Organic Natural Food

MANFAAT PISANG

2010-12-27T08:50:00.001+07:00

Pisang merupakan buah yang sarat gizi, hampir tidak mengandung lemak dan mudah dicerna. Karbohidrat didalam pisang sekitar 23-35%, lemak 0.2% dan seperti bahan nabati lainnya, pisang bebas kolesterol. Sebanyak 100 gram pisang akan memberikan kalori sebesar 120 kalori. Buah ini juga kaya kalium dan mengandung magnesium, selenium, besi dan vitamin-vitamin serta bebas natrium. Pisang kaya dengan vitamin B-6 yang dibutuhkan untuk kesehatan mental seseorang.

Kekurangan vitamin B-6 ini dapat menyebabkan seseorang mudah lelah dan marah serta susah tidur. Mengkonsumsi satu setengah

buah pisang setiap hari akan mencukupi kebutuhan tubuh terhadap vitamin B-6 ini. Menyantap makanan kaya kalium dan vitamin B6, khususnya pisang segar (bukan pisang rebus atau pisang goreng) juga dapat mengurangi rasa nyeri, ngilu dan sakit pada persendian. Mengkonsumsi pisang 3-4 kali sehari bahkan dipercaya dapat membantu mengurangi gejala radang sendi (arthritis). Pisang merupakan makanan kaya kalium. Satu buah pisang berukuran sedang mengandung 467 mg kalium, yang memberikan 13% kebutuhan kalium harian. Data penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengambilan kalium oleh tubuh berhubungan dengan efek penurunan tekanan darah. Pada tahun 2001, FDA (Food and Drug Administration; semacam Badan POM di USA), menyetujui bahwa makanan yang merupakan sumber kalium dan rendah natrium barangkali dapat mengurangi resiko terjadinya peningkatan tekanan darah dan stroke. Sebagai sumber kalium, pisang dapat membantu mengurangi resiko peningkatan tekanan darah. Didalam New England Journal of Medicine bahkan disebutkan, bahwa mengkonsumsi satu buah pisang sehari dapat menurunkan resiko stroke sampai 40%. Jika anda merasa lesu di antara waktu makan, ambil saja pisang. Gula buah yang terkandung didalamnya (yang tergolong karbohidrat sederhana), akan mudah dicerna dan masuk ke aliran darah sehingga menghasilkan energi instant. Selain itu, dengan pasokan kalium dari pisang, jaringan otot akan bertenaga kembali selama beberapa saat sebelum tubuh mendapatkan pasokan energi darurat dari makanan utama. Karena hal ini pula, tidak heran jika para atlet terutama atlet tennis seringkali mengkonsumsi pisang sebelum dan pada saat bertanding untuk pengusir lelah dan pemberi tenaga. Didalam The Food Pharmacy oleh Jean Carper, pisang bahkan disebut sebagai makanan mujarab bagi penderita penyakit mag. Barangkali sifat spasmolitik pisang, yang menurunkan kerja lambung dan mengurangi sekresi enzim serta asam lambung, turut berperan dalam menghasilkan khasiat ini. Kandungan pektin yang tinggi didalam pisang juga dapat melindungi selaput lendir lambung terhadap pengaruh asam lambung dan enzim (pepsin). Pisang juga kaya serat makanan atau karbohidrat kompleks. Konsumsi serat makanan akan membantu memperlancar buang air besar dan sangat baik untuk mencegah kanker usus besar (ditulis oleh : Elvira Samsir

MANFAAT TOMAT

2010-12-26T22:25:00.002+07:00

Senjata ampuh di dalam tomat berupa bahan aktif yang disebut likopen. Zat ini merupakan senyawa antioksidan golongan karotenoid dan paling banyak terdapat pada tomat berwarna merah. Dalam tubuh manusia, senyawa ini disimpan dalam testis, kelenjar adrenal, dan prostat. Hasil penelitian di Italia membuktikan bahwa konsumsi likopen dosis tinggi bisa menurunkan risiko terkena kanker perut dan usus.

Menurut Dr. Ida Gunawan, MS, sebenarnya likopen tidak mempunyai aktivitas provitamin A. Hanya saja, kekuatannya sebagai antioksidan dua kali dari betakaroten (provitamin A) dan sepuluh kali lipat daripada vitamin E. Jadi reaksi likopen sebagai antioksidan di dalam tubuh jauh di atas vitamin A, C, E, maupun mineral lain. Berbagai penelitian dibuktikan manfaat likopen. Ia sangat baik untuk mencegah kanker, terutama kanker sel epitel seperti kanker prostat, paru, kolon (usus besar), ovarium, dan payudara.

Penelitian terhadap manfaat likopen telah pula dilakukan Dr. Ida di FKUI Jakarta. Subjek penelitiannya adalah perokok ringan. "Sebelum diberi zat likopen, kerusakan DNA likositnya sangat tinggi. Namun, setelah saya beri likopen, perubahannya besar sekali. Hari pertama saja sudah ada perbaikan sebesar 43,2 persen. Likopen tersebut berasal dari jus tomat," kata dosen Akademi Perawat RS St. Carolus, Jakarta ini.

Kandungan tomat tentu tidak hanya likopen, tapi ada pula serat, fosfor, kalium, betakaroten, vitamin C, dan lainnya. Yang terbanyak memang likopen, yakni 56,6 persen. Karena itu ia menganjurkan untuk mengonsumsi jus tomat sekitar 400-600 gr per hari. Proses pemasakan tidak akan merusak likopen. Justru dengan dimasak likopen jadi lebih mudah diserap tubuh, apalagi jika ditumis dengan sedikit minyak zaitun.

Cara terbaik untuk mendapatkan manfaat likopen secara maksimal, menurutnya, dengan mengukus tomat sekitar 5-10 menit hingga kulit luarnya terkelupas. Tujuannya supaya matrik yang menempel pada kulit luar itu terlepas. Dengan demikian, likopen yang terikat dengan matrik bisa dilepaskan secara mudah.

Setelah dikukus, tomat diblender kurang lebih 2,5 menit. Baru kemudian disaring dan diminum. "Minumnya sehabis makan, supaya dapat tambahan lemak dari makanan yang kita asup. Berdasarkan penelitian saya, minum jus tomat olahan 350 gr sehari sudah mampu memperbaiki kerusakan DNA sampai hampir 50 persen," tuturnya.

Bagi mereka yang sulit menghentikan kebiasaan merokok, ia menganjurkan untuk mengonsumsi jus tomat olahan secara rutin. Perokok mengalami serangan radikal bebas yang besar sekali. Padahal, radikal bebas dari rokok juga mengakibatkan kerusakan DNA. Itu artinya perokok sangat berpotensi terkenal serangan jantung, kanker, impotensi, dan gangguan kehamilan. Dengan mengonsumsi jus tomat olahan, kerusakan DNA dapat diperbaiki.

