11 remedies from guava tree-Life Health

Guava is a nutritious food with many valuable health benefits. Not only that, parts of the guava tree are also used as medicine.

1. Characteristics of the guava tree

Guava tree is also known as iron, phantom pomegranate, guajava. Scientific name Psidium guyjava L. (P. pomiferum L. Psidium Pyriferum L.). Belongs to the Myriaceae family.

Guava is a small tree, about 3-5m high, the small branches are square. The opposite leaves have short petioles, oval shape, smooth or slightly hairy on the upper surface, the lower surface is hairy, the blade is whole, when looking up, there is a clear bag of essential oil.

Flowers white, solitary in the leaf axils. The fruit is a berry with a thick central rind, shape varying depending on the species, at the tip of the fruit a scarred calyx exists. Lots of seeds, kidney-shaped, irregular, slightly tawny.

Guava tree originated in tropical America, then popularized and grown throughout tropical Asia and Africa.

Especially in our country, guava trees grow wild in many mountainous areas in the North, but most of them are grown for their fruit.

In addition, guava also provides the following parts used as medicine: Young buds, young leaves, fruits, root bark and stem bark, but the most commonly used are young buds and young leaves. Use fresh or dry or freeze-dried.

The parts of the guava tree give us many valuable medicinal herbs.

In guava fruit contains pectin and vitamin C. The amount of vitamin varies depending on the part of the fruit and depending on the species, most often concentrated in the outer shell after to the outside of the middle rind.

The leaves and young buds contain 7-10% pyrogalic tannins, psiditanic acid, about 3% resin and very little essential oil (0.36%).

Some authors found in the stem and leaves a triterpenic substance.

In seeds, there are 14% thick oil, aroma, 15% protein and 13% starch.

2. Guava remedies

According to Oriental medicine, guava leaves have a bitter taste, are warm, have the effect of detoxifying, collecting wax, only blood; Guava fruit is sweet, slightly sour, warm, has a beneficial effect on the colon.

Parts of guava are often used to treat loose bowel movements, chronic dysentery, acute and chronic gastroenteritis, hemorrhagic lesions, diabetes…

2.1. Guava cures stomach ache

According to the book Medicinal plants and Vietnamese herbs by Prof. Dr. Do Tat Loi, the green guava fruit is acrid, causing constipation and can be used to treat loose stools. When ripe, guava has a laxative effect. People eat ripe guava or make canned jam.

Young leaves and young guava buds are a remedy for abdominal pain, long experience among people. Usually used in the form of a decoction or mixture. Use 15-20g young buds or young leaves a day, use alone or in combination with other flavors such as tea, ginger…

Root bark and stem bark are also used to treat diarrhea and wash wounds and ulcers. Drinking in people used with a dose of 15g decoction with 200ml of water, cooked to about 100ml.

Guava – nutritious food, medicinal flavor.

2.2. Cure acute diarrhea

According to Herbalist Dinh Thuan, guava buds or guava blisters (guava stem bark) 20g, pods 12g, myrtle buds or buds 12g, tea buds 12g, fresh ginger 12g, banana umbilicus 20g, old areca nut 12g. Special drink.

Or 12g guava buds, 8g guava blister peel, 2g fresh ginger, 8g carpentry bowl, sharp with 200ml of water, she has 100ml left. Children 2-5 years old take 5-10ml each time, every 2 hours. Adults take 20-30ml each time, 2-3 times a day.

2.3. Diarrhea caused by welding

Star guava buds 12g, fresh ginger 8g, grilled with burnt skin. Two good things and 500ml of water, she has 200ml left, divided and drink 2 times a day.

Or guava buds 15g, bare skin 15g and patchouli 18g. Color drink.

2.4. Heat diarrhea

Guava blister 20g yellow star, fresh tea leaves 15g yellow star, sim bud 10g, bare skin 10g, cassava root 10g yellow star. All powdered, adults take 10g each time, children take half the adult dose.

Or 20g yellow star guava peel, 20g yellow star star fruit peel, 20g yellow star tangerine peel, 20g yellow star psyllium cotton. Special hot drink.

2.5. Diarrhea due to weak spleen function

Young guava leaves or buds 20g, fresh roasted ginger 10g, dried wormwood 40g. All colors and 3 bowls of water, she has 1 bowl left, divided and drank several times a day.

2.6. Acute and chronic gastritis and enteritis

Dried guava leaves, powdered, drink 6g each time, 2 times a day.

Or 1 handful of guava leaves, 6-9g fresh ginger, a little salt. All crumpled, ripe and then sharp drink.

Or guava fruit, chain location advantage (crown) and devil herb, each from 9-15g. Color drink.

Guava buds cure diarrhea.

2.7. Treating chronic dysentery

Dried guava 2-3 fruits, sliced, sharp drink.

Or fresh guava leaves 30-60g excellent drink.

2.8. Treatment of acute and chronic bacillus dysentery

Guava leaves 30g, phoenix 30g, licorice 3g. All colors with 1,000ml of water to 500ml, drink twice a day, 50ml each time.

2.9. Diabetes

Guava 250g, washed, cut into pieces, squeezed to get water, divided and drank 2 times a day.

Or dried guava leaves 15-30g, excellent drink daily.

2.10. Toothache

Guava root bark with sour vinegar, sucked several times a day.

2.11. New pimples

Young guava leaves and peach leaves are just enough, washed, pounded and then applied to the affected area.

Taboo: People with constipation or cholera, dysentery with abdominal distention should not use.