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Moroni from the fruit of Morinda Citrifolia, popularly known as Noni. Noni is an evergreen tree reaching heights of 15 to 20 feet. Used medicinally for thousands of years, the fruit from the Morinda citrifolia plant is now extolled by mainstream medical physicians, biochemists, modern herbalists, and medical researchers as a miraculous healing substance for modern times.

Although Morinda citrifolia is known. as the Indian mulberry or Och in India, Mengkudo in Malaysia, Ba ji tian in China, Nhau in Southeast Asia, Painkiller bush in the Caribbean, Cheese fruit in Australia, and Nono in Tahiti, it is most commonly known today by the name ancient Hawaiian healers gave it, which is simply Noni. In these countries and others, Morinda citrifolia was historically used to treat conditions that affected the respiratory, digestive, nervous, and immune systems. It was also used to treat joint, skin, and skeletal problems.
 
For medicinal use, traditional healers employ every part of the Noni plant: leaves, roots, bark, seeds, flowers, and fruit. Noni leaves are used for external inflammations as well as wounds and pain relief; root extracts lower blood pressure; the bark has strong astringent properties and is also used to treat malaria; seeds have a purgative action; flower extracts relieve eye inflammations. Noni fruit, the most prized part of the plant, has numerous applications, including many that are listed above. Noni is also very nutritious. In some ancient cultures Noni was a dietary staple and in others only consumed as a source for nourishment in times of famine
The oldest references to Noni date back tens of centuries to India 's ancient Sanskrit writings that cite the use of the Och plant in Ayurvedic medicine. Historians believe that Noni originated in Southeast Asia, and that during an ancient migration to colonize new lands, it was brought to Micronesia and then Polynesia. Polynesia has a rich healing heritage, and knowledge about Noni's medicinal uses was handed down from generation to generation. Scientific literature about Noni is more substantial from this region of the world than from India or any other region.

The Noni plant is an evergreen that can range from a small bush to a 30-foot tall tree. The tree produces a lovely, fragrant white flower that blooms year round. Noni fruit has a lumpy texture, looks similar to a hand grenade, and has a rancid taste and smell when fully ripened. The fruit is covered with reddish-brown pits that contain seeds. Each seed has an attached air sac that allows it to float for months in the ocean. It is thought that this is how Noni may have been transported to various countries centuries ago.

Polynesian historians insist, however, that the Noni plant was considered sacred and brought intentionally to the islands primarily because of its medicinal properties. It was also valued for its nutritional properties and use as a dye. The seafaring Polynesians made voyages from island to island in their ocean-going canoes to colonize new lands. They brought with them only the essentials to survive: food, clothing, tools, and medicinal plants which included the sacred Noni plant.

Throughout Polynesia, the Noni plant was and still is traditionally used to treat pain, inflammation, burns and other skin afflictions, intestinal worms, nausea, food poisoning, fevers, infections, wounds, diarrhea, constipation, menstrual cramps, insect and animal bites, and conditions of aging.
In times past it was often difficult to get people, especially children, to take Noni juice because of its rancid smell and taste. In fact, in the early and mid -1900s Noni was very unpopular in many Polynesian communities because of its unpleasant smell, and many trees were cut down to rid residential areas of the odor. Prior to this, Christian missionaries who came to Polynesia banned Huna, the term for Polynesian natural healing, and medicinal interest in Noni somewhat diminished. The advent of synthetic drugs further diminished the interest of this amazing botanical until recent years.
For literally thousands of years people have used food, herbs, fasting, colon cleansing, and other natural methods to strengthen the immune system and to prevent and cure disease. Surprisingly, according to World Health Organization figures, herbal medicine is still the most widely practiced form of medicine in the world today.
Side effects in varying degrees often accompany the use of allopathic drugs, and synthetic medications do not treat the cause of disease. The allopathic medical approach to treating infectious disease is relatively new but is in serious trouble because of changing pathogenic microbes. Antibiotic-resistant disease has reached epidemic proportions in the world, and the effectiveness of antibiotics is rapidly decreasing. Because of this, scientists are displaying a renewed interest in studying botanicals that traditional healers have proven effective for fighting disease. Morinda citrifolia is emerging as an extremely valuable botanical medicine. Today Noni fruit is a highly prized medicinal commodity just as it was in ancient times.
Fortunately, the current methods of extracting and preparing precious Noni juice eliminate the unpleasant smell and taste without compromising beneficial properties. In addition to therapeutic benefits mentioned above, Noni juice reportedly has helped health problems such as immune-system disorders, bacterial and viral infections, respiratory problems, allergies, arthritis, diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, menstrual cramps, poor digestion, tuberculosis, malaria, influenza, drug and alcohol addiction, and more.
Scientific studies show that Noni has the potential to stimulate the immune system, purify the blood, inhibit tumor growth, regulate proper cell function, and regenerate damaged cells.
 

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