Likopen pada prinsipnya merupakan pigmen yang berwarna merah kekuningan. Buah, sayuran, dan daging hewan yang berwarna merah kekuningan pasti mengandung likopen. Selain pada tomat, likopen bisa ditemukan pada lobster dan ikan salmon

Tomat mengandung:

Vitamin C - ada antioksidannya yang berguna untuk membantu membuang radikal bebas dalam tubuh.

Tomatine - berkhasiat anti radang, karoten dan asam sitrat. Jika tomat digosokkan di wajah, kandungan asam sitrat tersebut dapat membantu mengangkat kotoran dan lemak, sehingga bisa dipakai obat jerawat alamiah hanya dengan menggosokkannya secara perlahan di wajah.

Karbohidrat - bila dikonsumsi secara teratur dapat menjadi tambahan sumber energi bagi tubuh yang diperlukan untuk kinerja berbagai fungsi tubuh, seperti memacu otak dan otot-otot tubuh. GOOD News kan buat para dieter yang sedang diet Low carb. Karbohidrat dari buah lebih mudah dicerna & lebih baik daripada karbohidrat dari nasi/mi/roti.

Lemak - nah ini justru yang penting bagi para dieter yang sedang mengurangi asupan makanan. Lemaknya pun mengandung asam lemak essensial yang memberi manfaat bagi kulit dan bagian tubuh lain. Selain itu berfungsi juga untuk melarutkan vitamin A, D, E, K yang baik untuk mata & peredaran darah (TIPS Bagus ni, kalo minum suplemen vitamin, perlu juga mengkonsumsi lemak. Karena kalo tidak, vitamin akan dibuang begitu saja dari tubuh karena gak ada temenannya untuk mencerna vitamin-vitamin itu - ttg ini akan dibahas at another topic, ok!).

Protein - di dalam tubuh menjadi sumber asam amino yang digunakan tubuh untuk membangun dan mengganti sel-sel yang rusak.

Tomat menjadi andalan untuk melakukan detoksifikasi tubuh melalui terapi jus. Bahkan menurut penelitian Ohio State Univ, tomat dapat membantu penanganan kanker prostat, berkat zat antioksidan (lycopene) yang dikandungnya.

So makanlah banyak tomat biar sehat!! Ayo Indonesia, go healthy.

ORGANIC FOOD OVERSIGHT

2010-05-09T01:47:00.001+07:00

ATLANTA -- Elysa Greenwald said buying organic food is important to her. She said it's so important, she's willing to pay up to 50 percent more for groceries.
"I specifically look for fruits and vegetables that are organic and have the USDA label," said Greenwald.
Records revealed the organic food business made $26 billion in 2008. Consumers can tell if an item is organic by the price and the USDA label. Government rules show the USDA is supposed to certify that a product claiming to be organic truly is. Still, research by the agency's own watch dog group found real problems with that program. Channel 2 Consumer Investigator Jim Strickland got looked at an audit that spelled it all out.

According to USDA procedures, organic foods get the label only after inspectors verify the farm uses no chemicals to kill the weeds or bugs.
The organization confirmed it uses mostly private inspectors, but the audit found its oversight is poor and the standards inconsistent. The audit cited slow responses to complaints and lax enforcement against cheaters.

There's not enough oversight that's actually occurring to ensure that what you're buying is indeed organic," said Dr. Mike Doyle of the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety. "If you're going to put that label on it to say it's organic, then you have to follow those standards."
Federal law also states the certifiers are supposed to spot-check organic foods to look for forbidden chemicals. Auditors said they found no evidence of periodic testing anywhere.
"I've been feeding my children foods that I thought were giving their bodies more support, and nobody's watching it," Greenwald said.
One reason could be the cost of the testing. Channel 2 Action News paid a local lab more than $1000 to test three samples of Whole Foods' frozen organic vegetables we bought at Harry's Farmer's Market. All had the organic seal, but the label showed they came from China. The testing revealed the vegetables were chemical free. A representative at Whole Foods told Strickland the company does its own spot-checking.
Officials with the federal government said its testing program will begin in September.
Meanwhile, members of the advocacy group Georgia Organics said consumers can exercise control themselves by buying from local farms and buying in season.
"I guess in everything there are going to be cheaters. That's one more reason to know your farmer and know where your food stuff comes from," said Alice Rolls with Georgia Organics.
Copyright 2010 by WSBTV.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

What is Organic Food?

2010-04-15T08:23:00.000+07:00

FOOD organic, is basically any type of food that comes from living organisms (animal or plant). However, when this term is used in organic products is limited to plants that use little or no pesticides and artificial fertilizers.

Benefits of several types of organic food for health:

* Avocados: to maintain good health and growth of cells.
* Garlic: antikolesterol and premature aging.
* Onion: help prevent stomach cancer.
* Spinach: good for brain health and vision health.
* Fruit berry: prevent infection of the prostate and urethra.
* Broccoli: helping the body dispose of substances are carcinogens.
* Cabbage: useful for the prevention of colon cancer, stomach and breast

* Tomatoes: to help prevent cervical cancer, pancreas and intestine.
* Carrots: preventing premature aging.

The benefits of organic food

* Working to clean the blood.
* Discard the toxins that accumulate in cells.
* Assist the regeneration of new cells.
* Maintain levels of acid-base balance without drugs, vitamins or any additional supplements.

Advantages of organic food

* Have a better nutritional content. The average organic food has vitamin C, minerals, and phytonutrients (substances in plants that can fight cancer) is higher than conventional food.
* Organic food is more durable not easy to talk.
* Saves the production process and reduce the level of environmental damage.

Non-organic food hazards

a. Elements and the effects of pesticides contained in foods:

* Causing disturbances of consciousness (cognitive dysfunction) as difficult to spell, read, write, distinguish colors, including speaking.
* Increasing the risk to the physical disruption of the brain.
* One of the causes of breast cancer.
* Potential to cause problems with sperm production.

b. Pesticide threat to humanity.

* Threatening the next generation. Children are potentially exposed to more pesticides than adults.
* Pollution of ground water.
* Wasteful of energy, lots of energy needed to produce chemical fertilizers than to cultivate and harvest crops.

