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Nutrition and Health Benefits

Flowers, fruits and seeds have all the medical nature. Panampalai and roots have medicinal qualities. Used to prevent swelling of the spleen obtained from burned ash spathes.

Pathanir

Tamil Nadu and Kerala pathanir considered a primary food. Daily for 45 days in a vase rate consistently took pathanir increases the body weight. Pathanir drinking helps to cure people who are breath troubled. Patanir upgrades the digestion and cools the body while drink in the evening than in the morning. Lime will be higher in evening Patanir. So, people afraid of drinking pathanir due to high lime. But if the young nungu mixed with pathanir absorb calcium and give pleasant smell. It heals the intestines and stomach ulcers. Regular pathanir drinking cleanses intestine and cures constipation.

It, improves the health of people with leprosy. It appears that vitamin A deficiency beriberi, scurvy, etc. can be treated by means pathanir sipping. The red blood cells of people with anemia (hemoglobin) can be used to increase the number by pathanir drinking. In addition to promoting the growth of children and cure various childhood diseases. The divergent characteristics of male and female palms pathanir received. In pathanir derived from male palms contains potassium, ascorbic acid, calcium, etc., rather than the size of the woman palm.

Property Male palm Female palm
Pure juice (percent) 93.28 90.80
Soluble solids (percent) 13.72 14.03
Sucrose (percent) 12.45 12.20
Reducing sugar (per cent) 0.8 0.16
Pectin (percent) 0.04 0.04
Mineral salt (percent) 0.55 0.33

Nungu

Nungu contains sweet taste. Slender, easily digestable. Young nungu mixed with curd used as a thyirpaccadi and served at wedding functions. Restaurants in Virudhunagar Cheffs well known for Nungu pacchadi. During summer season, applying nungu water on the body cures the rashes. Nungu water pouring on the eyes of the cornea will reduce heat. The skin is thin at the top of nungu will reduce all the heat illnesses. The skin of the nungu grind and given to small children in villages solve a stomach huff.

Palmyrah Fruit (Panampalam)

Ripe fruits are used to treat leprosy well.

Comparison of the nutritional panampalam

Fruit Moisture(%) Fiber
(G / 100 g)
Calcium
(G / 100 g)
Iron
(Mg / 100 g)
Vitamin C
(Mg / 100 g)
Mango 86.1 0.9 0.01 0.3 13
Papaya 89.6 0.8 0.01 0.4 46
Panampalam 77.2 13.5 0.09 - 27

Palm sugar

Palm sugar dissolved in water and extracted liquid filter provided for typhoid patients may have their body strength. Palm sugar dissolved in water remedy for constipation to children. Children eating palm sugar solution regain their weight.

Panamkarkandu

The panamkarkandu mix with milk will increase the agility. This will alleviate sore throat with healing and reduce the body heat. Measles and smallpox aggressors were cured and cooling the body. If the use of pepper powder with panamkarkandu cures dry cough and throat irritation. Urine defected pregnant mother use the panamkarkandu dissolved in hot water will correct deficiencies. Panamkarkandu is dissolved in cold water will reduce the eye irritation and reddish eye. There are many musicians use panamkarkandu to enrich their voice.

Root

The roots are having fragrant which will cure people infected with leprosy. Roots will provide cooling. The roots are used to make up stomach discomfort. The pink color is obtained from the roots boiled in a solution can cure sexually transmitted diseases. Palm root powder mixed with coconut milk and a fish such as the item is received cake on daily basis will improve the growing body strength and vigor.

Leaves

The evergreen leaves are used as cattle feed in times of drought. Ramanathapuram district People feed the leaves to cows to get milk. The dairy cows liked to eat the leaves. While the cows ate well that secretes milk in the areas of Tirupullani, Kilakarai, tevippattanam villages. From the leaves of palm, spongiform lesions in brown having the ability to block the bleeding.

Nutrient composition of Palmyrah products - A Comparison

Nutrients Patanir
(100 cm3)
Nungu
(100 g)
Panampalam
(100 g)
Panankilanku
(100 g)
Panancimpu
(100 g)
Jaggery
(100 g)
PH 6.7-6.9 - - - - -
Humidity (g) 86.60 92.50 77.84 15.48 80.34 -
The total soluble solids (%) 12.50 - - - - -
Nitrogen (g) 0.056 - - - - -
Protein (g) 0.35 0.60 0.63 2.90 0.24 0.77
Fat - 0.10 0.17 0.56 0.37 0.18
Of sugar (g) 10.93 6.40 20.12 67.06 0.85 -
Fiber (g) - 0.20 0.60 11.60 - 0.50
Mineral salt (g) 0.54 - - - - 0.50
Energy (Kcal) 28.90 85.73 2684.88 - - 39.80
Calcium (Mg) 35.40 12.00 8.98 38.00 - 8.00
Potassium (g) - 0.20  0.64 2.40 - -
P (g) 0.14 0.21 0.33 - - 6.40
Iron (g) 0.40 0.30 - - - 0.30

Nut

The white tuber like chopped coconut helps to germinate. This is a kind of white oil produced from the kernels used to treat bone breakdown. In areas of Anrda Pradesh Catthiyavada (near to) this oil used to bandage for fracture by local doctor, to build the broken bone again.

Source:Dr.V.Ponnuswami, PhD, PDF (Taiwan), Former Dean & Professor (Horticulture), Horticultural College & Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore

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Last Update January 2016

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