Muntingia Calabura Linn

Medicineplants. Muntingia calabura Linn is a fast growing tree, 5 to 10 meters high, with spreading branches. Leaves are hairy, sticky, alternate, distichous, oblong-ovate to broadly oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 13 centimeters long, with toothed margins, pointed apex and inequilateral base, one side rounded and the other acute. Flowers are about 2 centimeters in diameter, white, extra-axillary, solitary or in pairs. Sepals are 5, green, reflexed, lanceolate, about 1 centimeter long. Petals are white, obovate, 1 centimeter long, deciduous and spreading. Fruit is a berry, rounded, about 1.5 centimeter in diameter, red on ripening, smooth, fleshy, sweet and many seeded, and these plants are generally planted in the yard.

Muntingia calabura Linn can be use as Antispasmodic and emollient such as Antibacteri, Antinociceptive, Anti-inflammatory, Antipyretic, Cytotoxic, Anticancer, Cardioprotective, Antioxidant, Hypotensive.

Muntingia Calabura Linn. Fruit
In terms of nutritional content of Muntingia calabura Linn fruit is not inferior to others such as mango. Mango in vitamin C 30 mg, whereas 80.5 mg Muntingia calabura Linn, in addition to the calcium content of 124.6 mg cherry fruit, far more than the mango fruit is only 15 mg.

Make juice from Muntingia calabura Linn fruit and drink it everyday as your herbal drink.

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