30 Days of Healing Food – Day 7
30 Days of Healing Food Day 7
Caigua Fruit or Slipper Gourd… Good Food for Great Health
By Dr. Paul Haider
Caigua Fruit comes from Peru and Central America where it has been used as a veggie similar to cucumber for hundreds of years… and has many health benefits that are important for modern day life.
Caigua Fruit contains new flavonoids and antioxidants that have not been seen before. It fact Caigua contains lots of antioxidants that are helpful in prevent cardiovascular disease, strokes, and cancer.
Caigua Fruit is a great anti-inflammatory agent, studies show that Caigua was almost one and a half times more effective than ibuprofin. And Caigua is well known in Peru for healing away varicose veins and promoting liver, stomach, and kidney health.
This wonderful plant contains lots of plant sterols that lowers cholesterol, B and C vitamins for vitality and immunity, iron for building blood, peptin which protects the body from metabolic syndrome, phosphorus which is important for bone, brain, and cellular repair… and resins that help lower cholesterol, galacturonic acid which is a polyphenol similar to that found in green tea, dihydroxitriptamine, pierine, and lipoproteins that also lower cholesterol and many other useful compounds.
Lowers Blood Pressure – Caigua can lower blood pressure and at the same time help to lower blood sugar levels too. And the leaves of the plant lower blood sugar too… and are usually added to the diet for that purpose.
Lowers Cholesterol – Studies show that this cucumber/pepper looking fruit can lower LDL or bad cholesterol by up to 75%, and increase HDL or good cholesterol by over 20%. In Peru Caigua has a reputation of being one of the most powerful fat absorbing veggies around, and a good detoxing agent.
