Ceplukan

This plant is widely sought and found by the children of rural crops at harvest time arrives. Usually during the peanut harvest. Once peanut dipanem (repealed), who lives just a grass that grows on the sidelines of peanuts, including ceplukan tree.

In seasons like this are usually old enough ceplukan trees and lots of fruit is ripe, the fruit skin is rather dry and the fruit itself has yellowed ceplukannya. In addition to searching for the remaining peanuts / left after harvest, usually the children also pick ceplukan fruit that is very sweet and tasty.

This plant thrives in low altitude up to 1550 meters above sea level. Ceplukan is a shrub season. Growing up in vacant lots that are not too muddy, the edge of the gutter, the edge of the gardens and fields. The flowers are yellow, the fruit is round and green and yellow when young, but when the old brown with sour-sweet-sour taste. Ciplukan the young fruit is protected cangkap (veil covering the fruit).
Ciplukan (Physalis minina) including in the plant family Solanaceae. Another name of Morel ceplukan include berries (England); Ciplukan (Indonesia); Ceplukan (Java); Cecendet (Sunda); Yoryoran (Madura); Lapinonat (Seram); Questionnaire, kepok-kepokan, Keceplokan (Bali), Dedes (Sasak); Leletokan (Minahasa).

The nature of this plant analgesic (painkiller), peluruh urine (diuretic), neutralize toxins, relieve cough, activate the body's glands and anti tumor. These plants have a chemical content of Chlorogenik acid, acid citrun, fisalin, flavonoids, saponins, polyphenols. The fruit contains malic acid, alkaloids, tannins, kriptoxantin, vitamin C and sugar. Seeds contain elaidic acid.

With herb ceplukan, apparently incurable diseases, among others:

1. Hypertension. Provide a safe 5 grams (dried herbs) ceplukan and input into the water 110 ml. Boil the mixture for 10-15 minutes while stirring occasionally until then strain and let cool. Water decoction is drunk two times a day, morning and afternoon, each 100 ml. For attention, boiled water that has been stored more than 24 hours should not be taken because it is damaged.
2. Diabetes. To treat diabetes, provide 10 grams of safe ciplukan and 400 ml of water. Ways of making potions and use the same rules for treating hypertension.
3. Ulcers. To treat boils, provide a handheld ciplukan leaf, 1 teaspoon fennel pulasari, a betel leaves, and a little salt. Combine all ingredients and knead until soft. Spread around the ulcer. Ulcers will quickly break up and dry quickly.
4. Ulcers. Take a handful of leaves ciplukan add 2 tsp water and whiting. Mash until smooth, then paste to the affected part.
5. Bleeding Gums. Because rich in vitamin C, fruit ciplukan can be used to cure bleeding gums, do, eat 30 ciplukan fresh fruit every day.
6. Diabetes Mellitus. Way, ciplukan plants that have been fruitful and the roots removed and cleaned, then withered and boil with 3 cups water to 1 cup boiling until settled down, then filtered, and drink 1 a day.
7. Lung disease. The trick, complete ciplukan plants (roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits) boiled with 3-5 cups water to boiling and filtered, taken 3 times a day 1 cup.
8. Epilepsy. The trick, 8-10 ciplukan fruit grains are cooked, eaten every day routine.

Now it is widely available in packs ceplukan capsule that can be used to address various grievances of the disease.

And you are announcing that this ceplukan fruit in European countries is a dessert the most preferred mouth, so it is a potential export opportunities. Ceplukan you ever tasted the fruit?

"From research conducted confirm if Ciplukan has the potential to be developed as a chemopreventive agent," said Ameilinda Monikawati on the campus of the University of Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta on Wednesday (1/12/2010).

Meanfaat plants proved able to inhibit breast cancer cells after the extract used. Extracts obtained daripengolahan ciplukan fruit that has been removed roots.

Ameilinda said chemopreventive activity of ethanolic extracts of herbs Ciplukan be an alternative treatment of breast cancer patients. While breast cancer treatment with chemotherapy has been considered less effective. With chemotherapy often results in resistance, as well as some side effects such as nausea, vomiting, toxicity to normal tissue, cardiac toxicity to suppress the immune system.

"Because it takes an alternative cancer therapy safer, more affordable and effective," he said.

In vitro from this study successfully suppress cancer cell growth by 20 percent. It's just not only in vitro, to support research Ciplukan potential as a chemopreventive agent in breast cancer test is also conducted in vivo. In vivo test is aimed to observe the effect of EHC on test animals strain Sprague Dawley female rats.

Test in vivo, said hispatologi Amelianda done through observation of breast cells with haematoxylin & eosin staining method, and the activities antiproliferasi EHC with AgNOR method in mice induced DMBA. The results showed that EHC could inhibit the process karsiogenesis of DMBA and have antiproliferative activity by showing black dots (mAgNOR value) compared with the DMBA control group.

From research conducted Amelianda, Inna and Sofa concluded Ciplukan potential to be developed as an agent kemoprevensi breast cancer through induction of apoptosis and inhibition of cell proliferation. In addition Ciplukan can be used also as co-agent chemotherapy with doxorubicin.

"Therefore, test of selectivity and expression in a variety of proteins involved in triggers apoptosis and cell cycle regulation is necessary to know the security and molecular mechanisms in inhibiting the growth of breast cancer," said Amelianda.