Mangoes are popular in a wide variety of folk medicine. Every part of mango plants is beneficial and has been utilized in folk medicine.
In many countries in the tropics, mango bark and leaves are used as teas for diarrhea and related diseases. Many folk medicines have been prepared from mango extracts and resin used in treating diarrhea chronic dysentery, fever, chest problems, insomnia, diabetes, chronic urethritis resulting from gonorrhea and other ills.
Mango is conspicuous for its high content of tannins, the astringent and anti-inflammatory effects of which make it plausible that it gives some relief for these conditions.
The nut shell and juice are used in folk remedies for warts in Brazil.
Leaves are chewed to improve the gums, and smoke inhaled for hiccups and throat afflictions in India. Indian people also make mango paste and cooked together with mint, ground cumin seeds, salt, pepper and sugar. The paste then diluted with water and drunk to prevent sunstroke.
Chinese medicine has used the smoke from smoldering leaves also to treat hiccups and throat ailments and a poultice to treat asthma, cough and skin problems.
They also used the leaf tea to treat asthma, bronchitis, coughs, diabetes, diarrhea, hypertension, insomnia and whooping cough.
Folk medicine of mango
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History of Mango in India and Southeast Asia
History of Mango in India and Southeast Asia
Domestication of mango probably occurred at different times and in different –places on the Indian subcontinent and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Mango cultivated in India can be dated to 4000 BC. Today the mango tree and it fruit remain important Indian religious and cultural symbols.
It has been suggested that the Portuguese, who established trading outposts along the west coast of India in the 15th century, introduced vegetative propagation methods in India and these were used for the first time to clone superior monoembryonic trees. The most important mango cultivars of India e.g., ‘Alphonso,’ ‘Dashehari,’ and ‘Langra,’ are selections that were made at the time of Akbar the Great and have therefore been propagated vegetative for several hundred years.
It is uncertain when cultivation of polyembryonic mangoes originated in Southeast Asia. According to a linguist analysis of the various common names for mango in Southeast Asia, they concluded that polyembryonic mango was probably domesticated independently by several indigenous cultures in that region. The traditional cultivars of South Asia, e.g., ‘Arumanis’ in Indonesia and ‘Carabao’ in the Philippines, continue to be propagated as nucellar seedlings in the region.
The spread of mango from South and Southeast Asia to tropical and subtropical areas of the world came as a result of the Portuguese and Spanish voyages of exploration from the end of the 15th century onward. Generally speaking, the Southeast Asia polyembryonic types were carried across the Pacific Ocean along the Spanish trade routes to Peru, Central America and Mexico. The most important mango cultivar of Mexico today is the polyembryonic ‘Manila.’ The Portuguese carried Indian mango westward to their outposts in Africa, and later to Brazil.
History of Mango in India and Southeast Asia
Domestication of mango probably occurred at different times and in different –places on the Indian subcontinent and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Mango cultivated in India can be dated to 4000 BC. Today the mango tree and it fruit remain important Indian religious and cultural symbols.
It has been suggested that the Portuguese, who established trading outposts along the west coast of India in the 15th century, introduced vegetative propagation methods in India and these were used for the first time to clone superior monoembryonic trees. The most important mango cultivars of India e.g., ‘Alphonso,’ ‘Dashehari,’ and ‘Langra,’ are selections that were made at the time of Akbar the Great and have therefore been propagated vegetative for several hundred years.
It is uncertain when cultivation of polyembryonic mangoes originated in Southeast Asia. According to a linguist analysis of the various common names for mango in Southeast Asia, they concluded that polyembryonic mango was probably domesticated independently by several indigenous cultures in that region. The traditional cultivars of South Asia, e.g., ‘Arumanis’ in Indonesia and ‘Carabao’ in the Philippines, continue to be propagated as nucellar seedlings in the region.
The spread of mango from South and Southeast Asia to tropical and subtropical areas of the world came as a result of the Portuguese and Spanish voyages of exploration from the end of the 15th century onward. Generally speaking, the Southeast Asia polyembryonic types were carried across the Pacific Ocean along the Spanish trade routes to Peru, Central America and Mexico. The most important mango cultivar of Mexico today is the polyembryonic ‘Manila.’ The Portuguese carried Indian mango westward to their outposts in Africa, and later to Brazil.
History of Mango in India and Southeast Asia
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