PARTE UTILIZADA= Used part: Hojas y semillas. 

ACCIÓN FARMACOLÓGICA= Pharmacological action: Analgésico gastrointestinal, antidiarréico. 

COMPOSICIÓN QUíMICA= Chemical composition: posee los siguientes compuestos : alcaloides isoquinolinocos-anomuricina, anomonicina, anomurina, anonaína, anoniina, atherospermina, atherosperminina, (+)-coclaurina, (+)-coreximina, (+)-reticulina, alcaloides misceláneos -muricina, muricinina, taninos, polifenoles, leucocianidina, ácidos cafeico, y ácido pcumárico, compuestos cianogenéticos, vitamina C, el aceite fijo en semillas (23.9 %), compuesto principalmente de ácidos insaturados, sustancia insecticida no identificada y sacarosa . Además se reportan las siguientes lactonas : annomontacina, annonacina, annonacinona, montanacina, solamina muricatacina y murisolina. Delas hojas aislaron un alcaloide tetrahidroisoquinolínico, llamado higenamina (desmetilcoclaurina) que demostró efecto inotrópico positivo. 

ZONA GEOGRÁFICA= Geografical zone: Panamá. 

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Hojas: Hipotensor

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Arbol, Amazonico

Uso: Gastritis, Inflammación, Riñones, Cancer / Hojas, fresco / Oral / Hervir 1/2 litro de agua con 10 Hojas de Guanábana, 10g de Amor Seco, Pineapple Peels y Achiote por 3-4 minutos. Tomar frío, 3-4 tazas por día por 1 mes.
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Distribución
Ampliamente cultivada en América Tropical.

Usos

Hojas
Parasitosis intestinal: el jugo obtenido de siete hojas frescas, trituradas. Se toma una cucharadita en ayunas o antes de las comidas.

Corteza
Cólicos: se prepara una infusión o cocimiento con corteza, raíz y hojas, las tres juntas o bien por separado; se toma una taza del preparado caliente.

Parts used: leaf, fruit/belly

Uses: pain, childbirth, diarrhea, fever, headache, giddyness, parasites, vomiting, weakness, boiled with Bixa orellana and taken to alleviate childbirth; leaves boiled, water used to bathe for fever or headache

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Uses: diabetic, cancer, cholestterol, fatigue, local pain, gastrointestinal problems, weight loss, menopauce, kidney infection, snakebite.

Origin:  Belize, Bolivia, Caribbean, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Gabon, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, United States, Venezuela

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Stem: Bark and leaf infusion for a sedative or cardiotonic.
StemToxicity: Branches contain irritant sap.

Leaf: for antispasmodic infusions and a calmative; in cataplasms to treat whitlow; infusion for fever with a cold, for a sedative, and to relieve overheating; extract calms nervous conditions; decoction for hypertension and heart conditions such as palpitations, the latter benefitted especially when the leaves are mixed with Ludwigia erecta.Leaves are boiled with the leaves of avocado and drunk as an anti-hypertensive, by the Guyana Patamona. Leaves are boiled with water and drunk as a medication for fluttering of the heart, by the Guyana Patamona.

Leaf Toxicity: Narcotic.

Fruit: For bedwetting children; decoction for excess foot and hand perspiration; antiscorbutic, febrifuge; for a mild antidysenteric and a good vermifuge. Fruit is used for making a tonic, by the Guyana Patamona. In NW Guyana, used for fever, headache, hypertension, and to treat heart problems.

Seed: Ingredient in a remedy for convulsions.
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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

The fruit pulp. which is used in the preparation of drinks and ice-cream. contains vitamin C. It has been used as a febrifuge and the dried unripe fruit in the form of a powder was at one time used for dysentery. The plant (probably a tea made from the leaves) is said to induce perspiration and to be used for colds and 'nerves'. In Africa the whole plant is used for colds. coughs and fever, and the bark and root. which contain tannin. For dysentery and worms. In the Grenadines the leaves are used to make tea for fever, coughs and colds, 'to cool the blood' and as a sedative for vomiting.

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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

In addition to the uses already recorded, the heart of a ripe soursop is sometimes given to children as a remedy for worms. As an alternative treatment tea made with the leaves may be given for nine mornings followed by a dose of castor oil on the eleventh morning. The leaves of Stachytarpheta jamaicensis and Chenopodium ambrosioides are sometimes used in conjunction with those of soursop for the preparation of a tea for the treatment of worms. Soursop leaves are used in baths for the treatment of fever and pains. In Cuba the fruit pulp has been used in poultices for chigoes. An infusion of the flowers is said to be pectoral and the leaves antispasmodic and stomachic. Lunan says that the fruit taken on an empty stomach is a cure for intermittent fevers: it has also been considered diuretic. Infused or burnt, and mixed with oil. the leaves were applied to boils and a root decoction was thought efficacious in treating fish poisoning. More recent information indicates the use of soursop leaves in Jamaica for the preparation of a general beverage. as a lactagogue and, rubbed up in the hands, as an application to the head and nostrils for fainting.

1) 270 (doscientos setenta) plantas medicinales iberoamericanas. Santiago de Bogotá : CYTED-SECAB, 1995, p.26-28.

2) Barret, Bruce Economic Botany vol. 48, nro. 1 .-- p. 8-20 1994

3) Geraldini , Isanete, Journal of Ethnopharmacology v. 173, 2015 . -- p. 383-423

4) Robertt, A., et al.. Medicinal Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana)/Smithsonian NMNH. cited online: 17-08-2017

5) Escalona Cruz, José Luis; et al/ Revista Cubana de Plantas Medicinales vol. 20, no 4. 2015. p -- 429 - 439

6) Lista de plantas/Bussmann, Rainer W; Sharon, Douglas. Graphicart, 2015 .-- p. 75 - 239.

7) Mejía, Kember; Rengifo, Eisa /Plantas medicinales de uso popular en la Amazonía Peruana.-- Lima : Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, 2000. -- p. 286.

8) Asprey, G.F.; Phyllis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts I & II. – p. 4.

9) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts III & IV. – p. 49.