Duku fruit

in indonesia •  7 years ago 

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Duku fruit is a type of fruit from members of the tribe Meliaceae. Plants originating from Southeast Asia west of this have similarities with fruit langsat, kokosan, pisitan, celoring and others
Duku is mainly grown for the fruit, which is usually eaten fresh. There are also preserves in syrup and bottled. [2] The wood is hard, dense, heavy and durable, so it is often used as a tool and home construction material in the village, especially the wood of pisitan. [7]
Some parts of the plant are used as traditional medicine ingredients. Duku seeds are bitter taste, pounded and mixed with water for worm medicine and fever medicine. The bark is used as a malarial dandruff medicine; while the bark flour is used as a poultice to treat scorpion bites. The skin of the fruit is also used as a medicine for diarrhea; and dried fruit peel, in the Philippines commonly burned as a mosquito repellent. [2] [7] The leather of primal fruit, dried and processed to be mixed in a stand or incense.

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