Mangosteen Systemic Effects

Mangosteen is listed with 138 separate benefits. The following are the major benefits:

• Anti-fatigue
• Anti-tumor and cancer prevention
• Anti-aging
• Anti-oxidant
• Anti-lipidemic -- blood pressure lowering
• Anti-inflammatory -- prevents inflammation
• Anti-ulcer -- prevents both stomach, mouth, and bowel ulcers
• Anti-obesity -- helps with weight loss
• Anti-atherosclerotic -- prevents hardening of the arteries
• Anti-viral -- prevents or modulates fungal infections
• Anti-depressant
• Anti-Alzheimers -- helps prevent dementia
• Anti-arthritic -- prevention of arthritis
• Anti-osteoporosis -- helps prevent the loss of bone mass
• Anti-periodontic -- reduces/prevents inflammation and infection of gums
• Anti-seborrhic -- prevents seborrhea (skin disease that causes dandruff)
• Anti-calcultic -- prevents kidney stones
• Anti-pyretic -- fever lowering
• Anti-Parkinson
• Anti-diarrhea
• Anti-neuralgic -- reduces nerve pain (i.e. diabetic neuropathy of the feet, hands)
• Anti-vertigo -- prevents dizziness
• Anti-glaucomic -- prevents glaucoma
• Anti-cataract -- prevents cataracts
• Hypotensive -- blood pressure lowering
• Immunostimulant -- multiple categories cited
• Cardioprotective -- protects the heart
• Analgesic -- prevents pain
• Prevents seizure

Source: Dr. James Duke, He worked for the USDA and University of Maryland. Prolific writer and created a phytochemical and ethnobotanical database.

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