THE GOODNESS OF BELIMBI

The Belimbi plant (pokok belimbing buluh) in the college Herb Garden is bearing a lot of fruits at the present moment.  What do we do with the fruits?  Some of the lecturers and staff cook sambal belacan or other appetising dishes.  When I was younger, I would eat them with assam boi or sour khannah.

Do you know that the fruit and leaves of the plant has a number of health benefits?  

Here they are:

• The juice is effective as eye drops (regarded as a magic curative).
• Decoction of leaves or the juice of the leaves, are often consumed as a cure for venereal disease.
• A leaf decoction is taken to relieve rectal inflammation.
• The fruit is given to children as a protection against coughs.
• A flower infusion is believed be effective against coughs and thrush.
• A leaf infusion is a remedy for coughs and is taken after childbirth as a tonic.
• The leaves are applied as poultice on itches, swellings of mumps and rheumatism, and on skin problems.
• The fruit and leaves are applied on bites of poisonous insect.
• Syrup made from Bilimbi fruit is taken as a cure for fever and inflammation and to stop rectal bleeding and alleviate internal hemorrhoids.

Source: http://www.healthandbeautypages.com/health-benefits-of-kamias/