Now, what about claims that the Mangosteen fruit can provide so many benefits all by itself? Well, that doesn’t seem so unusual either when you consider that today one single drug (aspirin) is considered virtually an all-purpose medicine with new benefits being discovered all the time. Whether Mangosteen can indeed do all its supporters claim it can, it certainly seems to do something. Dr. Frederic Templeman, MD talks about the research. “Rarely has a fruit that has been heretofore been so unknown been so studied, examined, researched, and scrutinized by science.” The secret, of the fruit, according to Dr. Templeman, seems to be in producing antioxidants that fight free radicals which are a threat to our immune systems. “One class of powerful antioxidants is called, ‘Xanthones’ which have been the subject of recent intense study.” This substance is found in great abundance in the pericarp, or rind, of the Mangosteen fruit. “This is the mother lode of beneficial Xanthones.”
The healing evidence is bolstered by a study by Dr. James Duke, a leading ethno botanist at the University of Maryland. According to the good doctor, the Mangosteen fruit can cause cancerous tumors to either shrink or disappear, slow down the aging process, lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, act as an antibiotic, prevent and/or treat arthritis, lessen depression, prevent or reverse arteriosclerosis, and generally act as an anti-inflammatory agent. Quite a menu to be sure. And, we are assured, there is much more to come.