Organic foods Tips

* Choose vegetables, fruits or meat which has in fact has particularly clear and official label.
* Wash the organic vegetables or fruits with running water (tap) several times, in order to avoid vegetables from silkworm eggs.
* Boil the vegetables with a fairly hot temperature. So that can be deadly bacteria that stick to eggs (Source : sehat-organik.com)

Organic Baby Clothing and Bedding

2010-03-29T09:21:00.000+07:00

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - It’s true that conventional baby clothing and bedding—conventional referring to that made with cotton grown using synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and bleached and dyed with yet more harsh chemicals—hasn’t seemed to present a problem thus far for generations and generations of babies. But more awareness of chemical sensitivities has many environmentalists and public health advocates wondering if the clothes and bedding children are exposed to could be impacting their health negatively.

Some 25 percent of the world’s pesticides and 10 percent of insecticides go to cotton crops every year. In addition, petroleum scouring agents, softeners, brighteners, heavy metals, flame and soil retardants, ammonia and formaldehyde are used in the processing of cotton once it is harvested. Beyond the environmental impacts of this onslaught in the vicinity of production facilities, there is increasing concern that residues of some of these chemicals might rub off on baby. According to Rachel Birchler of Mooi, a Pittsburgh-based organic children’s clothing boutique, a baby’s skin is more porous and thinner than that of an adult, and as such absorbs stuff more easily. “This means that children are at greater risk for pesticide-related health problems than adults,” she says.

Johnson & Johnson, one of the world’s leading purveyors of baby products, states on its website that “a baby’s skin is thinner, more fragile and less oily than an adult’s” and is “less resistant to bacteria and harmful substances in the environment.” Lotus Organics, which makes organic clothing for both babies and adults, reports that “millions of children in the U.S. receive up to 35 percent of their estimated lifetime dose of some carcinogenic pesticides by age five through food, contaminated drinking water, household use, and pesticide drift.”

So if organic cotton is so much better all around, why aren’t we all swaddling our babies in it and wearing it ourselves? It’s all about cost. Clothing and bedding made from organic cotton is typically more expensive than similar products made with conventional cotton. Consumers watching their spending are often unwilling to pay more for a t-shirt or pants that are just going to get spilled on and beaten up.

But boosters for organic cotton say that paying less for conventional cotton items is penny wise and pound foolish. “Conventionally produced cotton material lasts 10-20 washes before it starts to break down,” reports Mooi’s Birchler. “An organic cotton material lasts for 100 washes or more before it begins to wear down.” How could that be? “Conventionally produced cotton take so much abuse in production because it goes through scouring, bleaching, dying, softeners, formaldehyde spray, and flame and soil retardants before it is even shipped to be cut for patterns,” she explains.

Also, with more and more organic cotton products becoming available every day, from specialty shops to major retailers like Wal-Mart and Target, the price premium for going organic is starting to shrink.

CONTACTS: Mooi, www.mooishop.com; Johnson & Johnson, www.jnj.com; Lotus Organics, www.lotusorganics.com.

Nigella Sativa Oil (Habatus Saudah)

2010-03-06T18:11:00.000+07:00

Nigela Sativa can be compared to Echinacea, the well known immune booster but works in a very different way, which makes it even suitable for diseases of the immune system itself, eg. allergies; MS; TB; cancer; aids etc, where Echinacea could have detrimental effects.

The oil of nigella sativa is so beneficial due to it's content of over a hundred components such as aromatic oils, trace elements, vitamins and enzymes. It contains 58% of essential fatty acids including omega 6 and omega 3. These are necessary for the forming of Prostaglandin E1 which balances and strengthens the immune system giving it the power to prevent infections and allergies and control cronic illnesses. Healthy cells are protected from viruses thus inhibiting tumours. Blackseed oil also contains about 0.5 - 1.5% volatile oils including nigellone and thymochinone which are responsible for its anti-histamine, anti-oxidant, anti-infective and broncho-dilating effect.

As an oil it is digested through the lymphatics consequently purifying and unblocking the lymphatic system.

Nigella Sativa oil was found in Tutankhamen's tomb. It is known to have been used by Cleopatra for it's health and beauty giving qualities.

The Greek physician Dioskorides used Blackseed to treat headaches, nasal congestion, toothache and intestinal parasites. Hypocrates, the grandfather of todays scientific medicine regarded Nigella Sativa as a valuable remedy in hepatic and digestive disorders.

Ibn Sina, the author of the Canon of Medicine, one of the most famous books in the history of medicine recommends Blackseed stimulates the metabolism and to recover from dispiritedness and lethargy.

Ayurvedic medicine appreciates its many qualities and bitter, warming, stimulant nature. Here it is used or a wide variety of diseases like haemorrhoids, hepatitis, fever, diarrhoea, cough, tapeworm, to mention only a few of them.

The earliest written reference to Blackseed is found in the book of Isiah in the Old Testament 28:25-27. It is most famous for the saying of the holy prophet Muhammad (sws), 'Hold on to use of the Blackseed, for it has a remedy for every illness except death.' The wording 'hold onto' indicates a long term use.

Since 1959 there have been over 200 different studies at universities and laboratories. At the Cancer Research Laboratory of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA, one of the largest experimental studies so far proved that Nigella Sativa oil had enormous success in tumour therapy without the negative side effects of common chemo-therapy. They found that it increased the growth rate of bone marrow cells by a staggering 250% and it inhibited tumour growth by 50%. It stimulated immune cells and raised the interferon production which protect cells from the cell destroying effect of viruses. They confirmed the strongly anti-bacterial and anti-micotic effects and that it has an effect in lowering the blood sugar level which is essential for the treatment of diabetes.

Recently independent clinical studies published in the archives of Aids also established some astonishing effects of blackseed on the defence system by improving the ration between helper t-cells and suppresser t-cells by a significant amount while also enhancing the natural killer cell activity.

Experiences of doctors in Munich displayed that 70% of patients with allergic conditions, among them being pollen and dust allergies, asthma and neuro-dermitis were cured by Nigella Sativa.

