Rat Taro

The crowd knew taro as the taro corm could be one ingredient for the food. Types vary. In Papua, taro became staples. However, different mouse taro longer than usual. Taro mice is material for the drug used traditional material. Rat taro (Typhonium flagiliforme) began more and more known as a material for the breast cancer drug eradicator. Taro called rats because of its size smaller than usual taro. This chronic terna high measuring 10 to 45 centimeters. The more similar an animal is a mouse-colored crown of white flowers, small long-shaped, like a rat tail.

Wet trunked plants to grow in the open at an altitude of 1000 meters above sea level. Single leaf arising from tubers. Premises round leaves form n heart-shaped pointed tip. Fresh green color. These mice taro tuber rounded average of nutmeg. The inside and outside the white bulbs. For breeding, can use the tubers or seedlings grown from these tubers. In the dry season, the trunk disappeared. Whereas in the rainy season, this plant reappeared on the surface of the tubers are buried in the ground.

According to many Potopoy Pasau using mice taro as traditional medicine, this plant is leafless in the summer it is today. Because of that, he found it difficult to find. He claimed, for traditional medicine, he did not own breeding, but looking at the places where it grows taro mice. Taro rat used for the treatment of cancer, especially breast cancer.
The part used is the entire plant, both leaves, up to the tuber. Everything is crushed and added a little water. The water extract was taken her routine,''said Patopoy. These plants were warm, acidic, and toxic. Taro rat efficacious as anti-inflammatory, and can freeze the blood or reduce bleeding.

Because of toxicity, rat taro can cause itching in the throat, mouth, and skin. To overcome these poisons, need special treatment such as washing in running water. In addition, can also add honey to relieve itching in the mouth. Taro that has a name laoshu yu (Chinesse) it was already widely used and made in patent medicine. The drug was formed in the tablets. Except for serious illness, consult a doctor is recommended. For external use only, all rats taro plant material mixed with some others, crushed and placed on the affected part. Meanwhile, for use in, as much as 50 grams of rat dams taro blended ingredients, plus boiled water, filtered and drunk.

Some diseases can be overcome by external treatment with taro mice. For instance, first aid for snake bites or centipedes, dermatitis (Pyoderma), ulcers (furunculus), tumors derived from blood vessels (hemangioma), wounds, ulcers, ulceration, and yaws (frambusia). Disease that can be overcome through the use of breast cancer among others. For this disease, is used throughout the taro plant mice, crushed and added 40 cc of boiled water, then filtered. Honey can be added to it. Let stand for 30 minutes before eating. Solution was taken three times daily routine. However, for people with stomach disorders, this solution is taken after meals.  

Source: Republika Online, Tuesday, August 12, 2003.

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Red Fruit

Red fruit originally  grows wild in the forests of Papua. The popularity of the new red fruit up and become valuable after Drs. I Made Budi MSc managed to make red fruit as an alternative drug to cure deadly diseases, like cancer, diabetes, tumors, rheumatism, heart to HIV / AIDS. 

Red fruit Latin name is "Pandanus conoideus Lam" (Red Fruit = Home) is a typical plant-specific or endemic species that grow in New Guinea. Red fruit crops including plant pandanus family-like pandanan with pandanus trees, but plant height can reach 16m tall stems own branches as high as 5 to 8 m which strengthened the roots supported on the lower stems. Fruit cultivars oval leaves covered with fruit buds. Red fruit fruit itself is long reach 55 cm, 10-15 cm diameter, and weighs 2-3 kg. Color when mature bright maroon red. Although there was this plant species fructiferous brown and brownish-yellow


Ingredients of the most prominent of the red fruit is an antioxidant. Some of the most important antioxidants such as beta-carotene, tocopherol, and calcium. In fact, calcium content in red fruits was the highest in the world. Calcium is very important in the metabolism of the body to improve health conditions. Calcium functions as a cofactor in accelerating and improving the body's metabolic processes.


The process of red fruit of labor, high beta-carotene as an antioxidant bermanfat able to blow-up the development of cancer or off cancer growth through metabolism. Various journals, research has shown that beta-carotene proved useful as a cancer drug. Drs. I Made Budi MSc. been tested to a variety of other degenerative diseases such as uric acid, cholesterol, heart, and high blood. All of these diseases are not eradicated with hard red juice. In other words, like beta-carotene and tocopherol fire.

