Friday, August 7, 2009

The Acai Fruit Story

By Dr. Jerimiah Crossderd

For centuries, the Amazon rain forest has been believed to have a plethora of medicines within plants and herbs that could cure most ailments known today.

This syory has always been thought of as a myth until now! Deep within the Amazon rain wilderness lies a berry that has been an Amazonian treasure for hundreds of years. The Acai fruit sheds many answers to the myths of old.

The Acai fruit (pronounced Ah-sigh-ee) has been cultivated by the indigenous people of the Amazon rain forest for centuries. It has proven to be a panacea for everything from the common cold to diabetes. New scientific discoveries even link this tiny berry to curing cancer.

The story of the discovery of the acai fruit is an amazing one indeed--There was a tribe that had been blessed for centuries but now faced the threat of famine. The situation was so dire that the leader of the tribe, a proud man by the name of Itaki, made a law that all children were to be sacrificed.

Unbeknown at the time to Itaki, declaration would even infiltrate his own family. He discovered that his own daughter, Laca, was about to give birth, so she to would have to sacrifice her firstborn child.

The starvation and thirst caused the tribal leaders daughter to imagine that she saw her child outside. with haste, she ran out side toward a palm tree that she imagined her child to be at

The next day the tribe began to look for Laka where they finally discovered her lifeless body under the palm tree. In grief they looked up and discovered bundles of fruit berries in the palm tree, which they later named acai fruit

This single berry not only saved the tribe from hunger, but was instrumental in this tribe's economic growth. The people of Belem -- the state in Brazil where the Acai fruit is harvested -- are said to be the descendants of this same tribe.

This tiny Acai fruit is still proven to be one of the largest economic exports for this tiny city in Brazil.

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