Pineapple

Ananas comosus

MEDICINAL BENEFITS

Leaves

• Leaves are anthelmintic and purgative, the encouraging onset of menstruation and easing 

• The leaves are used to treat fractures 

• Leave have paint relieving and blood sugar lowering levels that can be used as an affordable treatment for diabetics 

• Helps to reduce swelling of sore throat, gout, or arthritis

Fruit

• Aids in digestion

• Sour, unripe fruit improves digestion, increases appetite, and relieves dyspepsia

• Used as a uterine tonic, treatment to eat sore throats settles gastric acid

• Fiber from the fruit useful laxative for constipation

• Juice for burns, itches, and boils

• Ground-up pineapple fruit or root can be applied topically as a poultice to clean infected tissues and stimulate wound healing

• Pineapple decoction also has been used for diarrhoea

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

• Plants can be groundcover in mass planting

• Firebreak

OTHER USES

• Eaten raw or cooked 

• Can make juice, candies

• Terminal buds can be cooked, and flowering stem, and young shoots

• Fiber obtained from the leaves that is spun acts as a substitute for silk