Wednesday, January 18, 2012

3 Kinds of Anti-Cancer Herbs

Health is one of the most valuable asset in our lives. With a healthy body, many things we can do and we get in our lives. Therefore, our health should always keep the best possible.

One type of disease that is feared by the very high mortality is cancer. More common cancers arise due to the pattern of human life itself, especially unhealthy eating patterns, such as the consumption of excess fat and junk foods.

Therefore, one of the best ways to prevent cancer is to improve our diet and nutrition. According to research by experts, a lot of food we can consume as anti-cancer properties. Anti-cancer herbs are very useful for preventing and treating cancer. On this occasion I will mention three kinds of them.

3 Kinds of anti-cancer herbs are lotus, comfrey, and bitter.

Lotus (Nelumbo Nelumbium Druce)


Lotus is useful as a cancer preventative medicine and nasopharynx, is a native plant from Asia commonly grown and cultivated in the waters and ponds, sometimes found growing wild in the swamps. section which is used as a drug that is a rhizome, leaves and stalks, flowers and stamens, seeds and receptacle, as well as seeds sprout.

Chemical content contained on the lotus is: Flower: Quercetin, luteolin, isoquercitrin, kaempferol. reseptacle: Protein, fat, carbohydrates, carotene, nicotinic acid, vitamin B1, B2, C and low in nelumbine. Seeds: Rich in starch, also contain raffinose, protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus and iron. Skin containing lotus seeds nuciferine, oxoushinsunine, N-norarmepavine. Lotus seed bud: Liensinine, isoliensinine, neferine, nuciferine, pronuciferine, lotusine, methylcorypalline, demethylcoclaurine, galuteolin, hyperin, rutin. Rhizome: Starch, protein, asparagine, vitamin C.

Roots: tannic substances and asparagine. Leaves: Roemerine, nuciferine, nornuciferine, armepavine, pronuciferine, N-nornuciferine, DN-methylcoclaurine, anonaine, liriodenine, quercetin, isoquercitrin, nelumboside, citric acid, tartaric acid, malic acid, gluconic acid, oxalic acid, succinic acid, tannic substances . Basic lotus leaf: Roemerine, nuciferine and nornuciferine. Petiole: Roemerine, nornuciferine, resins and tannic substances. Oxoushinsunine found on the skin of lotus seeds suppress the development of efficacious cancer of the nose and throat, while the lotus seeds and stalks efficacious anti-hypertensive.

Comfrey (Symphytum officinale L. Em,)


Comfrey efficacious to prevent and treat breast cancer. This plant is known in Europe and Western Asia. Comfrey grows in wet grass or the edge of the ditch, and now have started used to be planted in pots or in gardens as a medicinal plant. The part that is often used for medicinal roots and leaves.

Chemical Ingredients: Leaves contain symphytine, echimidine, anadoline, al-kaloid pyrrolizidine (PAS), tannins, essential oils, allantoin, and vitamins (B 1, B2, C and E). Pyrrolizidine alkaloids are known to cause liver damage, called hepatic veno-occlusive disease (HVOD). While the roots contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids with a larger number of leaves.

Bitter (Andrographis paniculata Ness.)


Bitter effectively cure many types of cancer such as trophoblast, hydatidiform moles, trophoblastic tumors, and lung tumors. Sambiloto normally grows wild in the open, like in the garden, the river, rather lernbap vacant land, or in the yard, which is located in the lowlands to an altitude of 700 m above sea level. ordinary bitter plants are harvested when it starts flowering. After being washed, cut into pieces as needed and then dried.

Chemical Ingredients: Leaves and stems contain laktone consisting of deoksiandrografolid, andrografolid (bitter substances), neoandrografolid, and homoandrografolid. There is also a flavonoid, alkane, ketone, aldehyde, minerals (potassium, calcium, sodium), grit acid, and resin. Flavotioid most isolated from the roots, namely polimetoksiflavon, andrografin, pan.ikulin, mono-0-metilwithin, and apigenin-7, 4 - dimetileter. Andrografolid active substance proved efficacious as hepatoprotektor (protects liver cells from toxic substances).

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