what are the advantages of beans-fruit to healthy ?

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 03 Oct 2002 15:56 PDT

roby19...

This would seem to be a duplicate of your question here:
https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=72037
so you may want to cancel one of these questions.

And, though you've posted a higher price for this one,
it will still be helpful to answer eiffel-ga's question:
"Do you mean to ask: 'What is the contribution of bean-fruit
 to good health?'"

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Request for Question Clarification by livioflores-ga on 03 Oct 2002 16:01 PDT

Do you want information about the fruits of the leguminous plants (the
legumes or pods), the seed of these plants (called beans) or may be
both?
Another option is benefits of beans (in the meaning given above) and
fruits like orange,apple,etc.

Please clarify your question in order to give you the answer that are
you looking for.

livioflores-ga

Jengkol works against diabetes (hypoglycemia). Also, jengkol is good
for your heart. Too much jengkol is bad. Many other things are good
for your heart and fight diabetes. Jengkol is mainly used for flavor.


Jering equals Jengkol
http://www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/sea/AgroModels/DBases/WD/asps/DisplayDetail.asp?SpecID=313

This site identifies the "bean-fruit" jengkol as having many other
names as well, including Jering.


Jengkol's seeds are good for not getting diabetes 
Jengkol's seeds are good for your heart (blood pressure)
http://www.borneofocus.com/vaic/Natural%20Wealth/jering.htm

"As part of traditional medicinal usage, the Jering seeds are extolled
for preventive diabetes and high blood pressure."


This part for other researchers


I'm going to break standard format here to explain how I answered the
question.
In the other question, the poster clarifies:
"apa khasiat dari ekstrak jengkol ?
what are the funnction of bean-fruit to healthy ?"

Obviously this is being put into an automatic translator and being
given a bad answer. Reading it aloud, "ekstrak" sounds very much like
"extract." Through deduction and the translation, I decided that
jengkol was the name of a bean-fruit of some sort, and that he was
asking, "What is the positive health value of (extract of?) jengkol?"

http://www.pusdiknakes.or.id/info/tekkes.php3 refers to jengkol as
Pthelobium labatum benth, which isn't any scientific name for a plant
but is very close to "Pithecellobium lobatum Benth" which I found on
http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb/6.00/taxa/16586.shtml to be a
crosslisting of Archidendron pauciflorum, and the identity is
confirmed on this page
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/peopleplants/wp/wp3/agroforestry.htm , which
also has a table here:
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/peopleplants/wp/wp3/appendices.htm that says
the leaves are medicinal, and also lists yet more synonyms, jiring and
Pithecellobium jiringa. Looking that name up, we find research which
identifies the name as jering... and finally, though combining the
names we find the web sites at the top.

Since no sites list extracts of this fruit, in any of it's names, I
dropped my "extract" theory and I looked into the medicinal
properties. I found more pages than that one, but for simplicty's sake
I did not want to explain any further that Jengkol went by many names.

Sometimes understanding the question is more than half the battle. I
tried to answer the question using very simple terms that would be
less easily mistranslated at the top.

Good detective work; this one had me scratching my head.

Hng, P. K.; Nayar, S. K.; Lau, W. M.; Segasothy, M. (1991) Acute renal
failure following jering ingestion. Singapore Med J 32(2):148-149
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~djw/HI-HY.html


ACUTE RENAL FAILURE DUE TO JENGKOL BEAN INTOXICATION / POISONING IN
SOUTH EAST ASIA
Husein Alatas, Department of Child Health, Medical School, University
of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
conference abstract
http://www.acpn2002.org/main/S.html