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Noni Juice - Kelena - 12-10-2006
What is it and do I need it? Can you make Margaritas out of it? Does a "noni" grow on a tree? Do you have one? How do you juice it? What do you add the juice TO to make it palatable?
Oh, magic Punapeople, enlighten me. I remain your humble servant.
RE: Noni Juice - Carey - 12-10-2006
Glen, Noni is said to have many medicinal qualities and tastes like medicine.
(OK, I don't really like it) BUT it is an unusual fruit. The flower blossom cluster forms a ball, each pollinated flower makes up one part of the fruit. The fruit is a lumpy, oval-ly fruit on a smallish tree with big leaves. (Not my best research, but I really didn't pay attention in class when our field bio. prof. was extolling the virtues... it tastes like... medicine)
Aloha, Carey
RE: Noni Juice - CocoaMoe - 12-11-2006
Aloha check out NoniConnection.com
CocoaMoe
RE: Noni Juice - wyatt - 12-11-2006
Hey Glen I had this article saved on my laptop but could not get a link for it. It was from the West Hawaii Today 1/11/06 issue. I cut and paste it. so there may be a few ads in also.
aloha
Wyatt
Native noni gets noticed
It looks like a grenade and smells like rancid cheese. Yet the fruit of the noni is touted to provide powerful health benefits...
by Karen Anderson
Special To West Hawaii Today
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:12 AM HST
According to local practitioners, keeping fresh noni juice on hand is the equivalent of having a bottle of aspirin at the ready. You take it when you need it or use it sparingly as a preventative.
"My mother made me drink it when I was a child because she thought I was too thin," recalls Janice Kaaloa of Honaunau. "It helps stabilize your appetite whether you are overweight or underweight. My husband John keeps fresh juice on hand if he feel achy after work."
"It's a very good immune system booster," said Momi Subiono, a Hawaiian ethnobotanist based in South Kona who teaches local arts at area schools.
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"For external use, it's great. You can apply it to a burn or a sting and even use it as a conditioner. If you strain out the seeds it doesn't smell too bad, just fruity. You can also treat ukus (head lice) with it. Some Samoans will squeeze the sap from the flower to treat a sty."
Subiono recalls the severe case of sciatica she suffered with for more than two years. She found relief by applying the leaf of the noni to her hip.
"My aunty told me to soften the leaf over an open flame, wear it against my skin and change it twice a day. I did it for two days and I've never had the problem since."
Brought to Hawaii some 1,500 years ago by the Polynesians, the noni plant is a small evergreen tree with shiny leaves that thrives at sea level and is also found in mauka areas up to 1,300-foot elevations.
Some ailments reportedly helped by the plant include high blood pressure, menstrual cramps, arthritis, wounds and infections, ulcers, sore muscles, depression, eating disorders, poor digestion, headaches, fatigue and more. It even has industrial applications -- you can remove oil stains from cement by rubbing noni pulp on the stain, according to Oahu-based Butch Richards, a kumu of medicinal Hawaiian plants.
Hawaiians have been known to use all parts of the noni including roots, stems, bark, leaves, flowers and fruit. It's the fruity pulp, however, that is the most valued for traditional folk remedies, particularly when juiced.
"Noni is a wonderful fruit and a fantastic herbal medicine," said Hulali Jewell, Honaunau resident and maker of pasteurized noni juice and noni soap.
"It's a gift from the land," Jewell said. "It works."
In recent years, the interest in noni outside Hawaii has been on the rise. The craze reached its peak in the late '90s when demand was created by mainland companies eager to market bottled juice as a healing elixir. Local producers paid big bucks for the ripe fruit.
"It kind of went nuts there for a while, but then it calmed down," recalls Jewell. "Now it's a steady market. It gets a little busier during flu season."
Many companies make their juice in the so-called "traditionally fermented" way, allowing fruit to ferment for months before producing the juice. Jewell's juice is made fresh when needed from organic fruit harvested by the Freitas Family Farm in Keei. She questions the notion of using fermented fruit, noting that she has found no evidence of early Hawaiians making noni juice from anything other than freshly ripened fruit.
"It's a good marketing strategy to say it's fermented so that they can let the noni sit around for months, but I always thought there was something wrong with that," she said. "I've done a lot research trying to figure it out and I've found that Hawaiians always used it fresh for internal purposes. Fermented noni was used for bleaching kapa, not for medicine."
