It is said that Noni is a fruit that works miracles ... Polynesians have been using medicinal noni for more than 2,000 years. Traditionally, all parts of the plant are used: leaves, roots, bark, flowers, and fruits. There are about forty traditional remedies containing either part of the plant.
This tree is one of the few fruit trees in the creation that produces fruit 365 days a year. Larger trees can grow up to 10 meters tall. Some trees can produce up to two tons of fruit a month. It is important to pick the fruit of noni at the time of optimal maturity to obtain a higher quality juice. Attention, the mature fruit has a rather unpleasant smell. Do not be fooled by appearances, its juice keeps all its virtues.
About the size of a potato, the fruit of the noni has the appearance of a dented polygon with a semi-translucent waxy skin that can vary in color from green to yellow and almost whitish when picked from the fruit. It has many reddish nuclei that contain several seeds.
Research on noni
The interest of science for noni is relatively recent. In the 1980s, biochemist Ralph Heinicke mentioned that noni was rich in proxeronine. According to him, this substance would be transformed by the body into xeronine, an alkaloid that plays a key role in various immune processes.
In vitro and animal studies have confirmed that fruit and root extracts can stimulate the immune system. The fruit extracts would, in addition, have antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties.
In addition, extracts of root, leaves, and fruit tested on animals, accelerated the healing of wounds. They were also able to reduce the sensation of pain (analgesic effect) and to reduce edema (anti-inflammatory effect); which tends to validate certain traditional uses of the plant.
The researchers also found in noni antioxidant substances that could protect the body against damage from oxidative stress, especially against dyslipidemia and cancer.
External uses
External uses mainly include the treatment of wounds, wounds, and inflammation.
Internal uses
The internal uses are very varied: rheumatism, arthritis, menstrual disorders, sore throat, diarrhea, cancer, stimulation of the immune system, bacterial, viral, parasitic or fungal infections, etc.
Marketing
The noni juice has boomed thanks to promotional campaigns presenting it as a panacea: the US sales increased from the US$ 33 million per year in 1999 to the US $ 250 million in 2007. The noni has been commercial crops in both the Pacific Islands, such as Tahiti and Hawaii, Australia and, more recently, Florida.
Noni juice distributors say, in their websites or on their advertising flyers, that their product can relieve or cure many diseases such as cancer and diabetes, through hypertension, allergies, migraines, without forgetting Alzheimer's disease, fibromyalgia, arthritis, and obesity ... None of these claims are based on quality clinical data.
Commercial noni juices and concentrates have generally undergone a transformation that masks the smell of fruit. The dried extracts of noni, presented in the form of capsules or tablets, also make it possible to overcome this disadvantage.
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