Science supports Traditional Uses of Noni
August 2, 2010 by JoelC2009
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The traditional population of the South Pacific Islands has valued their Noni trees and its fruit as a food staple and medicinal plant for hundreds of generations. Generally known by its scientific name Morinda Citrifolia this bumpy strong smelling fruit is a light green colour. Regardless of being strong smelling, the pacific islanders have used it because of its health benefits. Historically it was used by the native healers in their treatment of common health complaints. We have universities and private laboratories to study the Noni in this century but sometimes the advice of an experienced Tahitian elder still opens up surprising new avenues of use .
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To respond to White Wolf's question about the medicinal and edible properties of sugar, red, and silver maples:
Other than learning about maple syrup, your medicinal plant walk is the first I've been on where anyone has even mentioned the edible and medicinal properties of maples. If I remember correctly, you told me that you can eat the inner bark (cambium layer where the xylem and phloem move through). The cambium is full of sap (sugars, calories, nutrition).
However, when I did some internet research I found that maple syrup (and I'm guessing the cambium too) is full of minerals (including zinc and iron), vitamins (thiamine, calcium, K), and trace amounts of amino acids. One can cook and eat the maple seeds from their winged samara fruits and also eat the tiny young saplings. What about the leaves?
I was not thrilled with the depth, quality or abundance of info. on maples, nevertheless some good sites to look at are:
Wild Branch Medicinal Maple Syrups in Craftsbury, VT infuses medicinal mushrooms and roots into maple syrup. Pretty cool idea! Their site is
Dr. Jim Duke, a forerunner in phytochemical research, has a great Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database covering plants from all over the world He lists silver maples (Acer saccharinum) with astringent properties and red maples (A. rubrum) with vermifuge, tonic and astringent properties, but does not get more specific than that.
This site, , gives a great nutrition table for maple syrup, which is probably from sugar maple (A. saccharum). Most maple syrup comes from because of it's abundance in that particular species (though most maples could be tapped).
The “Plants for a Future Database” also gives medicinal and edible info. for maples:
Hope this helps!
-Anna
RT Norman R. Farnsworth, Renowned Medicinal Plant Researcher … #church #christ #God