Examples of Use

Acne:
Half a teaspoon of nigella sativa oil in a bowl of hot water, vapour bath with a towel over head.
Increase intake of Zinc.
Asthma and Cough:
Rub the back and chest with nigella sativa oil. Drink one tsp after meals three times a day.
Inhale vapour of boiling water with 1 tsp of oil with a towel over head.
Colds and Flu
1 tsp of nigella sativa oil three times a day. Drink hot lemon with honey.
Lethargy
1 tsp of nigella sativa oil with orange juice for 10 days.
Nervous Tension
½ tsp nigella sativa oil with herbal tea like lemon balm, clary sage, passion flower, St. John's Wort.
Healthy Complexion
Rub ½ tsp oil all over face. Wash with cold water.
Tired legs, muscles etc.
Massage on affected area.
Backache, arthritis, bruises & rheumatism
Heat nigella sativa oil slightly and massage intensely. Drink 1 tsp oil with 1tsp olive oil 3 times a day.
High blood pressure.
Drink 1 tsp in any hot drink. Take 2 lobes of garlic before breakfast.
Stomach complaint
Drink mint tea with lemon and take 1 tsp nigella sativa oil 3 times a day or until relieved.
Diarrhoea
1 tsp nigella sativa oil with a cup of yoghurt. Take 2 times daily. Also eat boiled rice with yoghurt.
Hair Loss
Stroke the scalp thoroughly with lemon, leave for 15 minutes then wash and dry. Then apply ½ - 1 tsp nigella sativa oil.
Headache
Rub the forehead and sides of the head and part of the face near the ears with thenigella sativa oil. Drink ½ tsp of oil after a meal 3 times a day.
Earache
Mix ½ tsp nigella sativa oil with ½ tsp olive oil, warm and then drip drops into the ear and cover the ear with a woollen shawl or hat.
Intestinal parasites
Take 1 tsp nigella sativa oil with 'wormwood' capsules. Eat plenty of onions and garlic.
Colic (babies)
Warm nigella sativa oil in hand, massage the whole abdomen with it, stroking clockwise.
Sinusitis
Inhale through nose with vapour bath, take 1 tsp daily in chronic cases, 3 times daily in acute cases.
Skin fungus
Wipe affected area with cider vinegar, then apply nigella sativa oil, repeat if necessary.

Cara Makan Rasululloh saw

2010-02-24T22:48:00.001+07:00

Lepas dari subuh, Rasulullah membuka menu sarapannya dengan segelas air yang dicampur dengan sesendok madu asli. Khasiatnya luar biasa. Dalam Al qur`an, kata “syifa” / kesembuhan, yang dihasilkan oleh madu, diungkapkan dengan isim nakiroh, yang berarti umum, menyeluruh. Di tinjau dari ilmu kesehatan, madu befungsi membersihkan lambung, mengaktifkan usus-usus, menyembuhkan sembelit, wasir dan peradangan. Dalam istilah orang arab, madu dikenal dengan “al hafidz al amin”, karena bisa menyembuhkan luka bakar.

Masuk waktu dluha, Rasulullah selalu makan tujuh butir kurma ajwa`/matang. Sabda beliau, barang siapa yang makan tujuh butir korma, maka akan terlindungi dari racun. Dan ini terbukti ketika seorang wanita yahudi menaruh racun dalam makanan Rasulullah dalam sebuah percobaan pembunuhan di perang khaibar, racun yang tertelan oleh beliau kemudian bisa dinetralisir oleh zat-zat yang terkandung dalam kurma. Bisyir ibnu al Barra`, salah seorang sahabat yang ikut makan racun tersebut, akhirnya meninggal. Tetapi Rasulullah selamat. Apa rahasianya? Tujuh butir kurma!

Dalam sebuah penelitian di Mesir, penyakit kanker ternyata tidak menyebar ke daerah-daerah yang penduduknya banyak mengkonsumsi kurma. Belakangan terbukti bahwa kurma memiliki zat-zat yang bisa mematikan sel-sel kanker. Maka tidak perlu heran kalau Allah menyuruh Maryam ra, untuk makan kurma disaat kehamilannya. Sebab memang itu bagus untuk kesehatan janin.

Dahulu, Rasulullah selalu berbuka puasa dengan segelas susu dan korma, kemudian sholat maghrib. Kedua jenis makanan itu kaya dengan glukosa, sehingga langsung menggantikan zat-zat gula yang kering setelah seharian berpuasa. Glukosa itu suadah cukup mengenyangkan, sehingga setelah sholat maghrib, tidak akan berlebihan apabila bermaksud untuk makan lagi.

Menjelang sore hari, menu Rasulullah selanjutnya adalah cuka dan minyak zaitun. Tentu saja bukan cuma cuka dan minyak zaitunnya saja, tetapi di konsumsi dengan makanan pokok, seperti roti misalnya. Manfaatnya banyak sekali, diantaranya mencegah lemah tulang dan kepikunan di hari tua, melancarkan sembelit, menghancurkan kolesterol dan memperlancar pencernaan. Ia juga berfungsi untuk menncegah kanker dan menjaga suhu tubuh di musim dingin.

Jinten HItam (Nigella Sativa/Habatussauda)

2010-02-18T00:07:00.000+07:00

Dalam sistem kekebalan tubuh manusia, habatussauda adalah satu-satunya tatanan yang memiliki senjata khusus untuk menghancurkan segala macam penyakit. Sebab, setelah sel paghocytosis menelan kuman-kuman yang menyerang, ia membawa bakteri antigenic ke permukaannya, kemudian menempel dengan sel lymph, untuk mengetahui bagaimana susunan mikrobanya secara mendetil, lalu memerintahkan masing-masing sel T-lymphocytes untuk memproduksi antibodies atau sel T-spesific, khususnya adalah antigenic yang juga dibangkitkan untuk berproduksi.
Dinding sel B-Lymphocytes memiliki kurang lebih 100 ribu molekul dari antibodies yang saling bereaksi secara khusus dan dengan kemampuan yang tinggi dengan jenis khusus yang ditimbulkan oleh antigenic dalam mikroba. Antibodies menyatu dengan sel T- Lymhocytes, lalu bersama-sama dengan antigenic melawan mikroba, sehingga mikroba tidak dapat berkerja dan sekaligus bisa menghancur- kannya.
Dengan demikian, kekebalan itu merupakan kekebalan khusus untuk menghadapi setiap hewan asing yang masuk ke dalam tubuh. Karena, habatussauda mempunyai kekebalan spesifik yang didapat secara otomatis, yang memiliki kemampuan berbentuk antibodies dan senjata sel serta pengurai khusus untuk setiap hewan asing yang masuk dan menyebabkan penyakit.
Menurut Dr. Al Qadhy, habatusaudah juga mempunyai kemampuan lain, seperti untuk melawan bermacam-macam virus, kuman dan bakteri yang masuk ke dalam tubuh manusia

Bayam

2010-02-17T09:01:00.001+07:00

Bayam digunakan untuk membantu melancarkan proses buang air besar karena kandungan seratnya cukup banyak. Makanan berserat seperti bayam, baik bagi penderita kanker usus besar, kencing manis, koleterol tinggi dan untuk menurunkan berat badan. Kegunaan bayam merah antara lain :

* Dapat meningkatkan kerja ginjal dan bisa bersihkan darah sehabis bersalin.
Jika Anda ingin meningkatkan kerja ginjal, membersihkan darah sehabis bersalin maka konsumsilah bayam dalam bentuk sayur bening.
* Anemia.
Cuci 2 genggam daun bayam merah, tumbuk hingga halus, tambahkan 1 sdm air jeruk nipis lalu saring. Kemudian tambahkan 1 sdm madu dan sebutir telur ayam kampung, aduk hingga rata. Minumlah ramuan ini 1 kali sehari selama seminggu. Selanjutnya pengobatan dapat dilakukan
2 x seminggu hingga penyakit sembuh.
* Disentri. Cuci 10 batang akar bayam merah sampai bersih, lalu tumbuk hingga halus. Tambahkan garam halus seujung sendok teh dan aduk rata lalu saring. Minumlah air saringan tersebut sekaligus.
* Mempekuat Akar Rambut.
Cuci bersih seikat bayam segar, lalu tumbuk hingga halus. Tambahkan garam seujung sendok teh sambil diaduk rata, selanjutnya peras dan saring. Lalu minumlah sekaligus, lakukanlah hal demikian 2 - 3 kali seminggu.

