Vatehuli / Monkey Jack Fruit powder

Artocarpus lacucha, also known as monkey fruit, or Monkey Jack fruit or Vate Huli is a tropical evergreen tree species of the Moraceae family.

Traditional uses and benefits of consuming Monkey fruit:

• Extract of the fruit reduces hair loss and stimulates the propagation of hair, skin diseases, herpes can make it fade away the darkening of the skin.

• It may also treat arthritic swelling, dysentery and clean wounds.

• Fruit pulp act as refresher of liver as well as seeds and milky latex can used as purgative.

• Tree bark consists of 8.5 percent tannin and is used to treat skin lesion.

• Powder formed bark is applied to cure any wound and also used to draw out purulent matter from any abscess.

• Seed and bark of the plant are useful for stomach and liver disease.

• Ripe fruit is sour sweet, tonic to liver.

• Seed are good purgative for children.

• Juice and seeds from this plant are used as purgative and the bark is used as astringent.

• Root is used as refresher and the leave are used in treating dropsy.

• Powered form heartwood extract has been using as an effective and economical skin-whitening agent.

• lakoocha plant is used in traditional Thai medicine for anti-inflammatory therapy and as well as an anti-skin aging agent.

• lakoocha extract was effective for the treatment of taeniasis.

• lakoocha is widely used as medicinal plant for the treatment of some specific diseases in India.

• Fruit can be used as food supplement to combat malnutrition and reduces the risk of several diseases.

• Sap and juice of the bark is applied externally to boils, pimples, cuts and wounds.

• Macerated bark is used as a poultice for treating skin ailments. The bark is used to treat headache.