For Health Benefits of Guava

For health benefits of guava include treatment of diarrhea, dysentery, constipation, cough, runny nose, skin care, high blood pressure, weight loss and scurvy.

Many of you may have to taste the delicious eating guava, or at least have seen or heard about it. Guava is very common in Asian countries. The fruit is pear-shaped or round, green or yellow or maroon when ripe, with white or maroon flesh and lots of small seeds in the flesh of the fruit is soft and sweet. Biasayan guava eaten raw (ripe or semi-ripe) or in form of jams and jellies.
The following are the health benefits of guava for:

Diarrhea and dysentery: 

Guava is very rich in astringents (compounds that make your gums feel tighter and fresh after you chew guava leaves or eat raw nuts) that protects the stomach from diarrhea. Astringents are alkaline and have disinfectant and anti-bacterial, thus help cure dysentery by inhibiting microbial growth and eliminate the extra mucus in the intestines. Other nutrients in guava, such as vitamin C, carotenoids and potassium strengthens the digestive system and disinfect it. Guava is also beneficial in gastroenteritis due to reasons stated above.

Overcoming Constipation Guava: 

Guava is one of the sources of dietary fiber. Its seeds, if ingested whole or chewed, serve as excellent laxatives overcome. These two properties of guava help forming the stomach, retaining water and clean your intestines and excretory system thoroughly.

Guava For Cough & Fever:  

The juice of raw guavas or decoction of guava leaves is very helpful in providing relief of cough and cold by loosening cough, reducing mucus, disinfecting the channel throat, respiratory and lungs and inhibiting microbial activity. Guava contain lots of vitamin-C and iron which proved effective in preventing cold and viral infections. In some areas in India, roasted ripe guava is used as a treatment for extreme cases of cough and cold and congestion.

Guava For Skin Care:  

Guava can help improve your skin texture and avoid skin problems more than good dibandingakan beauty creams or skin toner. This is mainly because of astringents in fruits (immature) and leaves. You can benefit by eating the fruits (this help tighten the skin) or by washing your skin with the decoction of the fruit is not yet ripe fruits and leaves. This will brighten and tighten sagging skin. Besides astringents, guava is very-very rich in vitamin A, B, C and potassium, which are very good anti oxidants and detoxifiers and keep your skin glowing and free from aging, wrinkles, and other disorders.

Guava For High Blood Pressure: 

Guava helps reduce cholesterol in blood and prevents it from thickening, thereby maintaining fluidity of blood and reducing blood pressure. Research has shown that foods which lack fiber (such as refined flour) add to blood pressure, due to quick conversion to sugar. Guava is very rich in fiber and hypoglycemic so effectively help lower blood pressure.

Guava To Diet or Weight Loss:  

Guava is very helpful for those who want to lose weight without compromising with the intake of protein, vitamins and fiber. Jambubanyak contain fiber and are rich in vitamins, proteins and minerals, but no cholesterol and carbohydrates that make you feel full faster. Only by taking a medium sized guava at lunch time then you will not feel hungry till night. But ironically, it helps gaining weight in lean and thin people. This may be due to the wealth of nutrients, which keeps your metabolism right helping proper absorption of nutrients.

Another benefit: 

guava helps control diabetes, reduce the risk of cancer Lypocene, guava leaf juice to cure toothache, swollen gums & oral ulcers, heals wounds when applied externally, convulsions, epilepsy, bacterial infections and so on and so forth.