Healthy with Herbal Medicine

2009-10-22T08:39:00.000+07:00

Herbal Treatment is the use of all or some parts of the plant to treat various diseases and maintain health. The use of plants as medicines has been known for thousands of years ago. Although often categorized as a complement or alternative in western countries, herbal medicines remains the most widely used around the world.

State users of herbal medicines oldest recorded in history, circa 2800 BC, namely China. They now had 366 kinds of plants used as medicine. Besides in China, in some other parts of the world are familiar with medicinal plants, such as Greece and Western Europe. In fact, the Greek physician Hippocrates left a list of 400 medicinal plants are studied.

Ancient times, the use of medicinal plants is always associated with myth and magic. However, now the use of medicinal plants is supported modern science. Many drugs are used tanamanan only hereditary inheritance from generation to generation, is now finding a new way of using, after detailed through chemical analysis and clinical trials. Ongoing research conducted with the aim of improving the benefits and safety of medicinal plants.

Medicinal plants can be used at home to treat minor illnesses and health care in order to stay fit. If you want to use plants as medicine, there are several things to note:

1. Make sure that you have just identified the plants that you'll use as a medicine. If in doubt ask for directions.

2. Consult a good herbal plants to make sure you do not exceed the recommended dose

3. If you take a direct medicinal plants in the wild, make sure the plants to grow in the area. Do not dig up the roots, but to preserve in some countries these illegal actions.

4. Do not wait long to see a doctor, if you get seriously ill.

Plants commonly used in home

The following plants are used at home. Some of these plants can also be easily grown at home, partly in nature and is available in stores chemicals and health food.

Stinging nettle
These plants only grow in good soil and rich, because that plant is often found in soil berkompos. These plants contain many nutrients, including iron and vitamin C, therefore it is very good consumed anemia patients. In addition, this plant is also good for those who experience allergic disorders, including eczema in children. These plants can be drunk as tea, or cooked as a vegetable.

Marigold Marigold
These plants can be used as an antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and cleansing. Leaves of this plant are widely used in many creams and ointment for skin irritations menggurangi and insect bites. Add boiling water Marigold to your bath water. To maintain the condition of the lymph channels and fungal infections, the plant boiled water can be drunk directly.

Cleavers, Clivers or Goosegrass
These plants usually appear in early spring. Pick the young leaves and the bud to be eaten as a salad or a drink like this teh.Tanaman often used as an energy enhancer in the spring, especially for swollen glands and lymph disorders patients. This plant is rich in vitamin C.

Dandelion
Dandelion is used best when he was young. Can be used in salads or tea. Dandelion leaves are excellent for stimulating kidney function, good for the heart roots. Dried roots can be a substitute for coffee and healthy.

Mediterranean Medicinal Plants
Rosemary, Thyme and Sage is a Mediterranean herbs contain many aromatic oils. Oil is used as an antiseptic, so best used as a wound cleanser, mouthwash as hoarse throats and infections of the gums. These plants can be drunk like tea and cooked as a vegetable.

All three of these plants have their respective advantages. Rosemary as a stimulant, specifically for the head. Try as you experience headaches, memory failure, and hair loss. Thyme, specifically to treat lung conditions, but it is also used as an antifungal. Sage, menggurangi sweat, so try when you experience excessive sweating when the menopause or to menggurangi milk when a mother has stopped breastfeeding.

Yarrow
Yarrow has many uses, such as reducing the problem at the time of menstruation, disturbances in blood glands, and fever. If you drink, the cooking water a little pahit.Untuk Yarrow treating influenza and fever, Yarrow is usually mixed with Elderflower and Peppermint. One ounce of a mixture of these herbs should be boiled with 0.56 liters of water and drunk while still hot. Elderflower elder flowers lots of vitamin C and menggandung good to treat influenza, fever, sinusitis, asthma, and inflammation of the mucous membranes in the nose. These plants can be consumed directly without cooking or can also be dried or frozen for use at another time.

Peppermint
Menggandung peppermint volatile ingredients, including menthol which can clean and soothing respiratory tract. This plant is lemon blossoms gave another smell in the tea that can calm the mind and lowering blood pressure.

Chamomile flowers
These plants can be anti-inflammatory and sedative, menggurangi irritation of the stomach and help those who can not sleep.

Echinacea
Echinacea is the Latin name of Purple Cone flower. Both the roots, or green parts of plants can be used as a drug. Is considered one of the most useful by the modern herbalis of echinacea has the ability to stimulate the immune system. Thus, this plant is used to treat infections, fever, and influenza. This plant as antiseptic as well for those who have immune system is weak. This plant is also expected to treat HIV infection and other infectious diseases. Not suitable for Echinea brewed, because it tastes bitter. Better, which is consumed in the form of tablets and capsules.

Source: The Encyclopedia of Complementary Medicine, Kompas Online

2. 14 Key Effectiveness Herbal Medicine

Back to nature (back to nature) is an alternative option that many people demand today, especially in the field of medicine. The use of medicinal plants, or more commonly known as actual herbs have long been used by the public. It's just that the development of modern medicine (west) made only as an alternative pilhan only. And have a lot of evidence and efficacy of herbal efficacy. Besides the more economical, herbs also have side effects is very small.

