How to Make Soursop Leaf Powder

How to treat soursop leaves into powder. Soursop leaf is very beneficial to health, but many people still do not know how to process soursop leaves into herbal medicine. Of course, the most important thing and the first thing you should do is know what your disease is. Once you know what your disease is, then find out how to cure it.

Why? That's because by knowing the disease and the severity, then we can determine exactly what is right for your disease so it is more efficient and effective.

The next thing to do is determine how we process the soursop leaves. There are several methods of how to consume soursop leaves, it can be powder, soursop juice or boiled and made as a soursop leaves tea. A widely used method is to use soursop leaves which are crushed into powder and used either topically or as tea.

Each method of soursop leaves processing has difference effects in the ability of disease treatment. There are levels for severe disease and for mild disease.

How to Make Soursop Leaf Powder
The first thing you do is picking soursop leaves that has dark green color (use only mature ones). Here's how to process soursop leaves into powder:

Dry Soursop Leaves
Do not dry the soursop leaves directly under the sun. Drying in the sun is dry faster, but ultraviolet light from the sun can damage the substances contained in the leaves of soursop. If you are drying in the sun, the leaves will turn brown, which indicates the chloroplasts of the leaves have broken and the chlorophyll of the leaf is damaged. Place the leaves in the room and let it wilt, this way better to dry the soursop leaves.
Read also: Soursop Leaves Drying Method

Do not Wash Soursop Leaves
Washing will increase the water content of the leaves so it will be longer dry. The leaves are wet and stick to each other more difficult to dry and easy to rot. Wash off after the leaves are dry and just before consuming using running water.

Keep Soursop Leaves in the Dry Place
Do not keep leaves in plastic bags in large quantities and long time. Leaf piles release heat that speeds up the process of decay. Better consume it as soon as they are made.

Do not Use Oven
The heat of the oven will damage the soursop leaf content, similar to sunlight. If you have manageable oven, set the maximum heat 60 degrees Celsius.

Dry soursop leaves by spreading them evenly at a clean level. Leave it indoors or in the shade. Soursop leaves will dry in 4-5 days. The characteristics of good quality dry soursop leaves are the color is still green, because the chloroplasts still intact. Avoid using dry leaves that are brown or black. The dried leaves can be stored as usual, avoid wet and sunlight.

Then dried leaves are blended until smooth and then filtered. Then refined again until completely smooth.
Soursop leaf powder ready for consumption as medicine.

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