Cherimoya

Cherimoya including small fruit trees growing on rocky ground, dried, and exposed to direct sunlight. This tropical fruit has many names, depending on its origin. People call it serikaya Malaysia (which means full of grace). In Guatemala, the name cherimoya. In addition, Sharifa (India), noi na (Thailand), mang cau te (Cambodia), fan li chi (China), aajaa thee (Myanmar), Sakya (Taiwan), sweetsop (Caribbean), or sugar apple (United States) . Annona squamosa own Latin name, but often confused with Annona reticulata (custard apple, soursop alias). Srikaya was still allied with soursop. Plants that came from the West Indies this will bear fruit after 3-5 years old. Cherimoya often planted in the yard, cultivated, or growing wild, and can be found up to a height of 800 m dpi.

Shrub or small tree has a height 2-5 m, the thin bark grayish, toxic sap skin. Stemmed leaves, stiff, alternate location. Leaf blade oblong to elliptic form of narrow, pointed tip and pangkai, flat edge, 6-17 cm long, 2.5 to 7.5 cm wide, green leaf surface, the bottom of bluish green, slightly hairy or bald. Flower petals 2-4 (dealing), exit and end of the shaft or the armpit leaves, yellow green color. The fruit is fruit apparent, form a ball or cone, bumpy surface, the color green and white berserbuk, 5-10 cm cross section, if the cook, the men will separate themselves from one another. Bluish green color. White flesh, sweet taste. Seeds shiny black cook.

Nature and Benefits
The roots are bitter, cold nature. Efficacious anti-inflammatory, anti-depressants. The leaves are bitter, chocolate, its a little cold. Efficacious astringent, anti-inflammatory, laxative intestinal worms, as well as accelerate the ripening boils and abscesses.

Nutritious seeds stimulate digestive enzymes, abortivum, anthelmintic, and insect killers. Nutritious bark astringent and tonic. Young fruit and seeds are also efficacious antiparasitic.

Chemical Ingredients
The root and bark contain flavonoids, borneol, kamphor, terpenes, and alkaloids anonain. In addition, the root also contains saponins, tannins, and polyphenols. Seeds contain oil, resin, and toxic materials that are irritants. The fruit contains amino acids, fruit sugar, and mucilago. Young fruit contains tannins.

These herbs generally contain alkaloids asporfin type (anonain) and bisbenziltetrahidroisokinolin (reticuline). In the organs of plants found cyanogen compounds. Leaves, bark and roots contain WN. Ripe fruit pulp that has been found sitrulin, aminobutyric acid, ornithine, arginine. (At Annona muricata: proline, aminobutyric acid). On the other Annona species is on Annona glabra, Annona muricata discovered class of polyphenolic compounds (quercetin, kafeat acid, leukoantosianidin, kumarat acid).

Seeds containing compound and a compound derived polyketide bistetrahidrofuran; asetogenin (skuamostatin C, D, anonain, anonasin A, anonin 1, IV, VI, VIII, IX, XVI, skuarnostatin A, bulatasin, bulatasinon, skuamon, ncoanonin B, neo desasetilurarisin, A neo retikulasin, skuamosten A, asmisin, skuamosin, sanonasin, anonastatin, neoanonin) Penernuan results of other studies that skuamosisnin A, skuamosin B, C, D, E, F, G, H, 1, J, K, L, M, N; skuamostatin B, fatty acids, amino acids and proteins.

Constituent fatty acid composition of seed oil fatty cherimoya composed of methyl palmitate, methyl stearate, methyl linoleic.

The leaves contain alkaloids isokinolin tetrahydrofuran, p-hidroksibenzil-6 ,7-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahidroisokinolin (demetilkoklaurin = higenamin).

Flowers contain asarn kaur-1 6-ene-1 9-oat informed as active kornponen srikaya interest.