There is no literature that could explain why plants named Latin Gynura Back procumbens is called continued life. Perhaps because of its usefulness in reducing a variety of diseases, thus making long life.
To be sure, until now continued life continued to be used as a reliever of various diseases. National industry has a long glance at it to be used as base material extract or various herbs in containers.
It actually stems from the recognition that many arise in the community. Already in ancient times people take advantage of continued life for a variety of complaints, ranging from ulcers, high cholesterol, hypertension up.
As disclosed Laksmi. Women living in numbers Sunday Market, South Jakarta is ordinary life continued to consume leaves as fresh vegetables. Like other vegetables, he says, leaves continued good life made ointment or fresh vegetables. "Take a leaf's life continued to taste, then wash. Can be eaten as kenikir in pecel," he said. The recipe was proven effective to relieve maag if relapse.
Cold Neutral
Another experience Indra disclosed. Employees of private companies have felt the efficacy of these leaves because of the continued life of a bee sting. He leaves the collision had smeared lives connect to the arm that stung. The result, he felt no pain at the sting and swelling did not occur.
What Indra is spoken quite reasonable because of the nature of this herb is cold and neutral. This plant contains among others alkoloid, saponins, flavonoids, and tannins. Antineoplastic properties and as lowering blood pressure. As lowering blood pressure, connect the lives not only empirically recognized as citizens expressed Nandar Jatinegara, East Jakarta.
According to him, no need to mix, enough to eat them as fresh vegetables, continued life may be an alternative to reduce the risk of high blood pressure. "Take the continued life of fresh leaves to taste. After being washed clean can be directly consumed as fresh vegetables. If you want another taste, can also be juiced, sauteed, or steamed. Remember, do not steam it too long so that its effect is not wasted," he said.
It has long been used to treat hypertension society with traditional medicine. See, there are plenty of traditional medicine to treat hypertension and phytopharmaca on the market. In addition to continued life, herbs are usually consumed to reduce hypertension, namely celery, starfruit, garlic, and Noni.
Food Supplement
A variety of recognition that comes amid continued life of the community in virtue of this challenge as a reliever hypertension among scientists and academics to prove it scientifically. Not only in the country, continued research on the efficacy of leaf life also do the experts in other countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea.
Research on the efficacy of the leaf's life continued to control blood pressure, among others, entitled Test hypotensive effect Gynura procumbens (Lour) Merr in male rats by Endang Hardini (Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Ministry of Health) and Significant Suppressive Effect of Gynura procumbens on Hypertension in hypertensive Rats by Hee Jae Lee of the Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
Research Hee Jae Lee and his colleagues performed on adult male rats. For four weeks the rats were given the continued life of the leaf extract (500 mg / kg). The results, found no toxic and no decrease in blood pressure significantly. The results of these studies form the basis for some manufacturers to examine and process the leaves continued life as a traditional medicine. There is also in the form of food supplement.
Usually into the food supplement was added several other components that contribute to the synergistic effect of continued life and had an additional component. In addition to maintaining blood pressure, leaves continued life has other effects, such as controlling blood sugar levels, lower cholesterol, prevent indigestion and reduce inflammation (inflammatory).
However, consumers are expected to be careful and make sure the product is safe by looking at its composition. Make sure the extract is not mixed with any chemicals, so the natural properties of continued life is maintained. Based on fact, this leaves a point called the continued usefulness of many lives due to health, so that seems to connect lives.
Utilize Connect Life
Actually very easy if we want to get the properties of plants which in Chinese is called She Juan Jao. The leaves are used as raw vegetables after washing clean, like other vegetables.
Savor life leaves them connect to:
Hypertension dare relieve indigestion
Prepare the continued life of fresh leaves to taste. Wash thoroughly before eaten directly as fresh vegetables. Can also be made juice, pan-fried, or steamed. Steaming the leaves should not be too long continued life, so efficacious substance was lost.
Antidote to the pain of the bite or sting
Prepare and wash the leaves fresh life continued to taste, then mash finely. Add a little water into the collision until the mortar. Rub herb and then smeared on the affected body part insect stings or bites / bee. Apply treatment twice at intervals of two hours.
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