrifolia can be eaten.
- History of use:
- The fruit of the Morinda plant has been used for years by Polynesian
healers for a number of health problems including: sugar diabetes, high
blood pressure, joint pain and aging. Today, the product can be found as a
juice, dried fruit or powder. People use it to treat heart problems, for
joint pain, headache, stomach and liver problems. Modern writings claim that
it helps the immune system fight cancer and parasites. Parts of the Morinda
plant show promise against parasites and as a calming agent. Studies in mice
with a certain type of lung cancer have lived longer, mostly as a result of
Morinda acting on the immune system. No studies of its effect on cancer or
HIV have been performed on humans.
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