{"id":2518,"date":"2023-02-01T07:40:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T02:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:48:20","slug":"heimang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/heimang\/","title":{"rendered":"Heimang"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Key facts about Heimang<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Heimang tree grows widely in <strong>Manipur and other north-eastern regions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its fruit have a citrus-like tartness and, it is packed with nutrients such as <strong>polyphenols, flavonoids, and antioxidants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Traditional healers of Manipur called Maibas or maibis, prescribe heimang for common <strong>gastrointestinal problems<\/strong> like diarrhoea and dysentery.<\/li>\n<li>It is also recommended to eat water-soaked fruit for indigestion and stomach ulcer.<\/li>\n<li>The research found that compounds isolated from the stem of the heimang tree can significantly suppress <strong>HIV-1 activity in vitro.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Local communities in the state also use heimang leaves to prepare a herbal shampoo called chinghi by boiling them with rice water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:)What are Flavonoids?<\/h3>\n<p>Flavonoids, a group of natural substances with variable phenolic structures, are found in fruits, vegetables, grains, bark, roots, stems, flowers, tea and wine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/food\/savour-the-tang-manipur-s-heimang-is-a-versatile-ingredient-in-asian-cuisines-and-packs-a-nutritional-punch-87076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Savour the tang: Manipur\u2019s heimang is a versatile ingredient in Asian cuisines and packs a nutritional punch.<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heimang tree grows widely in Manipur and other north-eastern regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}