A Young Scientist From The Philippines Discover Potential Diabetes Cure In Aratiles

[raj1461]

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[Godfrey]

It could be true. I had one day eaten 4 or 5 of these fruits. The next day my sugar level was quite low. I kept looking back to see what change was there in my diet. This fruit was the only one. We need to see whether it controls or cures. Details of this study will be very useful. This fruit is available plenty in Bangalore. They have many trees on the road side.

[sandybrown in reply to Godfrey]

A food diary always help with many health problems including alergy

[soni1 in reply to Godfrey]

where is it available in bangalore...what is the local name

[Haldin21 in reply to soni1]

Looks like each country in the following has astutely named the cherry after its own: Jamaica Cherry, Malaysia Cherry, Panama Cherry, Singapore Cherry, etc ...

Hmm, you could do the same and called it "Bangalore cherry / India cherry" !! At present, it's been called :

Tamil : Sarkarai Pala Maram, Seeni pala maram, Ten pazham தேன் பழம்

Telugu : Nakkaraegu

Kannada : Gasagase hannina mara

Hindi : Paanchara, Ten Pazham, Nakkaraegu

Marathi Paanchara पांचारा

[Godfrey in reply to soni1]

It is available on road sides all around Bangalore.

[Haldin21]

Thanks for the info, Raj - further research yielded the following which you might want to take a look at below - note that not only are the fruit but also the leaf extracts are glucose lowering :

"Antihyperglycemic / Antioxidant / Leaves: Study evaluated Muntingia calabura leaves extracts for in vitro antioxidant and antidiabetic property in Streptozotocin-Nicotinamide induced type II diabetic rat model. In four complementary antioxidant assays, the ethanolic extract of leaves showed high phenolic and flavonoid content. Treatment of STZ-N induced type II diabetic rats with the extracts caused a significant reduction in fasting glucose level in a dose dependent manner. All the extracts showed dose-dependent antioxidant and anti-hyperglycemic activity with potential to protect against free radical medicated damages." Source : cloudmind.info/philippine-m...

Tamil Names: Sarkarai Pala Maram, Seeni pala maram, Ten pazham.

[1] Antihyperglycemic / Antioxidant / Leaves:Antioxidant and in vivo anti-hyperglycemic activity of Muntingia calabura leaves extracts / Aruna Sindhe M, Yadav D. Bodke* and Chandrashekar A / Der Pharmacia Lettre, 2013, 5 (3):427-435

[2] Wikipedia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munti...

[3] Google images : google.com/search?tbm=isch&...

[sandybrown in reply to Haldin21]

Keep it simple! Eat less food avoid unwanted food exercise can help.

[Haldin21 in reply to sandybrown]

Zip that reply in your own pocket and MYOB.

[sandybrown in reply to Haldin21]

Will do

[matru13-ashram]

What is the kannada name of that fruit and where do we get in Bangalore

[Haldin21 in reply to matru13-ashram]

Tamil: Sarkarai Pala Maram, Seeni pala maram, Ten pazham தேன் பழம்

Telugu: Nakkaraegu

Kannada: Gasagase hannina mara

Hindi : Paanchara, Ten Pazham, Nakkaraegu

Marathi Paanchara पांचारा

Source : plantingman.com/muntingia-c...

[Haldin21 in reply to matru13-ashram]

You yourself might want to grow the fast-growing tree [oddly called Strawberry Tree] !!

Check out the Youtube videos on this webpage : youtube.com/results?search_...

[Praveen55 Moderator]

raj1461 Haldin21

Thank you very much for posting the interesting information!

[Haldin21 in reply to Praveen55]

You're welcome, Praveen. I remember eating the fruit when playing around in the garden with my cousins. The tree certainly brings back pleasant memories of childhood and the fun my relatives and I had then. Not only the fruit but also the leaves (as tea infusion) and roots are antihyperglycemic, from what I read in the scientific literature.

For more info, take a peek at the webpages below :

herbpathy.com/Uses-and-Bene...

stuartxchange.com/Aratiles

[Praveen55 Moderator in reply to Haldin21]

I remember having seen some of these trees at IISc Bangalore Campus.