Benefits of Soursop Leaf

Soursop is the fruit of Annona muricata, a broadleaf, flowering, evergreen tree native to Mexico, Cuba, Central America, the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, and northern South America, primarily Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela.

This plant is grown commercially for meat fruit. This plant can grow in any place, is best planted in an area that is quite watery. Soursop fruit flesh is white and has black seeds. The fruit is often used as raw material for juice drinks and ice cream. Soursop fruit contains a lot of carbohydrates, especially fructose. The content of other nutrients are vitamin C, vitamin B1 and vitamin B2 which is quite a lot. The seeds are toxic, and can be used as a natural insecticide, as well as sugar apple seeds.


Soursop leaves a lot to contain acetogenins, annocatacin, annocatalin, annohexocin, annonacin, annomuricin, anomurine, anonol, caclourine, gentisic acid, gigantetronin, linoleic acid, muricapentocin. The content of these compounds is a compound that is a lot of benefits for the body, and can be as a drug or disease to boost immunity.

Soursop leaf is always associated with the benefits of mangosteen peel. Both types of plants have become popular because of her contribution to the health of the world is very big for treating a wide variety of serious and chronic diseases. Soursop leaves are usually not so ignored turned into herbal medicine which is highly sought after for alternative traditional medicine to cure the disease. Soursop leaf that has been extracted and manufactured in capsule form can provide ease of taking them.

Here is a list of the properties given soursop in effect as a drug:

Antibacterial: To Inhibit the growth of bacteria
Antivirus: To inhibit the development of virus
Anticancer: To Inhibit cancer progression
Antitumor: To Inhibit tumor growth
Antiparasitic: To Inhibit the development of parasites
Antimalarial: Preventing malaria
Antileishmania: Antileishmania
Antispasmodic: Substances which can relax smooth muscle
Anticonvulsant: anticonvulsants
Astrigen: Substances that wrinkle / shrink mucous membranes
Antimutagenik: Substances that inhibit the gene mutation
Analgesics: Substances that may reduce pain / tenderness
Anti-inflammatory: substances that suppress inflammation
Febrifuge: Substances which can reduce body heat fever
Hypotension: Substances that lower blood pressure
Hypoglycemic: The substance that lowers blood sugar levels
Nervin: To strengthen the nerves / nerve tonic
Kardiodepresan: Pressing the activity of the heart
Galactogogue: Substances that can increase milk production
Tranquilizers: Substance soothing
Stomakik: Substances that strengthens the stomach and increases appetite
Vasodilators: substances that dilate blood vessels
Vermifuge: substances that can kill intestinal worms
Diuretics: The emetic of aurine
Calming: Substance soothing

Other properties that can be felt by taking leaves of the soursop is to reduce the pain of minor ailments such as muscle merileksasi, suppress inflammation, reduce fever, reduce stress, treat mild cough, back pain and many more ailments that can be treated using soursop leaves. And treatment with soursop leaves can be a cheaper solution than buying chemical drugs which are quite expensive. Moreover, soursop leaves can also be used topically to treat skin diseases such as treating ulcers and treat eczema and rheumatism are disturbing.

In consume soursop leaves as a remedy for the benefit of soursop leaves is sometimes feels less unpleasant because of the smell of soursop leaf itself is very pungent. To further simplify the usual consume boiled soursop leaf to take water for drinking, cooking water soursop leaves can also be added to honey. Mixing honey with water soursop leaves that will be taken will not eliminate the benefits of soursop leaf to cure the disease.