Juicy Jamuns full of taste and health

By Sumati Bhardwaj | Category: Food | 24-07-2020

As soon as the first shower of rain falls, dark, healthy, and tasty juicy jamuns flood the market. Since the rainy season also brings with it many health-related diseases, perhaps nature has very thoughtfully made jamun the fruit of this season because its fruit, seed, leaves, and even the tree's bark have such beneficial medicinal properties that it works as a panacea for everything from minor to major ailments.

This slightly sour and sweet fruit contains all the necessary nutrients and minerals that the body needs to stay healthy. Since every fruit has its season, this fruit is also seasonal and is available only for two to three months. However, even after the fruit's season is over, its seeds, leaves, and bark can be used to get as much benefit as from the fruit itself. To make use of this extremely beneficial fruit for sugar control, various juices, sherbets, and vinegars are also available in the market.

So let's know in detail about the benefits of the jamun fruit along with its seed, leaves, and bark, how to use them, and also how to make its juice and vinegar at home.

Benefits of Jamun Fruit

  1. Jamun fruit contains useful vitamins like B, C, calcium, and iron, besides carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin, which not only cures anemia but also increases the body's immunity.
  2. Eating 100 grams of jamun fruit daily provides ample calories and energy, making it a cheap and accessible source of energy and nutrition.
  3. Being rich in anti-oxidants, it detoxifies the body by freeing it from harmful free radicals.
  4. The high potassium content in the pulp of jamun helps in keeping the heart arteries healthy and also controls the cholesterol level.
  5. It helps in preventing and controlling high blood pressure.
  6. In diabetic patients, it reduces the amount of sugar production and increases the amount of insulin production.
  7. Jamun fruit rapidly increases the amount of melanin production in the skin, which helps in reducing white spots.

Usage

To get the full benefit of jamun fruit, it should be consumed with rock salt or black salt mixed with roasted cumin. Consuming more than 100 grams daily can be harmful. It should not be consumed on an empty stomach, nor should water or milk be consumed after eating jamun.

Benefits of Jamun Seed

  1. Since jamun fruit is very useful for diabetic patients, when the fruit is not available, its seed can be used to get as much benefit as the fruit. Consuming one spoon of jamun seed powder mixed with an equal amount of dried bael leaves and sweet neem leaves daily is very beneficial for diabetic patients.
  2. Jamun seed contains a glucose called jamboline, which prevents starch from converting into sugar. Therefore, regular consumption of one spoon of seed powder not only keeps blood sugar under control but also cures the problem of dry throat and frequent urination in diabetes.
  3. The seed powder is very beneficial for stomach-related problems like gas, bloating, indigestion, and acidity. Consume one spoon of powder mixed with a pinch of black salt with lukewarm water.
  4. The seed powder is also helpful in the treatment of inflammation, wounds, and ulcers in the stomach. For this, use one spoon of powder regularly.
  5. It is beneficial in jaundice and also helps in improving liver function.
  6. If there is a sore throat or hoarseness of voice, licking a mixture of one spoon of honey and seed powder provides relief.
  7. In new research, scientists believe that drinking a decoction of the seed powder not only protects against diseases like cancer but also protects against the harmful radiation caused by chemotherapy.
  8. Rubbing the dried seed with water and applying it on pimples is beneficial.
  9. To remove spots and blemishes from the face, mix half a spoon of barley or gram flour in one spoon of seed powder with lemon or amla juice and apply. The spots will lighten, and the skin complexion will also improve.

Usage

After using the jamun, wash the seeds well and dry them in the sun. Make a powder only after the seeds are completely dry and store it in a glass bottle. The powder can be consumed as a powder or as a decoction by boiling it with water.

Benefits of Jamun Leaves

  1. For boils, pimples, general wounds, or if a diabetic patient's wound is not healing, make a poultice by grinding fresh jamun leaves and tie it regularly. The wound will start to dry.
  2. If there is a problem of bleeding or bad breath from the mouth, chew 3-4 fresh and soft jamun leaves in the mouth for a while, swirling them around, or boil the leaves in water and gargle. You will get relief.
  3. If there is swelling in the gums, or if the gums have become weak and loose, mix jamun leaf powder, rock salt, and a little turmeric and use it as a tooth powder.
  4. To sober up from intoxication or to neutralize the poison of a venomous creature's bite, one should drink the juice of fresh jamun leaves.
  5. Besides this, taking dried and powdered jamun leaves mixed with an equal amount of seed powder increases the body's immunity and is very helpful in keeping the body healthy and disease-free.

Usage

Although the jamun fruit is available only for a short time, jamun leaves are available throughout the year. Therefore, fresh leaves should be used as much as possible, but benefits can also be obtained from the powder of dried leaves.

Benefits of Jamun Tree Bark

  1. The bark of the jamun tree is rich in astringent properties. Therefore, gargling with water in which the bark has been boiled provides relief from toothache and dental diseases, as well as problems related to the mouth and throat.
  2. Due to its antibacterial and anti-infective properties, it is beneficial in common fevers as well as in malaria. To reduce fever, a decoction should be made by boiling its bark in water.
  3. Boil its bark in water, grind it, and apply a thick paste on the face. This not only cures the problem of pimples but also gets rid of open pores and spots on the skin.
  4. In the treatment of arthritis, the use of bark provides relief from pain. Boil the bark well in water to make a decoction and drink it, and apply a paste of the strained pulp on the painful area for quick relief.

Usage

Dry small pieces of jamun tree bark and keep them. To use, crush the pieces or make a powder.

Method of making Jamun juice and vinegar

How to make juice and sherbet

To make juice from fresh jamun fruits, mash the jamun by hand to separate the seed, and grind the pulp in a mixer with a few ice cubes, a little black salt, and roasted cumin. To make jamun sherbet, boil the pulp of deseeded jamun with a little water. When the water starts to dry up, turn off the heat, and when the pulp cools down, grind it in a mixer. Add an equal amount of sugar and cook again until it thickens. When it cools down, store it in a bottle. If you want to make this sherbet for a year, add sodium benzoate and citric acid.

How to make vinegar

Mash semi-ripe jamun fruits by hand to separate the pulp from the seed, and mix a little salt in the pulp and keep it in a glass container for an hour. After an hour, squeeze the pulp well with your hands to extract the juice. If you don't want to extract the juice by hand, you can put the pulp in a soft, clean cloth and extract the juice. Store this juice in a glass bottle or a ceramic container. The vinegar will be ready in 20 to 25 days.