Mengkudu Juice to Keep Your Heart Healthy
"Mengkudu (Noni) is believed to have beneficial properties because it contains 60 substances that are useful in the treatment of disease. It has even been scientifically proven, that many noni medicinal products on the market are sold freely. One of them is to maintain the heart health."Published by : administrator - 06/08/2020 11:55 WIB
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The heart is the single most important organ in human body. Therefore, it is important to maintain and care for the heart to stay healthy. However, unhealthy lifestyle, such as junk food eating foods habits, obesity, abstaining from doing any physical exercises, smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages may trigger heart problems.
You may consume mengkudu (noni, Morinda citrifolia) to maintain heart health and treat heart problems. Physiologist from Johns Hopkins University (USA), Neil Solomon MD PhD, revealed that mengkudu contains scopoletin which is useful for expanding clogged blood vessels leading to the heart. Smooth blood flow does not cause the heart to overwork in pumping blood, so that blood pressure stays normal.
If you want to keep your heart stay in shape, mengkudu juice is worth a try. Check out the following recipe.
Ingredients:
- 1 ripe mengkudu
- Salt or sugar, choose one of them
- 600 ml water
How to make:
- Wash the mengkudu and remove the seeds.
- Add a little water and blender it until smooth.
- Prepare 600 ml water in a pan and pour the mengkudu juice into it.
- Add a little salt/sugar, keep stirring constantly until it boils.
- After boiling, remove from heat and strain the water.
- Mengkudu juice is ready to be served.
You may consume 30 ml of mengkudu juice 3 times a day to keep the heart health. In addition, to further prevent heart problems, you also need to adopt a healthy lifestyle, do exercise, and make regular health checks.
Source:
Trubus. 100 Plus Herbal Indonesia: Bukti Ilmiah dan Racikan. Depok: PT Trubus Swadaya
