Averhoa carambola

Averhoa carambola

Familia :
Oxalidaceae

Planted as fruit trees, sometimes grows wild and is found from the lowlands to 500 m above sea level. Trees that comes from tropical America where it wants to grow is not shaded and quite humid.
Taste the fruit sour, used as a syrup refresher, flavoring food, clean the stain on the cloth, polish goods made of brass, clean hands are dirty or as ingredients of traditional medicine. Propagation by seed and grafting.


Chemical Content :
Trunk: Saponin, tannin, glucoside, calcium oxalate, sulfur, formic acid, peroxidase. Leaves: Tanin, sulfur, formic acid, peroxidase, calcium oxalate, potassium citrate.

Pharmacological effect : It was sour, cool. Eliminating pain (analgesic), multiply the expenses of bile, anti-inflammatory, laxative urine, astringent.

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