Jamblang fruit (Syzygium cumini) is not a fancy fruit, this tree can grow anywhere, no need to be treated with special. Jamblang is good quality, growing in the lowlands to a height of 500 mdpl.
In Aceh Jamblang is very easy to find, but some areas in Indonesia fruit full of many kasiat this has begun to rare.
According to experts, this Jamblang tree is from Asia and Autralia tropic region.
The Jamblang tree is now grown throughout the tropics and subtropics. Many also grow wild in teak forests and cultivated as fruit trees in the yard.
This tree requires great rainfall for good growth. Jamblang is also grown in flood plains.
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To multiply the tree Jamblang is enough to spread the seeds, but the superior cultivars can be propagated by graft.
Jamblang fruit should be eaten after picking in fresh condition, delicious mixed with salt.
This way of eating is also done by Indians and Filipinos. Jamblang fruit can reduce stains on the teeth, but it is also rich in vitamins A and C can also be used as juice, jelly or wine. In the Philippines, jamblang wine is commercially grown.
Jamblang fruit and trees store many of the benefits of jamblang fruit flesh that tastes sour sweet nutritious lung organ, stop coughing, peluruh urine (diuretic), peluruh fart (karminatif), improve digestive disorders, stimulate salivation, and lower blood glucose (hypoglycemic ).
Jamblang bark efficacious for menstrual peluruh. The results showed that the seeds, leaves, and bark of Jamblang have the efficacy of lowering blood glucose level (hypoglycemic effect) in people with diabetes mellitus type II.
Research in India to get results that potential fruit jamblang as a contraceptive in men.
In animal experiments, jamblang can prevent the occurrence of cataracts due to diabetes.
Jamblang also reduces the risk of atherosclerosis to 60-90% in diabetics. This happens because the content of oleanolic acid in jamblang can suppress the role of free radicals in the formation of atherosclerosis,
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Sources :
https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamblang
