Why Noni Juice was a secret
Not a secret to people who drank noni juice!
Noni juice has been taken for health for centuries. Did the early people in the tropical regions of the world, where noni grows, know what they were doing when they put their trust in noni juice?
The answer has got to be ‘Yes!’
There are definite health benefits, as both ancient noni juice drinkers and modern noni juice distributors will testify. And in both the Pacific and South East Asia parents have been passing on the knowledge of these benefits to their children generation after generation. Since time immemorial, they have shown them how to use noni juice and other noni plant products cure illness and protect health.
The difficulty of telling the world about noni juice
But for historical and technological reasons this knowledge of noni juice stayed in the tropics. Western peoples were unable to confidentally travel into the tropics, and the Pacific in particular, until quite recent times. And the island hopping mentality and techniques that saw the spread of peoples from Asia into the Pacific were not suitable for exploring the rest of the world.
So for several thousand years noni juice remained unknown to the West.
How the noni juice “secret” got out
But with the opening up of Asia and the Pacific, and 20th century Western research interests changing and developing, ethnobotanists began studying ‘primitive’ healers and their use of noni juice and noni fruit.
War even played a part. During World War II the US military studied the usability and benefits of noni juice and the noni plant and recommended using noni in their Pacific Handbook for Survival
