What are the bad and good effects of bilimbi or ginger lily?

please specify the thing that make it bad or good.....











orrrrr.... what your relatives know coz we also need folkloric ones...





thank you.

What are the bad and good effects of bilimbi or ginger lily?
Bilimbi and ginger lily are different plants:





Bilimbi, Averrhoa bilimbi, Oxalidaceae, contains proteine, minerals, vitamines and - depending on variety - more or less oxalic acid ( see source for more details ).





The sorts with low amount of oxalic acid are used as vegetable in relishs, curries, for jam or juice.





The medical use varies in the different countries: external use against swellings of mumps and rheumatism, and on skin eruptions, bites of poisonous animals, veneral disease, internal use leaves as a remedy for coughs, tonic after childbed, infusion of flowers against coughs and thrush.


A sirup prepared from the fruit is taken as a cure for fever and inflammation and to stop rectal bleeding and alleviate internal hemorrhoids.


In this publication:


http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob...


hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic activities are reported.





In Malaysia, very acid bilimbi is used to clean the kris blade and as mordant in silk-dyeworks ( orange )


Its juice cotains enough oxalic acid to be useful for bleaching stains from the hands and rust from white cloth, and also tarnish from brass.





For "ginger lily" there are to find two different plants


(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_lily...


Alpinia species ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpinia )


and Hedychium species


( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedychium ), both Zingiberaceae.


They are cultivated as ornamental flowers and the essential oil of Alpinia galanga is used in cosmetics and massage oils


The rhizome is used to create a tincture that is applied topically to treat fungal skin infections.


The rhizome is taken orally to enhance digestion, treat intestinal infection, Type II Diabetes, bronchitis, rheumatism, and as an aphrodesiac.
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