AEGLE MARMELOS;Overview and Facts about Health.

AEGLE MARMELOS;Overview and Facts about Health.

    

Family: Rutaceae ;Genus: Aegle

The fruit grows wild throughout Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Burma. Other countries with minor cultivation include Thailand, northern Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Egypt, a few Caribbean islands, and Surinam. Bael, also known as the “Wood Apple. The bael tree is considered to be sacred to the Hindus. Bael fruit has been known for its medicinal values since 2000 BC.

• Bael fruit is on the whole regarded as the best of all laxatives. It cleans and greatly tones up the total intestines. Its regular use for two or three months throws out even the very older accumulated faecal matter. It should be well if possible taken in its original form and before at dinner. About sixty grams of the fruit are well sufficient for an adults The presence of tannin in the bael fruit helps in curing diseases like diarrhoea and cholera.
• Bel fruits can be consumed as ripe fruits or in juice-form. The ripe bel fruit is sweet and can also be used for making a tasty drink known as wood apple milk. The raw bael fruit is sour to taste and is used to make chutney, while the leaves of the bel fruit tree are used as salad ingredients.The extract of bael leaf can be used to control the cholesterol level in blood which makes the bael leaves highly therapeutic too.
• If fresh fruit is unavailable, used dried bael. to have the same sweetness as fresh fruits, as choose the green, unripe fruits for drying.The dried powder of the fruit is used to treat chronic diarrhoea.
• The extract of bael leaf can be used to control the cholesterol level in blood which makes the bael leaves highly therapeutic too.
• The dried powder of the fruit is used to treat chronic diarrhoea. The extract of unripe bael fruit can effectively treat haemorrhoids and vitiligo. It is also used to treat anaemia, ear and eye disorders. In ancient days, the dried powder of raw bael mixed with turmeric and ghee was applied on fractured bones to treat fracture.
• It energizes the pancreas and makes it produce enough amount of insulin which is necessary to control sugar level in the blood.
• As a good source of beta-carotene, wood apples also cure liver problems. They contain thiamine and riboflavin, both of which are known as liver health boosters, this fruit also functions as an ingredient in cardiac tonics.
• It also boosts the immune system, fights off bacterial and viral infections, reduces inflammation and various inflammatory conditions, prevent cancer, increases milk production for nursing mothers,