Beta-carotene slows ongoing functioning of the arteries that fleck of blood flow to the heart and the brain becomes smoothly without a hitch. Interactions with the protein increase the production of antibodies. Beta-carotene increases the number of cells and reproduce natural killer cell activity, T cells and lymphocytes helpers. Increased cell-natural killer cells suppress free radicals, carcinogens and compounds the presence of cancer cells. If antioxidants are available any time in the blood of the body cells are protected from damage by free radicals. Role of red fruit as antikarsinogen more complete with the presence of tocopherol. These compounds play a role in improving the immune system and reduce mortality mobiditas cells and tissue. Cholesterol in the blood was neutralized. Red fruit also contains omega 3 and omega 9 in high doses. For unsaturated fatty acids, omega 3 and omega 9 easily digested and absorbed so that expedite the process of metabolism.

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Mangosteen benefits

As a country that has abundant biodiversity, Indonesia has a source of herbal plants endless. One of the plants that also have the efficacy of treatment is the mangosteen. Not only delicious eaten as fresh fruit, mangosteen also has a number of other capabilities. In fact almost all the plant parts that have these properties. Mangosteen is traditionally used as medicine sprue, hemorrhoids, and wounds.

Plants that have Latin name Garcinia mangostana has a hard woody stems. Branches irregular, brown, and sticky. Bark can treat dysentery, diarrhea, and mouth sores.

Two of the mangosteen fruit washed skin, then cut into pieces, before finally boiled with four glasses of water until the volume remaining in half. Mangosteen skin stew that was cold and filtered can be added with honey and taken twice a day to see the results of treatment of dysentery suffered.

"Just as new treatments for dysentery, to cure diarrhea stayed performed similar steps. However, with the volume of water is less, only three glasses of course many,"

To treat thrush, any steps that do the same as manufacturing procedures diarrhea healing potions. Only, the cooking water distillate is used to rinse his mouth and drink as much as three to six times a day.

Mangosteen roots are steep. Mangosteen also has side hairless roots which are few, but profound. Slow growth of roots, easily damaged, and disrupted by a less favorable environment so that the contact area between the roots and the media to grow narrow. Poor rooting system of the mangosteen plant nutrient absorption caused difficulties. However, the roots remain mangosteen has a distinctive properties, which can treat the non-current period.

Other literature mentions mangosteen skin that is too potent antibiotic treat urinary tract inflammatory disease, tonsillitis, intestinal bleeding, worm medicine, hemorrhoids, ulcers, tumors in the mouth and throat.

Mangosteen skin are known to have antimicrobial power against some types of bacteria.
"Mangosteen skin is also antifungal,". Antifungal activity of some xanton isolation (one type of dye from the mangosteen) is derived from the mangosteen rind and some derivate Mangostin against Fusarium oxysporum f. mushrooms sp. Vasinfectum, Alternaria tenuis, Drechela oryzae and can inhibit the growth of all fungi.

Have also done research on the mangosteen xanton activity on the growth of Staphylococcus aureus metisilin resistant to antibiotics. The results showed that one active Isolate, alpha-Mangostin, which is one of the derivate xanton inhibit bacterial growth with MIC for 1,57-12,5 mcg / mL.

Anti-inflammatory research from the mangosteen fruit leather made using Mangostin of ethanol extract of 40%, has a strong inhibitory activity on histamine release and synthesis of prostaglandin E2 as a mediator of inflammation. Methanol extract of mangosteen rind has damping effect of a strong free radicals.

In addition, methanol extracts from the skin Mangostin mangosteen can inhibit cancer cells and can cause apoptosis in breast cancer cells and inhibit the production of reactive oxygen species as free radicals. Based on these studies, Mangostin methanol extract of mangosteen rind have potential to be kemopreventif against cancer.

Studies of anticancer activity in six xanton skin extracted from the mangosteen fruit invitro in human leukemia cells obtained the results that all the tested xanton inhibits cancer cell growth and induces apoptosis. The strongest effect in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells by alpha-Mangostin.

"Seeing the high chemical content of the mangosteen has, the potential for further research done enough. Whether in the field of pharmaceutical and other fields,"

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