Ampalaya 


Is a remarkable health food.As the English name suggests (bitter melon), the melon has a bitter taste due to the presence of momordicin. Ampalaya is a vegetable grown throughout the Philippines. It is mostly cultivated, although wild forms can be found. the Ampalaya is both a nutritious vegetable and a trusted medicinal herb that grows abundant in many regions in Asia and South America. Ampalaya comes in a variety of shapes and sizes. The typical Chinese phenotype is 20 to 30 cm long, oblong with bluntly tapering ends and pale green in color, with a gently undulating, warty surface.

Today, the Bitter Melon is well-accepted as a useful supplement and is readily available in many commercial variants all over the world. Bitter melons are seldom mixed with other vegetables due to the strong bitter taste, although this can be moderated to some extent by salting and then washing the cut melon before use. Ampalaya, until recently has been proven to be an effective herbal medicine for many aliments. Most significant of which is for Diabetes. Ampalaya contains a mixture of flavanoids and alkaloids make the Pancreas produce more insulin that controls the blood sugar in diabetics. 

Aside from Ampalaya's medicinal value, it is good source of vitamins A, B and C, iron, folic acid, phosphorous and calcium. Ampalaya is also rich in antioxidants that protect the cells of the body from damage of free radicals (metabolic by-products, usually waste). Ampalaya is noted to be an effective component in herbal medicine, and the fruit is known to help treat, or alleviate the symptoms of rheumatism and gout and ailments of the spleen and liver. The traditional remedy is made by pounding the raw fruits into a bitter liquid, or by boiling the leaves and fruits for a few minutes, the resulting water then drank as a herbal tea.

As the acrimonious fruit is renowned for its many healthful attributes. For coughing, fever, worms, diarrhea, diabetes, drink a spoonful every day of grounded and juiced ampalaya leaves. For new health conditions, the fruit and leaves can both be juiced and taken orally. For wounds, burns and new rind diseases, you may use the fruit's warmed leaves to the stricken region. Taking juice made from acrimonious gourd too helps in the handling of impairment, which is mainly caused by unsound eating habits and regular dietary practices. This fruit not simply is better at relieving an indigestive circumstance, but too aids in treating impairment.




TRADITIONS & FOLKLORE HEALTH BENEFITS

In the Philippines, the ampalaya leaves are mostly applied for children's coughs. It is as well applied in the medication of skin ailments, infertility in women, as a parasiticide, as an antipyretic, and as a purgative. In traditional belief, parasites within the body are extracted whenever ampalaya juices made from leaves are taken.

Decoction of leaves and roots can be used for cough, fever, worms, diarrhea, diabetes and as a stringent to cure hemorrhoids. Both leaves and fruits can be both juiced and taken orally.

Also, warmed leaves can apply to headaches, wounds, burn and some skin infections.

Seeds are as well utilized to eject worms. Extracted juice from fruit applied for dysentery and unceasing colitis. The vine or the juice of leaves used as mild purgative for children. In large doses, the fresh juice is a drastic purgative.

Decoction of roots and seeds used for urethral discharges. Pounded leaves used for scalds. Mixtures of leaves or leaf juice cure fevers.

In Jamaica, leaf decoction or infusion is taken for colds, as medicine and blood cleanser. Warm tea infusions also used for toothaches and mouth infections. Also used as a bath/wash for skin eruptions and acne.

Used for eczema, malaria, gout, jaundice, abdominal pain, kidney (stone), leprosy, leucorrhea, piles, pneumonia, psoriasis, , rheumatism, fever and scabies. 


AMPALAYA

Among the vegetables grown in the Philippines, ampalaya is one of them. Which grown even in wild areas of the Philippines like the wild distant regions of Batanes. Ampalaya or bitter melon possesses a bitter taste due to its momordicin content. Sufficient researches and studies have been conducted on the efficiency of utilizing ampalaya in the medication of diabetes. It has been exposed to amplify generation of beta cells by the pancreas, thus enhancing the bodys aptitude to generate insulin. As recommended by the Department of Health of the Philippines, it is one of the supreme herbal remedy due to its potential to sustain liver difficulties, diabetes and HIV.


SCIENTIFIC HEALTH BENEFITS

One of the very effective elements in herbal medicine is the amplaya. Ampalaya fruit
is identified to cure and lighten the indications of rheumatism and gout and sickness within the spleen and liver. It is as well efficient in aiding reducing the bodys sugar and blood pressure levels. 

The following are the various advantageous features of applying bitter gourd: 

Superior for rheumatism and gout
Cures disease on spleen and liver
Lower sugar and blood pressure levels
Ease headaches
As antibacterial for wounds and burns
Remedy for cough and fever
Treats intestinal parasites and diarrhea
Averts some type of cancer
Improve immune system
Good antioxidant, antibacterial and antipyretic agent