JAVA PLUM
Product No. P10005
Also known as Jambul, Jambol, Jambolan, Jamun, Jaman, Black Plum, Indian Blackberry, Doowet, Syzygium jambolanum and Syzygium cumini.
Java Plum is a large, evergreen, tree from the Myrtaceae (Myrtle) family, originating in the region between eastern India and Myanmar (Burma). It is a relatively common tropical tree, which grows up to 50 to 80ft tall, to an altitude of 5,900ft, and it now grows easy in sub-tropical climates and in Florida, USA.
The Java Plum tree has oblong leaves that are smooth, glossy and have a turpentine smell. The bark is scaly and grey, and the trunk forks into multiple trunks about 3 – 5ft from the ground. It has fragrant white flowers in branched clusters at the stem tips, and purplish-black, oval edible berries. The tree starts bearing fruit at 4 - 7 years, and each berry has only one seed. The juicy fruit-pulp contains resin, gallic acid and tannin; it has an acidic to fairly sweet taste.
All parts of the java plum can be used medicinally and it has a long tradition in alternative medicine. In the Philippines and Suriname wine is made from the fermented fruit, and the leaves are used for diarrhoea and fever. The seed is used to stabilise blood pressure, and along with the bark, leaves and flowers, to treat diabetes.
In India the bark is used for anaemia, the bark and seed for diabetes, the fruit for dysentery, and the leaf juice for gingivitis (bleeding gums).
It has long been used in the Ayurvedic system of medicine to reduce the level of sugar in the blood. Used over a period of several weeks, it can diminish the thirst associated with diabetes and decrease the quantity of urine output, and in some cases can lower the need for medical insulin.
Today, Java Plum is used as a mild astringent and pungent carminative, and as a supportive therapy in the treatment of hyperglycaemia and diabetes mellitus and associated symptoms of thirst and frequent urination.
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