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Morinda Citrifolia Is One Of Kind Medicinal Plant

Medicinal plants are plants that have content that is able to give the effect of health recovery or healing of an illness.In this world a lot of plants that have content and have the ability to do health care and healing of an illness that has been created by God to his people as a means of healing.

 Almost all over the world each country with its differences in climate will provide the color in some species and varieties of plants that contain a drug ingredient.Usually the diversity of species of medicinal plants is highly dependent on the climate of an area so that it will also be a trigger factor of plant diversity in general.

 The diversity of plants to an area with a tropical climate will be different from a region with a sub-tropical climate so it also will provide a level of wealth of sources of biological raw materials of herbal medicine.

 For a region with a tropical climate will obviously have more variants to the kinds of plants produced, as for the region of southeast Asia here we can find more types of medicinal plants due to climatic factors and weather throughout the year has.

 As an example  one of kind the plant that is generated by the region's tropical climate which are noni.As one of the types of plants that can thrive in various types of climate turns Noni ( Morinda Citrivolia ) has many ingredients of herbal medicine which proved extremely beneficial to human health.

 This plant (Morinda citrifolia) grows in lowland up at an altitude of 1500 m. Noni tree height reaches 3-8 m, has a white flower head. The fruit is a fruit compound, which is still young and has a glossy green spots, and when the old white with black spots.

Traditionally, the people of Aceh to use noni as a vegetable and salad. The leaves are also used as an ingredient nicah peugaga which often appears as a mandatory menu iftar. Therefore, noni is often planted near homes in the countryside in Aceh. Besides noni is also often used as a medicine.

 The origin of noni ( Morinda Citrifolia )

The origin of noni is inseparable with the presence of the people who settled Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean Islands. Polynesian nation is believed to come from (South East Asia). In the year 100 BC, the famous bold adventuring.Tanpa apparent cause them to cross the sea to leave their homeland. There is an impression that the travelers in disappoint with one thing and mean distanced himself from his previous life. After a long wandering, they reached around Polynesia, the islands around the South Pacific. The adventurers fell in love while looking at the beautiful scenery, beach conditions, and island.

 Interestingly, they seemed to have been prepared to move to another island. This can be evidenced by the number of plants and animals that participated brought, because they are essential to sustain life. Some native plants, such as bananas, taro, yams, breadfruit, sugar cane, and noni, brought. Between who brought it, still exist in the form of cuttings and shoots. One of the plants, namely the noni, is considered sacred goods. Since 1500 years ago the islanders were now called the Hawaiian noni know as noni. They suspect the Latin name Morinda citrifolia plant has many benefits. They saw it as Hawaiian magic plant, because the fruit is believed to cure various diseases.

 The characteristic feature of noni ( Morinda Citrifolia ).

@ Tree

Noni tree is not so large, between 4-6 m high. trunk twisted, branchy stiff, rugged, and has a taproot that is plugged in. The bark is grayish-brown or yellowish, split in shallow, hairless, its subsidiaries bersegai four. Editorial evergreen throughout the year. Wood noni easily cleaved after drying. Can be used for support of the pepper plant.

 @ Leaf
Leaved thick shiny. Noni leaf is face to face. Large leaf size, thickness, and single.Perforated-lanceolate shape, measuring 15-50 x 5-17 cm. flat leaf edges, short tapered ends. The base of the wedge-shaped leaves. Pinnate leaf veins. Glossy green color, not fluffy. Short leaf base, measuring 0.5 to 2.5 cm. Stipule varying size, triangular wide. Noni leaves can be eaten as a vegetable. High nutritional value because it contains vitamin A. that he can cure ambein

@ Flowers

 Flowers are arranged compound, rounded hump-type inflorescence, stemmed 1-4 cm, is growing in the armpits Stipule dealing with leaves that grow normally. Pansy flowers, petals white, funnel-shaped, the length can reach 1.5 cm. Stamens stuck in the mouth of the crown. Anthers berputing two. The flowers bloom from the petals shaped like bunches. The flowers are white, fragrant.

@ Fruits

Compound fruit, formed from would-ovaries are fused and excrescence on the inside; fruit development stages following the expansion process of interest starting from the end of the head toward the base; 7.5 to 10 cm diameter. Compound fruit surface as divided into polygonal boundaries (polygons) are speckled and warty, which comes from the rest of the ovaries sole. Green color when half-baked , before cooking to a yellowish white, and finally pale white when ripe. Soft fruit flesh, composed of fruit pyramid-shaped stone with white flesh, formed from mesokarp. Fruit flesh contains a lot of water that smells like rotten cheese or goat odor arising due to mixing between capric acid (a fatty acid with ten carbon atoms), C10), caproic acid (C6) and caprylic acid (C8). Allegedly the last two compounds are active antibiotics

 The content of noni ( Morinda Citrifolia )

Nutrients: the overall Noni is a fruit full of nutritious food. A nutrient that the body needs, such as proteins, viamin, and essential minerals, available in sufficient quantities in fruits and noni leaf. Selenium, a mineral found in noni is a great antioxidant. Various types of compounds contained in noni: xeronine, plant sterois, alizarin, lycine, sosium, caprylic acid, arginine, proxeronine, between multiple quinines, trace elemens, phenylalanine, magnesium, etc.

 Terpenoids:This substance helps in the process of organic synthesis and the recovery of the body's cells.
    An anti bakteri.Zat-active substances contained in the Noni juice can kill the bacteria that cause infections, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Protens morganii, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli. Anti-bacterial substance that can control pathogenic bacteria (off) such as Salmonella Montivideo, S. scotmuelleri, S. typhi and Shigella dusenteriae, S. flexnerii, S. pradysenteriae, and Staphylococcus aureus.

Scolopetin: Scolopetin compound as a very effective anti-inflammatory elements and anti-allergic.
Anti-cancer substances: Anti-cancer substances contained in noni most effective against abnormal cells.

Xeronine and Proxeronine: One important terdapt alkaloids in noni are xeronine. Noni fruit contains very little xeronine, but many contain precursor (precursor) alias xeronine proxeronine in large numbers. Proxeronine is a type of nucleic acid such as other colloids. Xeronine absorbed by the cells of the body to activate proteins that are not active, set the structure and form of the active cell.