Cherry (Muntinga Calabura)

These plants are already quite familiar in the ears of people, but some are not yet known. These plants are usually grown in the village or township. and are rarely found in urban areas.
small round fruit is ripe the fruit is red and if the young green fruit. It was sweet, the interior contains small seeds such as sand. That's what makes this much-loved fruit.
The name of this fruit in other countries is Capulin blanco, cacaniqua, nigua, niguito (Spanish); Jamaican cherry, Panama berry, cherry Singapore (English) and a name that is not appropriate, Japanse Kers (Netherlands).

Cherry fruit in Sri Lanka are often preserved and made jam. The fruit is very popular in Mexico and is commonly sold in traditional markets.
Cherry fruit juices are very beneficial and its contents are much better when compared with isotonic drinks that many in the market.
Cherry fruit every 100 grams contains: Water (77.8 grams), protein (0.384 grams), fat (1.56 gram), carbohydrate (17.9 grams), fiber (4.6 grams), ash (1.14 grams), calcium (124.6 mg), phosphorus (84mg),
Iron (1.18 mg), carotene (0.019 g), tianin (0.065 g), ribofalin (0.037 g), niacin (0.554 g) and vitamin C (80.5 mg). The resulting energy value is 380KJ/100 grams.
Not only the fruit, cherry leaves also have long been used as traditional medicine which is used as a headache remedy and anti-inflammation by the people of Peru.

Based on research already done, cherry plants have properties as follows:

1. Uric acid Healer
In Indonesia cherry fruit traditionally used to treat gout cherry bauh premises consuming sebayak 9 items 3 times a day it is proven to reduce pain
posed of uric acid diseases.

2.Antiseptik
The content of cherry leaf decoction berkasiat to kill harmful microbe and can be used as an anti-septic.
Based on research conducted by neighboring Malaysia, cherry leaf decoction can be used to kill bacteria C. Diptheriea, S. Aureus, P vulgaris, S and K Epidemidis Rizhophil on experiments conducted in vitro.

3. Antitumor
The content of flavonoids found in cherry leaves are also believed to inhibit the growth of cancer cells (mouse hapatoma) by laboratories that performed the scientists from Peru.

4. Antiflamasi
Cherry decoction of the leaves also have anti-inflammatory kasiat (antiflamasi) and also lower the heat, this study used mice as experimental.

Source : http://asrulirfantosblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/manfaat-buah-gersenkersen.html
http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kersen