Sea Mango

Sea mango is naturally distributed from the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean eastward to French Polynesia. The plant is used locally as a herbal medicine, being mainly harvested from the wild. A white latex exudes from all plant parts. The medicinal products are sometimes sold in local markets. A very ornamental tree, with beautiful aromatic flowers and interesting fruits that are used in flower displays, it is sometimes grown in gardens.

Tanghin (French), Hai mang guo (Chinese), Baraibai (Tagalog-Philippines), Teenpet lek (Thailand), Hải guả tủ huờng (Vietnamese), Kalwa salat (Myanmar), Bintaru (Malaysia), and Bintaro (Indonesia).

A plant of the lowland tropics. Plants should preferably be grown in full light in a fertile, moist but well-drained loam with additional leaf mould. Often growing along the beach in the wild, this species should be resistant to maritime winds.

• Roots - taproot, brown in colour.
• Stems - the bole can be up to 70 cm in diameter.
• Leaves - shiny lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 13-25 cm long, narrowed and pointed at both ends, furnished with slender nerves, arranged spirally or fan-like.
• Flowers - white, fragrant, about 5 cm across, on terminal inflorescences. Calyx tube is short, with spreading, pale-green lanceolate lobes, about 2 cm long. Corolla tube is slender, greenish-white, enlarged above, about 4 cm long, the five-lobed limb white with a purple center, spreading, about 5 cm in diameter.
• Fruits - a drupe, smooth, ellipsoid or ovoid, 5- 8 cm long, flattened on one side, red when mature, with a fibrous endocarp, and containing one oily seed.
• Seeds - white.

Propagated by seeds or stem cuttings.

Alkaloids, tannins, steroids, flavonoids, glycosides (known as cerebrin), cardiac glycosides, cardenolide monoglycosides, lignans, and triterpenoids.

Medicinal Uses

• The bark is used as a laxative and antipyretic, and in the treatment of dysuria and ringworm.
• The flowers are used to treat haemorrhoids.
• The roots, bark, latex, and leaves are sometimes used as an emetic and a purgative. Some of these have shown antiproliferative activity against human colon cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer and epidermoid carcinoma cell lines, as well as anti-oestrogenic activity.

Traditional Uses

• The seeds are used to treat cardiac disorders.
• Red fresh fruit is rubbed on legs for rheumatism.
• Latex is rubifacient on the skin.
• A decoction of the inner bark is drunk with cold water as an abortifacient.
• Fruit kernel is also used as abortifacient. Oil rubbed on skin to cure itches.
• In Java, along with heating oils, rubbed on skin as rubifacient to cure colds.
• Externally, the seeds are used to treat scabies and itch, and as hair tonic.

• Panen daun lalu sortasi bahan (memilih bahan-bahan yang sehat).
• Pencucian dengan air bersih lalu kering anginkan/jemur hingga kering.
• Kemas dalam plastik (vakum), beri label serta cantumkan tanggal pengolahan.
• Simpan dalam ruangan (suhu 8-15 °C).