The star fruit provides small amounts of B vitamins such as vitamin B5 or pantothenic acid, and derivatives can help lower cholesterol and speed recovery from injuries. It also contains folic acid or vitamin B9, essential for preventing birth defects, and reduces the risk of strokes and heart attacks.
The carambola fruit is rich in ascorbic acid, which is important for the physical state of your body because it helps to keep bones, teeth, mucous membranes, skin and immune system improves.one cup of sliced carambola has 37.2 mg of vitamin C.
- Fevers:
The dried fruit or juice is used to reduce fevers.
- Hangovers:
A conserve of the fruit is said to allay biliousness and diarrhea and to relieve a "hangover" from excessive indulgence in alcohol.
- Asthma and colic:
Powdered seeds, 10 gms to a cup of warm water, drunk 4 times daily.
- Antimicrobial:
Fruit extracts demonstrated antimicrobial activity against Bacillus cereus, E. coli, Salmonella typhi and Staphylococcus aureus.
- Cholesterol:
The carambola is rich in soluble fiber, which can be helpful in reducing cholesterol levels and maintain healthy intestine.
- Coagulant:
the ripe fruit is administered to halt hemorrhages and to relieve bleeding hemorrhoids.
- Eczema, Ringworm:
The carambola leaves to fresh low as chickenpox and eczema, ringworm treatment.
