I have lumped high blood pressure, heart disease and strokes together, because they are all interrelated in the body’s circulatory system. In a heart attack, there is not enough nutrient rich oxygenated blood to nourish the heart muscle cells. As a result, some heart muscle cells die. When enough cells die, you have a heart attack. It can be sudden, as a result of a cholesterol / calcium / fibrin clot to the coronary artery, or an embolus, which is a clot that breaks away from another part of your body and ends up clogging your coronary arteries. Another scenario would be if your coronary artery goes into spasm, preventing adequate blood flow, or you can have a small unistable plaque released that goes toward results in not enough nutrient rich oxygenated blood to sustain heart muscle.

In a stroke, or “brain attack” as some lay people call it, the brian tissue is damaged due to lack of blood flow. The lack of blood can be casued by a blood clot in an artery that has decreased in size because of spasm or atherosclerosis. It can also be caused when a brain (cerebral) artery leaks blood as in a leaking or ruptured aneurysm.

I believe the reasons for Noni’s reported success in helping with high blood pressure are multifaceted. First of all Morinda Citrifolia contains scopoletin, which has been scientifically proven to dilate blood vessels resulting in lower blood pressure. A second reason that many use Noni for high blood pressure is that this fruit drink helps stimulate the body’s production of nitric, oxide, a chemical which allows the blood vessels to dilate more easily and be more elastic. The third reason, I believe is through the xeronine system that promotes a healthy cell structure within the circulatory system.

In 1992, Dr. Isabelle Abbott, brought out the possible uses of noni for controlling diabetes, blood pressure and cancer. It was in 1993 researchers find out the presence of substance called scopoletin in noni, which was responsible for dilating blood vessels. It was also found to interact synergistically with other nutraceutical which are foods acting as medicines to brings down high BP.

Later, owing to the untiring researches conducted by the pharmacologists, noble prize winners in the field of medicine and physiology for the year 1998 Drs. Louis J. Ignarro, Ferrid Murad, and Robert F, Furghgott, a substance called nitric Oxide (NO) a gas which controls the circulation of the blood in our body and a regulator in activities of the brain, lungs, kidneys, stomach and other hormones was found responsible for the control of blood pressure.

Recent studies have shown that noni produces significant Nitric Oxide effect in endothelial cells in vitro. It is believed that is reaction may be calcium dependent.

A part from the link between the nitric oxide under blood pressure, the nitric oxode also plays an important role in pain relief, diabetes, cancer, stroke, viral and parasitic diseases, sunburn, skin disorders, male importance, and in memory and learning disorders.