However, there are still many people who doubt the efficacy of our herbal. Though there are several factors that cause why the herb does not work effectively. Presentation of the wrong, time to drink that is not appropriate, inappropriate doses, and the user impatience are the factors that cause herbs are not effective. Prof. H.M. Hembing Wijayakusuma in his book "Complete Herbal Remedy conquered disease" mentions the things that must be considered in consuming herbal, as follows:

1. Wash Simplisia medicinal plants (herbal) with water to clean.
2. Immediately use fresh herbs that have been clean for treatment. If the material is large or thick, preferably cut into thin slices to the boiling substances contained in it easy out and permeate the cooking water. For herbal stored, first dry after being washed for durability and to prevent decomposition by bacteria and fungi. Dry ingredients (Simplisia) are also more easily be crushed to powder (powder). Drying can be directly in the sun or wearing protective. Can also diangin-aired, depending on the thickness or water content.
3. Direct brewed material has been used as powder (powder) with hot or boiling water.
4. For hard materials and difficult to be extracted, should be crushed and boiled first for about 10 minutes before adding other ingredients.
5. Use clean fresh water and contain no harmful chemicals to boil. Make sure that all jumlahhnya enough medicinal ingredients submerged approximately 3cm.
6. To boiling medicinal ingredients, use a container made from the pot soil (pottery), enamel pots, or glass pan. Do not use metal containers, such as iron, aluminum, and brass. Metals contain iron and potassium trichloride ferrycianide. Menimbulakan substance deposits in the water in treating disease. During perbusan, not too often the lid off the container so that the oil content not easily lost atsirinya.
7. Use fire sesuia with boiled herbal species.
- Small Fire: Use to boil the herbs as a tonic merit, such as ginseng and mushroom ling zhi that the active ingredients are absorbed into the cooking water (boiled about 2 hours). A small fire with a long boiling time is also used for the toxin-containing herbs, such as gods that crown toksinnya content decreases.
- Fire large: Use to boil the herbs or the merit Simplicia diaforetik (sweat) and contains many essential oils, such as mint leaves, cloves and cinnamon. After boiling, put ingredients and simmer for a while. In this way, content is not much atsirinya lost because of excessive evaporation process.
8. If there are no other provision, boiling is considered completed when the remaining half of the cooking water from the original amount of water, for example 800 cc to 400 cc. If the material is boiled yanbg mostly hard materials, such as seeds or stems the third disisakan cooking water, for example 600 cc to 200 cc.
9. If dry material contains, generally dose (dosage) half of the amount of fresh material. For example, the use of fresh leaves use a spoon and if 90 grams 15 grams dry.
10. Ensure dose medicinal plants in accordance with the recommended. Generally, 1 recipes divided medicinal plants for drinking 2 times a day. Time wasted can be boiled first boiled again for 1 drinks in the afternoon or evening.
11. Drinking boiled extract medicinal plants in warm conditions and after heavy wear or blankets. However, for certain types of herbs, such as areca nut stew should be taken to avoid the cold kotraksi with resulting gastric nausea, vomiting, and stomach cramps.
12. Generally, herbal drink boiled before eating to be easily absorbed. However, for the medicine that can stimulate the stomach, drink after eating. Drinking potions are efficacious as amplifiers (tonic) in the morning when the stomach is empty. For a nutritious herb as a sedative, such as insomnia, drink before bed.
13. Perform regular treatment. To remember, herbal treatment requires patience because it does not directly feel the benefits, but is konstruktirf (fix / build). Effects of chemical drugs it seems fast, but it is desktruktif. Because of its nature, the herb is not recommended as primary treatment of infectious diseases that are acute (medadak), such as dengue fever, vomiting, and others who must get medical help immediately. Plants are preferred drugs for health maintenance and treatment of chronic disease (chronic).
14. Herbal remedies can be combined with chemical drugs, especially for chronic diseases are difficult to cure, such as cancer to obtain results more effective treatment. Rules of herbal medicine around 2 hours after the use of chemical drugs (Source: Rumahdiabetes)

3. Beware of Herbal Mix BKO (Chemical Drugs) - Leaks Gastric because Jamu

Jamu is a traditional herb that is commonly found in Indonesia, which is used either as an addition / supplement daily as well as "medicine" for a variety of diseases. Especially for middle-class people down, herbal medicine is often the first choice to cope with health problems everyday.

Not all herbs in Indonesia entered into the list of Agency for Drugs and Food (POM). Herbal arms, for example, the construction is done directly by the vendor with the knowledge of herbal medicine for generations. However, there are many herbs that go into the list of POM and MOH and have official registration number.

Unfortunately, there are also herbs that are listed on the outer wrapper POM registration number and the MOH, but it turned out, after further explored-false. In fact, the community is difficult to check whether the number is the original POM or mere essay. This is dangerous because you never know what the materials contained in these herbs.

Compass edition of Thursday, December 14, 2006, reducing paper entitled "How to Wisely Choose Traditional Medicine". In it are discussed on the existence of 93 types of herbs that contain prescription drugs. Materials such hard drugs among fenilbutason, metampiron, CTM, piroksikam, dexamethasone, allupurinol, sildenafil citrate, sibutramin hydrochloride, and paracetamol.

Almost all of these ingredients can cause side effects directly on the protective layer of cells in the stomach (gastric mucosa), that is peptic ulcer (ulcer in the gastric mucosal wall). Peptic ulcer is the main cause of gastric leak (± 70 percent) than malignancy / cancer of the stomach (± 30 percent). Public in general know as peptic ulcer disease ulcer disease. Inadequate treatment will result in further complications of stomach bleeding, malignancy, and eventually leaking hull.

Common causes of peptic ulcer is the production of excess stomach acid, drugs, and Helicobacter pylori infection, acid resistant type of bacteria that have special properties can produce the enzyme urease that can change the acidity of the stomach into the atmosphere base. Thus, bacteria that can live and breed in the gastric mucosa.

Production of excess stomach acid caused by stress factors and smoking, whereas infection with H.pylori can dieradikasi certain medications so that the current byword changed from no acid, no ulcer (1910) became no H.pylori, no ulcer (1989).

The drugs most commonly cause peptic ulcer is a type of anti-inflammatory non-steroidal (eg, paracetamol, fenilbutason, metampiron), and classes of steroid medications (eg, prednisone, dexamethasone). All of the above the main cause of gastric leaks lately insidensinya rose sharply in the hospital, a hospital in Indonesia.

It's not drugs

Actual herbs included in the category of food supplements, not drugs, which are made from natural ingredients form part of the plant, such as roots, leaves, and bark. There is also the use of animal material, such as bile tangkur goat or alligator. The effect would not be directly felt by peminumnya. Because of its form of supplements, if any herbs that effect "cespleng", it should contain ingredients suspected drug specific chemical.

In this year, the incidence of patients with gastric leak (perforated ulcer) increased dramatically. In Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, cases of patients with gastric leak in 2005 some 26 people, in 2006 some 38 people, and from January 2007 through July (6 months) have increased to only 53 patients.

This incidence seems to be increasing. This is similar to studies in Immanuel Hospital, Bandung, in which case the year 2006 no more than 10 people, but in the last six months (January-July 2007) the case reached 40 people and tends to increase. The majority of cases were male (77 percent), in accordance with the incidence in the entire world population. Most are in the age range 50-70 years, with the youngest patient aged 22 years, and the oldest 80 years (average 60 years).

