Fruits

• Apple: Apples are good to treat body odor, burns, cholesterol, constipation, dandruff, dental problems, diarrhea, gallstones, infection, insect bites, and itching. Some people believe that, when an apple is cut crosswise, it reveals a pentagram, which is an ancient symbol of magic.
• Acai Berry: Acai is dark purple berry with single inedible seed. Because of the special handling required for this fruit, you may never see fresh or whole frozen açaí berries in supermarket.
• Amla: Amla is an ingredient of a large number of Indian Ayurvedic preparations. The important ones, in which amla is the main ingredient are: Amalaki Rasayana, Triphala, and Chavanprasha. According to Ayurveda, it is sour but not acidic like other fruits.
• Banana: Bananas are native, in various forms, from India and Burma through the Malay Archipelago to New Guinea, Australia, Samoa and tropical Africa. It’s universally cultivated in tropical regions.
• Bilberry: Same as the blueberry, only more noted for its medicinal uses. Fruit can be either blue-black or red. Both kinds of blueberries are more closely related to the cranberry.
• Blueberry: Bilberry and blueberry, both are different. Bilberry is blue all the way through, blueberry’s inner fruit is white. Blueberry is native to North America. The berry has a flared crown and is deep purplish blue.
• Cherry: Cherry teaches you how to be young at heart. It attract love, expand your spiritual awareness, and increase fertility. Cherries contain high levels of melatonin, which helps improve sleep, builds up the immune system, and helps improve the functioning of the heart.
• Chinese Water Chestnut: Studies done in Europe found that horse chestnut helps to increase blood flow, strengthens connective tissue, tightens veins, and decrease redness and inflammation.
• Coconut: Coconut water is an excellent food remedy for gastritis. It gives the stomach necessary rest and provides vitamins and minerals. Warm coconut oil mixed with camphor, should be massaged in case of stiff and aching joints.
• Cranberry: A well-known household remedy, cranberry is commonly taken for urinary tract problems such as cystitis and urethritis. For kidney stones, drink two 8-ounces glasses of cranberry juice each day.
• Custard Apple: Custard apple is traditionally used for curing a variety of ailments such as ulcer, dysentery, anti ovulatory, hair problems, burning sensation, hysteria and fainting spells.
• Dragon Fruit: Red dragon fruits are native to Mexico, central America and Antilles. In Mexico they are known as Pitahaya. Yellow pitayas are native to northern south America.
• Fig: Figs are restorative and the best fruit that can be taken by those who are brought low by long sickness. The juice of fresh figs is a traditional home remedy for kidney stones.
• Goji Berries: Chinese wolfberry are good tasting, sweet, reddish dried berries from Tibet and China. Gojis can be eaten whole alone and can be used in cooking.
• Grapes: Traditionally, grapes are used to cool fevers and, as part of a grape fast, promote tissue cleansing. Grape seed extract is, as the name implies, the extract of grape seeds.
• Grapefruit: Pink grapefruit is rich in vitamin A, and acts as a natural antioxidant. Pink grapefruit contains lycopene which has antioxidant properties are helpful in cancer prevention and treatment.
• Guava: Guavas are small, thin-skinned tropical fruits. They are often processed into jellies, jams and preserves, but they can also be consumed fresh. The fruits are round to pear-shaped, usually less than 3 inches in diameter, with green or bright-yellow skins; some have a reddish blush.
• Jackfruit: Jackfruit (vegetable meat) is a fleshy fiber fruit. It is common fruit in southwestern region of the country apart from the neighboring countries like Shri Lanka and Bangladesh. It is a tropical fruit which is so big in size that it can feed a large family.
• Jambul: It is regarded in traditional medicine as a specific against diabetes because of its effect on the pancreas. The fruits as such, the seeds and fruit juice are all useful in the treatment of this disease.
• Jojoba: Indian jujube is found both wild and cultivated throughout the greater part of India, ascending to an altitude of about 1500m in the Himalayas. For dry hair jojoba oil and avocado makes excellent effect.
• Kiwifruit: Although kiwifruit originated from China, it has been developed commercially in New Zealand, and subsequently elsewhere. New Zealand is now the world leader in kiwi production and has adopted this fruit as a national symbol.
• Kokum: It is about two inches in diameter, with a thin, smooth, yellowish rind and a yellow, succulent, sweet pulp. The fruit is of an exceedingly sharp but pleasant acid and the aril, or pulp, is by far the most palatable part.
• Lychee: Eating lychee frequently is good for people with heart palpitation. Litchi seeds are prescribed in Malaya for neurological disorders and orchitis. Nutrition facts, health benefits, adverse effects and an in-depth look at the science behind lychees.
• Mango: In India, mango is known as king of fruit. All parts of the mango plant are used in traditional South Asian medicine, but the fruits are most important. Mangoes are high in beta carotene, which gives a yellowish-orange color to them.
• Noni: Noni is a Tahitian and Hawaiian fruit. Noni has been traditionally used as food and medicine for a wide range of medical conditions. Wrapping noni leaves around affected areas can cure arthritis, sore and swollen joints, stomachache and headache.
• Olive: The olive is a handsome, long-lived, evergreen, subtropical tree, and has been cultivated for at least 4,000 years for its edible fruit and valuable oil. Olives are rich source of isoleucine, vitamin E.
• Orange: Orange fruit contains calcium, sodium, vitamin C, citric acid. In the treatment of measles, the most valuable food is the orange. The orange is effective food remedy in chronic indigestion.
• Papaya: A sweet-tasting fruit and native to tropical America, papaya while unripe contains digestive enzymes that complement the body’s own digestive juices.
• Peach: Peaches originated in China several thousand years ago and were venerated as fruits of immorality. Not only fruit but leaves and nark also useful to make many excellent home remedies.
• Pear: Pear is a delicate, aristocratic, temperate zone fruit. America’s most widely grown pear, the Bartlett, is bell-shaped, with yellow skin and a red blush when ripe.
• Persimmon: Persimmon is native to China, where it has been cultivated for centuries. It spread to Korea and Japan, where it is popular with name “kaki”.
• Pineapple: These plump, heavy fruits with fresh, green crown leaves, emit a fragrant aroma and have a very slight separation of the eyes or pips. Pineapples bear fruit on a long stalk after a year and a half.
• Pomegranate: Recent research has focused on pomegranate juice as a preventative for prostate and colon cancer, and as a support for a healthy heart and circulation. Pomegranate juice is rich in iron. It can be used as blood builder, to correct drowsiness and to fight fatigue due to anemia.
• Prune: Prunes are the firm-fleshed variety of plums with a high enough sugar content to permit drying without fermentation around the pit. Dried plum fruit or prunes are used as laxative and also as stomachic.
• Sapodilla: Chikoo is small egg shaped brown in color. Unripe fruit is hard and with high latex where as ripe cheeku is soft and with less latex. Sapodilla is native to tropical America. In India, apart from medicinal uses, chiku is used in some reference.
• Strawberries: Strawberry is a perennial plant with rooting runners that usually bears red fruit once it is developed. Everyone love strawberries just for the eating experience and the many pleasures of their color, fragrance, and taste.
• Watermelon: It is a large oblong or roundish fruit of a vine of the cucumber family. It has a hard green or white rind, and a pink or red pulp with a copious sweet juice. Watermelon fruit is an excellent source of antioxidant vitamin C and provitamin A.
• Wood Apple: Wood apple is different from Bael Fruit. Wood apple It has cooling, astringent and tonic properties and is used as a stomachic. Wood apple juice is a good health drink and provides a rich source of antioxidants.

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