Overview About Plants Benalu Tea
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Parasites are parasitic plants, parasites live by taking the basic nutrients possessed by the host to be further processed into food and energy in order to grow the parasite. Because parasites take the basic nutrients from the host, then some of the compounds contained in the parasite resemble the host. Behind the destructive power of parasites, there are amazing benefits. In the world of medicine, especially cancer, plants that most of the spread is assisted by this bird is familiar. One type of parasite is well known by the community is parasite tea. Benalu tea is undoubtedly useful as a plant that has anti-cancer properties.
For treatment known some kind of parasite, that is in tea plant, starfruit, and duku. In tea known as Scurrulla atropurea, in starfruit Macrosolen cochinchinensis, parasite mango Dendropthoe petandra, or parasite duku Loranthaceae dendrophthoe
Content of Active Compound
Benalu tea or called in Latin Scurrula antropurpurea, containing active compounds quersitrin, alkaloids, saponins, flavonoids, and tannins. The number and type of active compounds in the parasite depends on the type of parent plant.
Pharmacological Effects and Results:
Herba parasite is anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, diuretic, hypotensive, anti-inflammatory, anticancer and antiproliferasi.
Dr. Hendig Winarno, researcher BATAN for 3 years succeeded in proving the benefits of parasite scientifically. In the study was isolated 16 compounds from parasite. It turned out that one of its compounds, octet-8.10.12-trinoic acid was able to inhibit the invasion of cancer 99.4% at a concentration of 10mg / ml. this compound is an unsaturated fatty acid, containing 18 carbon atoms. On that basis it is believed to be octa-3,10,12-trinoic acid that has been working as an anticancer.
Several other researchers since the 1990s have conducted research to assess the properties of parasites as anticancer. In laboratory studies known in vitro and in vivo ingredients contained in parasite duku able to inhibit breast cancer cells, uterus, leukemia, nasopharynx, cysts and colon. Drugs commonly used as a cancer drug usually work with cycle-dependent drug system that selectively kills cancer at certain phases of growth such as mitosis or synthesis of DNA. The duku contains duku mistellectin and viscotoxin. Mistellectin is a glycoprotein which has a specificity in the hydrate group of charcoal (lectin), whereas viscotoxin is known to be a low molecular weight polypeptide.
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