Mahogany Fruit Benefits

Latin name: mahagoni Swietenia Jacq.
Synonym: = S. macrophylla, King. = S. mahagoni, (Bl.), Jacq.
Familia: Meliaceae
Mahogany can be found growing wild in the forests of teak and other ternpat places close to the beach, or planted on the roadside as a shade tree. Plants originally from the West Indies, can flourish when grown in brackish sand close to shore. Trees, annual, 5-25 m high, riding roots, trunk rounded, much branched and gummy wood. Leaves even-pinnate compound leaves, leaf blade oval shape, the tip of the base and tapering, flat edge, bone pinnate, 3-15 cm long. Young leaves are red, after the old green. The flowers are arranged in a bouquet of compound interest that came out of leaf armpit. mother flower stalk cylindrical, light brown color. Petals off one another, shaped like spoons, green color.

Cylindrical crown, brownish yellow, the stamens attached to corolla, anthers white, brownish yellow. The new mahogany flowering after the age of 7 years. The fruit is fruit box, oval, notched five, the color brown. Seeds flat, black or brown color. Mahogany is a producer of hardwood trees and is used for furniture and engraving, Propagation by seed.

Local title:
Mahagoni, maoni, monitor.;
High blood pressure (hypertension), Lack of appetite, fever; Diabetes (Diabetes mellitus), Cold, eczema, rheumatism;
Utilization:
The Used Part:
Seeds, dried and then finely ground into powder.

Usefulness:
- High blood pressure (hypertension).
- Diabetes (Diabetes mellitus).
- Lack of appetite,
- Rheumatism.
- Fever.
- Cold.
- Eczema.

Usage:
To drink: 1 / 2 teaspoon of seeds that have been finely ground into powder.
1. Hypertension:
a. 8 grams of freshly brewed beans with 2 cups hot water. After
cold filtered and then divided into 2 parts. Drinking in the morning and afternoon
days.
b. 1 / 2 teaspoon powdered beans brewed mahogany with 1 / 2 cup
hot water, add 1 tablespoon of honey. Drink while
warm, do it 2-3 times a day.

2. Diabetes:
1 / 2 teaspoon powdered beans brewed mahogany with 1 / 3 cup water
heat. Drunk while warm, 30 minutes before eating. Perform
2-3 times a day.

3. Less appetite:
1 / 2 teaspoon powdered beans brewed mahogany with 1 / 3 cup water
heat, add 1 tablespoon of honey. Drink while warm,
do 2-3 times a day.

4. Fever, colds:
1 / 2 teaspoon of powdered seeds mahoni.diseduh with 1 / 4 cup water
heat, then add 1 tablespoon of honey. Drunk while
warm, do it 2-3 times a day.

Fruit mahogany has a substance called flavonolds and saponins.
Flavonolds itself known to be useful for blood circulation. So for people with diseases that cause blockage of blood flow can use this fruit as a medicine. Efficacy flavonolds is also able to reduce cholesterol, accumulation of fat in the blood vessels, reduce pain, bleeding and bruising, as well as acting as an antioxidant to eliminate free radicals.
Meanwhile, saponins have efficacy for the prevention of pestilence, it could be to reduce the fat in the body, helps improve the immune system, prevent blood clotting, and strengthen liver function and slow the blood clotting process.
Now many are sold in mahogany fruit extract form. Even in the container, mahogany efficacy was allegedly able to raise the breast, but also estimated to be very useful for skin smoothness.