The interesting thing about the cases of gastric leak at the teaching hospital in Bandung that is all patients are herbs consumed higher chronic (chronic) due to rheumatic disease, headache, flu, and so on. Most people buy these herbs from herb shops and not from a trusted manufacturer.

Direct relationship between the consumption of herbs "dark" with the increasing cases of gastric leak very drastic indeed proved not clear. However, the results of anatomic pathology examination (examination of the tissues around the leaking of the stomach wall) shows no signs of H.pylori bacteria that is the cause of most stomach ulcers, mucosal wall, and the malignancy / tumors in the gastric mucosa of the patient.

This raises a hypothesis that other underlying issues, namely consumption of drugs that can irritate the stomach mucosa. One of them is herbs, which according POM mixed with chemical drugs hard.

Some symptoms

Patients with perforated gastric complaints generally come with sudden abdominal pain and felt great in the upper abdomen (solar plexus, similar to the symptoms of ulcer disease), pale face, cold sweat, shortness of breath, fever, and vomiting, especially in the hours The first hour after the leak occurred.

After several hours, the patient usually looks better, less pain, vomiting stopped, temperature and pulse normal, even people with insomnia. However, precisely the period of "intermediate" this is the best time for immediate action in the form of surgery so the patient must be diagnosed quickly and correctly.

In further period (more than 12 hours after gastric leakage occurs), the patient will deteriorate rapidly and began to enter into a state of peritonitis (severe inflammation of the abdominal cavity) and sepsis (infection great. Poisons / toxins the bacteria are spread throughout the body) due to contamination of the abdominal cavity by gastric acid and other stomach contents, in the form of food and digestive enzymes.

If the new patient information is handled in this period, or even longer, the prognosis (chance of happening in people) in these patients will become worse. Especially compounded with patient age generally have advanced, as well as diseases other elderly.

Handling patients who are diagnosed as a gastric perforation is a surgical treatment because of the leak should be sought and closed by the surgeon concerned. Generally, if the patient came in the early periods of illness, patients can complete recovery within 7-10 days.

However, research in the hospital at six months showed only 57 percent of patients with improvement or complete recovery, 22 percent died, the rest brought home forcefully by the family or anything else. In the case of patients who died, declined 89 percent due to surgery or a condition that is very heavy so no longer possible to do anesthesia. This shows that the level of patient awareness (awareness level) of our society is still very low for this case, especially if the doctor who first handled also less aware of this disease.

The best management for patients with gastric perforation is prevention. For, if the leak had occurred stomach, will spend a lot of handling health care costs to be borne by patients, families, hospitals, and the end is our country.

For that, need to be done further research about the direct relationship herbs consumption "dark" with the disease in people with gastric leakage.

(Source: Dr. A Pangayoman SpB Roys, Kompas)

Food — and why so many go hungry — on the table Panel discussion to focus on disparity between what the rich, poor have to eat

2009-10-10T15:16:00.000+07:00

By Stephanie Tavares (contact)
Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 | 2 a.m.

While tourists dive into Las Vegas’ endless buffets and the wealthy enjoy dining on grass-fed Kobe beef, more than 200,000 Las Vegans are struggling to feed themselves. About 141,000 children get government-subsidized school lunches, and 60,000 children have no stable daily source of food outside their schools.

So perhaps gluttonous Las Vegas — which at first seems the most unlikely place for a group of writers to debate agribusiness, global poverty and nutrition — may be a most appropriate place.

UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute and Three Square food bank will host a panel discussion and symposium next week to discuss food and hunger. The institute is bringing three authors from different corners of the food world to discuss how and where Americans get their food and to examine the disparity between the rich man’s food and the poor man’s and why the difference matters.

“For us to do something on different points of view about food — eating, hunger, Americans’ propensity for shoving calories down our throats — is as viable a subject as any we’ve done,” Institute Associate Director Richard Wiley said.

Three Square is using the institute’s panel event as an opportunity to examine how local nonprofit organizations and government agencies can better address the valley’s hunger problems. The food bank will host a symposium Monday among local hunger experts, aid agencies and at least one of the institute panelists to accurately characterize the extent of the problem and examine what to do about it.

“The symposium allows us to take what we’ve all done independently a step further, to gather all the local experts on food and hunger and poverty with global experts to figure out what we can do to close the gap on hunger,” Three Square President Julie Murray said.

The disparity in food quality and supply is key to any discussion of food and hunger, whether global or local. Yet few agree on how best to solve these problems.

The institute’s three panelists hold divergent views on what the world should be growing, distributing and consuming — including whether food should be grown and sold in local markets.

David Mas Masumoto

The author of “Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm,” about his efforts to grow and sell succulent heirloom peaches in California’s San Joaquin Valley, says buying local is not always realistic. The more important issue is who is making the food decisions — the consumer, the farmer, the distributor or the grocery store executive?

Masumoto contends that the consumer has lost more control over his food than he realizes. Produce, including much of the organic food purchased in high-end markets, is hybridized and managed to be easily and cheaply grown and harvested, look immaculate and generally taste like cardboard. Over time, our expectations have changed to the point where this is considered normal and acceptable.

Masumoto tried to change that, one peach at a time, embracing the premise that fruits and vegetables once tasted good, and still should.

It shouldn’t matter that Las Vegas can’t produce much local food, he said. “We all have our ‘foodsheds’ — the places our food comes from,” Masumoto said. “No major city has an agricultural base within its city limits that can support itself. Food has to come from someplace. So Las Vegas has its agricultural base — it may very well be scattered across the world — but I imagine much comes from the Central Valley of California. So in a way, my farm is connected with Las Vegas.”

He said the farmer’s voice is often left out of the food debate and he hopes to bring that perspective to the discussion at UNLV.

He wants people — from restaurateurs to home cooks — to be more aware of where their food is coming from. Most people can’t get their food from within 100 miles of home, but they should know where it is coming from. Every farmer, rancher and fisherman has a business philosophy that frames the choices he makes every day. The more consumers know about the farms that produce their food, the more enlightened they are about the food itself, Masumoto said.

A more sustainable model for future food production calls for preserving and wisely using agricultural land and making wise decisions on water allocation, he said.

“My hope is to rethink our relationships with food — and begin to develop a mental map of these relationships,” he said.

Raj Patel

The author of “Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle For The World Food System,” a book about global hunger and poverty, notes that food doesn’t necessarily end up where it is most needed. Because of the way the global agriculture industry is managed, part of the world is starving, another part has high blood pressure and the wealthiest sliver of world population has enough good, nutritious food at its fingertips to be healthy and fill landfills.

