DUKU FRUITS

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.infohealthy.net/?p=408)
Duku  Fruits as Health Food Products from the Nature

Vegetables and fruits that have been known by many people, have many benefits for our  bodies, there are benefits that we already know, and there also we do not know, and actually if we know the benefits of fruits and vegetables can maintain our bodies to keep healthy, but of course we must also eat other types of food such as eggs, meat and fish, although without actually consume the various food types, such as the vegetarian, they are still healthy and even some of them say they feel more strongly against various diseases, compared before becoming vegetarian, and now I want to share some of the benefits of health food products from nature that can be used as medicine in our lives.
Duku fruit (Lansium Domesticum) called by the indonesian, or langsat in Malaysia or lanzone in philiphines is medium size, single-trunked tree that usually grows from ten to fifteen meters tall.The plant has pinnately compound leaves that grow to a length of about two to forty fifty centimeters long per leaf.

The duku believed to be native to Malaysia but can also be found in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and most of the tropical countries. In Malaysia, most of the duku is found in the state of Johore. The duku shape is round in shape, ranging from 3 – 5 cm in diameter. The matured fruit is brownish yellow in color with a thick skin an exudes latex when peeled. The duku fruit is a kind of berry with cauliferous habit, that is, fruit forming on the trunk and branches of the tree. Each fruits contains 5 segments. The duku belongs to the group of fruits which have a slow growth rate.

The  benefits, including:
1. Bidder poisonous centipede bite
Seeds of fruit duku be sharpened and placed on the wound or bite
2. Fever in children
seeds from the fruit-polishing duku rubbed with water to the stomach, chest and forehead of
children
3. diarrhea
skin boiled and drink every 4 hours