Re: Fibromyalgia & mangosteen

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Kay-

The last response was correct, you do get Mangosteen from the

mangosteen tree Unfortunately, they don't grow here in the U.S.

(although a few have recently been cultivated in Hawaii they won't

be fully producing fruit for about 10-20 years!) There is a whole

fruit puree juice now available here!! Read on....

The mangosteen (garcinia mangostana) tree is found predominantly in

Southeast Asia in countries like Cambodia, China, Indonesia,

Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. However, the

fruit is rather delicate and does not travel well, which is why is

not commonly known in the U.S.

The people of Southeast Asia are very familiar with the prized

mangosteen fruit and Asian Health Practitioners have long made use

of pericarp for a myriad of nutritional and medicinal uses. If you

check back in my February 26th post, I go into more detail about the

science and research behind the Mangosteen.

Up until November 2002, there were no commercially available

products in the U.S. containing the mangosteen fruit.

XanGo is the name of the company that was first to bring the

Mangosteen juice to this country. You can check them out at

http://www.xango.net

Since thousands of people have been benefiting from mangosteen

juice, there are a couple of copy-cat juices available -- but XanGo

is the only one with the whole fruit (rind and all). Those that are

just juice from the pulp don't have much benefit because they don't

contain the rind of the fruit -- which is where all the medicinal

properties are.

XanGo does not sell directly to the consumer but through independent

distributors like myself. I will e-mail you my information

privately since I want to respect this groups guidelines. XanGo is

so confident in their product that they do offer a 30-day money back

guarantee, so there is really no risk if you want to try it.

And as a side note, it tastes great too. My two-year old asks for

it everyday!! Unlike the shark cartilage I was reading about in

this group the other day -- that sounded horrid

Let me know if you have any other questions or would like any

additional research etc.

Alyson

-- In Rheumatoid Arthritis , " Kay Simpson "

<Siwelyak@f...> wrote:

> Alyson,

> Where do I get mangosteen fruit??

> Kay

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