Fruits for your health

mangosteen fruit for health benefits have long been sounding indeed. fruit called Garcinia mangostana l latin is known to have the world's highest antioxidant content.

not just meat, overseas, mangosteen peel is used as an ingredient for dietary supplement capsules, antioxidant, anticancer up. moment in Indonesia, mangosteen skin developed a cure for pneumonia or pneumonia.

team of students majoring in chemistry education and science faculty of mathematics, and natural sciences (Mathematics) yogyakarta national campus consisting of Desiana nur Fajari, arry darmawan, anifatur Rosyidah successfully developed pneumonia drug in the form of syrup from mangosteen peel. according Desiana, mangosteen skin are just thrown away before putting something in fact hopes to be developed as drug candidates.

in fact, after carefully peel of mangosteen contains compounds with most pharmacological activities, eg anti-inflammatory, antihistamine, cure heart disease, antibacterial, antifungal therapy especially for healing or hiv disease. The main content of most compounds reported mangosteen rind partly responsible for the pharmacological activities of the group xanton.

"One of the benefits of the mangosteen rind xanton are compounds that could cure pneumonia. within the meaning of wet lung medical bhs is pneumonia, which is an infection of one or 2nd lungs are generally caused by bacteria, viruses, or fungi, said Desiana like UNY written from site to site.

Desiana explained, diffusion test results show the inhibition of Klebsiella pneumoniae inhibition zone of approximately 11 millimeters. of these results can be interpreted that the lack of inhibition zone numbers Klebsiella pneumonia on existing xanton syrup due to the inhibition zone 10 mm below do not apply or can not be counted as an inhibitory