Indeed it's easy enough to make your own juice. Simply pick the fruit off the tree when it is white, clean it and let it ripen for a few days, then put it in a sterile container such as a glass mayonnaise jar covered with plastic wrap in a cool place or refrigerator. The amber-colored juice will begin to naturally seep from the fruit, producing juice for about a 10-day period. An ounce of the juice on an empty stomach is recommended for headaches or fatigue.
"You can buy the cheap juice, but if it looks black or dark, I wouldn't drink it," says Jewell. "The fresh juice looks like whisky. I drink it warm. I make it for people who don't have the time to make it themselves. As soon as the fruit turns translucent, I put it in a steamer juicer and then seal the juice in a sterile 32-quart jar. An unopened jar will last four years. Once you open it, it should be refrigerated and will last for about three months."
Noni is receiving more attention from the medical and scientific communities. In a report to the 83rd annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in May 1992, the juice of the noni fruit was shown to significantly prolong the life of mice implanted with Lewis lung carcinoma.
Oahu-based oncologist Dr. Brian Issell currently heads a study at the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii in Honolulu, funded by the National Institutes of Health. The study's first phase, which has been ongoing since 2001, monitors patients with advanced stages of cancer who are being given noni in capsule form. Although results are not yet conclusive, patients say they experience less pain and more energy after taking noni.
The team, including Professor Carolyn Gotay, is attempting to determine the right dose to administer. The next phase of research will compare that dose to a placebo.
"We're trying to see if it helps them feel better, not so much looking for a cure," said Gotay. "We don't have official conclusions that we can point to because we're still collecting data, but it looks as though certain doses of noni provide some quality-of-life effects for the patients. It's well tolerated and the people like being part of the study.
"Our center is oriented around taking advantage of research opportunities that are particularly appropriate here in Hawaii," she adds. "We see Hawaii as a natural treasure chest of resources and noni is part of that."
RE: Noni Juice - Stizz - 12-11-2006
yummy.... rancid cheese margaritas.
RE: Noni Juice - Kelena - 12-11-2006
Wow! I'm saving that article to my computer. Everything you wanted to know about Noni and more. I thought it might taste like, uh, I don't know, rasperries! Not so! I might throw some into my next lililoi cocktail anyway!! Thanks Wyatt, Carey, CocoaMoe.
RE: Noni Juice - Momi - 12-30-2006
Aloha Kakou,
Noni is a very good medicine however, I would like to warn against taking this all the time. If you need it, take it, if not don't. Alot of people take it internally, all the time and I don't advise people to do this but if you have an ailment which it is helpful for, use it. Now externally, noni is awesome. I'm doing a plant talk at Volcano Educational Center on January 20. Please feel free to visit my website to learn more about this free medicinal plant talk and other Hawaiian herbs. Momi Subiono http://konamomishells.tripod.com/id13.html
Edited by - momi on 01/05/2007 21:38:22
RE: Noni Juice - Carolann R - 01-10-2007
Anybody know if it help sciatica? I think I'm actually having that kind of pain. I never felt anything like it. My right side from my rear down the back of my leg and into my foot. Don't know what causes this, but it's a buggar.
Carrie
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RE: Noni Juice - Jeffhale - 01-11-2007
I seriously doubt that Carolann. And with sciatica, usually, you will feel numbness down your leg to your foot too.
You should try, at your own risk of course, toe touch-ers, lightly, gently, stretching your leg and back muscles. If you are lucky, you are just tightened up.
And, because this can be a difficult or overlooked cause, look up everything you can about the piriformis muscle . it can tighten up and squeeze the sciatic nerves, Located it and massage it. It’s very deep, difficult to massage but if it’s it you’ll be glade you found it because, if so, it should relive some troubles in short time.
My wife was down, in bed, with it for a month and after two months research I learned about this. I gave her, and I am not a Masseuse, one deep, slightly painfull, massage across and threw out the piriformis muscle and she was out of bed within hours and on her feet again.
Good luck..
Edited by - Jeffhale on 01/11/2007 20:03:03
RE: Noni Juice - oink - 01-11-2007
I get it on a fairly regular basis as my back is pretty much crap, and has been since highschool. The only solution I have found is several trips to a competent Chiropractor. Many are not competent. A good M.D.Osteopath will work if you can find one that still does adjustments.
S. FL Islander to be