You are Here > Fruit Trees > Paw Paw Trees >. Alternative Views: The native American Paw Paw tree is a cold hardy fruit tree that grows all the way northwards to Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The Paw Paw fruit is soft and tasty like banana custard and pleasingly aromatic like ripe bananas.
BH Staff / March 15, 2013. . . . rutin in apples is a better blood-thinner than any medication. We have always maintained that food is our best medicine. Thereâs one catch, however: it has to be real food, not the phony âfood-like substancesâ that pass for food in todayâs supermarkets.ike quercetin, rutin is an antioxidant with anti-inflammatory and anti-allergy ability, and it increases intracellular levels of vitamin C. And now a new study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation has found that rutin works better than any of the anti-clotting drugs (like Coumadin) at blood thinning.
Close-up of an assortment of vitamins. Photo Credit manu10319/iStock/Getty Images. Your body maintains a delicate balance with your blood to ensure you have enough blood and that it is not too thick or too thin. Over time, excess cholesterol or clotting factors in your blood can make your blood thicker and more likely to clot -- an occurrence that can lead to a heart attack or stroke. While your physician may prescribe medications to thin the blood, certain vitamins also have been shown to have blood-thinning effects.