The hunger issue is about more than starving children in Africa, he said; there are children going without breakfast in Henderson and teens struggling with diabetes in North Las Vegas. Unless the valley’s homeless and hungry acquire a taste for nopalitos, mesquite flour and quagga mussels, there’s going to have to be a more global solution, according to Patel’s philosophy. And that solution isn’t necessarily buying expensive organic produce trucked in from Mexico.

Patel is an economist who worked for the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization before becoming an outspoken critic of those organizations’ practices and an advocate for the poor. He thinks change can come only through collective action.

“I’m skeptical that people will be able to change the world food situation simply by eating differently. The reason that people are hungry in Nevada today isn’t because people aren’t eating enough high-end olive oil,” Patel said. “It’s a political problem, and there are political actions — from starting a local food policy council to demanding a change in the U.S. Farm Bill.”

Alice Waters

The chef behind the famous Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., and the author of eight popular cookbooks, Waters is the most prominent — if not most controversial — panel speaker.

She founded Slow Food International, a nonprofit organization that stresses the importance of consuming local, seasonal and sustainably grown foods. She is one of the founders of the slow food and “locavore” movements that have swept the yuppie nation. She advocates not merely buying organic but, more important, buying fresh seasonal food from farmers and ranchers within 100 miles of home.

Her position: Many of the moral and quality problems surrounding food and hunger rest on the heads of corporate farmers and that at least some can be solved by people simply choosing their food more carefully. The mainstream agriculture industry believes this view is naive and unrealistic, that without the industrialization of agriculture, American farmers wouldn’t be able to feed our own population, let alone the world’s. And most of the world’s people have neither the money nor opportunity to buy only the best.

Waters was not available for an interview.

HERB

2009-09-24T10:10:00.000+07:00

A herb is a plant that is valued for flavor, scent, or other qualities.[1] Herbs are used in cooking, as medicines, and for spiritual purposes.

In American English the pronunciation of "herb" varies by individual, with the initial "h" either silent or pronounced (/ˈɝːb/ or /hˈɝːb/) on no noticeable regional or socioeconomic basis, but in British English the sounded "h" predominates: /ˈhɜːb/ (see American and British English pronunciation differences).

Uses

Herbs have a variety of uses including culinary, medicinal, or in some cases even spiritual usage. General usage differs between culinary herbs and medicinal herbs. In medicinal or spiritual use any of the parts of the plant might be considered "herbs", including leaves, roots, flowers, seeds, resin, root bark, inner bark (cambium), berries and sometimes the pericarp or other portions of the plant.

Culinary herbs

Culinary use of the term "herb" typically distinguishes between herbs, from the leafy green parts of a plant, and spices, from other parts of the plant, including seeds, berries, bark, root, fruit, and even occasionally dried leaves or roots. Culinary herbs are distinguished from vegetables in that, like spices, they are used in small amounts and provide flavor rather than substance to food.

Some culinary herbs are shrubs (such as rosemary, Rosmarinus officinalis), or trees (such as bay laurel, Laurus nobilis) – this contrasts with botanical herbs, which by definition cannot be woody plants. Some plants are used as both a spice and an herb, such as dill seed and dill weed or coriander seeds and coriander leaves.[edit]

Medicinal herbs

Plants contain phytochemicals that have effects on the body. Throughout history, from the Bible, Koran, Vedas and other old texts, the medicinal benefits of herbs are quoted.

There may be some effects when consumed in the small levels that typify culinary "spicing", and some herbs are toxic in larger quantities. For instance, some types of herbal extract, such as the extract of St. John's-wort (Hypericum perforatum) or of kava (Piper methysticum) can be used for medical purposes to relieve depression and stress. However, large amounts of these herbs may lead to poisoning, and should be used with caution. One herb-like substance, called Shilajit, may actually help lower blood glucose levels which is especially important for those suffering from diabetes. Herbs have long been used as the basis of traditional Chinese herbal medicine, with usage dating as far back as the first century CE.[2]

Some herbs are used not only for culinary and medicinal purposes, but also for recreational purposes; one such herb is cannabis.

Sacred herbs

Herbs are used in many religions – such as in Christianity (myrrh (Commiphora myrrha), ague root (Aletris farinosa) and frankincense (Boswellia spp)) and in the partially Christianized Anglo-Saxon pagan Nine Herbs Charm. In Hinduism a form of Basil called Tulsi is worshipped as a goddess for its medicinal value since the Vedic times. Many Hindus have a Tulsi plant in front of their houses.

The shamans in Siberia also used herbs for spiritual purposes. Drugs and plants have been used world wide to induce spiritual experiences.

Pest control

Herbs are also known amongst gardeners to be useful for pest control. Mint, Spearmint, Peppermint, and Pennyroyal are a few of such herbs. These herbs when planted around a house's foundation can help keep unwanted critters away such as flies, mice, ants, flees, moth and tick amongst others. They are not known to be harmful or dangerous to children or pets, or any of the house's fixtures [3].

Botanical herbs

In botanical usage a herb or herbaceous plant is any non-woody plant, regardless of its flavor, scent or other properties. A botanical herb cannot therefore be a woody plant such as a tree or shrub.

HabatusSauda

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Habbatussauda including family Ranunculaceae. Can grow in any climate, including types of plants and shrubs with a height up to 50 cm, branches, flowers bluish-white color. White seeds when young and turn black as metaformosis process. Sesame seeds shaped like a diameter of 1.5 mm oval. Tend bitter taste, which depends on the level of bitterness of the climate and soil type sits on. Type - type Habbatussaudah spread in Indonesia market are regrouped into 5 groups:

VARIOUS TYPES OF HABBAH Sauda

1 Baladi (Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen): The seed is more solid, more fat (rarely flattened), more black, feel better not too bitter. Grinding the seeds of this species is more difficult and the most concentrated color powder.

2 HABASYI (Ethiopia) Not all seeds are plump and some flat, almost the same color with type Baladi, taste more bitter and pengar.

3 SURRI (Syrian) from the heavier seeds than almost similar Habasyi Baladi, colors are brighter than Habasyi, pengar sense more than powder Habasyi and brown colors.

4 HINDI (Indian) seeds smaller, lighter and seemed more bland than the Surri and tend to be more spicy.

5 LOCAL (Indonesia) Seed is very small and very bitter taste

COMPOSITION & INGREDIENT

• Fatty Oil Content (constant oil)
• essential Oil Content (essential oil)
• Amino acids (alanine, arginine, isoliucine, lysine, glutamic acid, metionine, tryptophane, thyrosine, Threonine, asparagines, cystine, Glycine, praline)
• Protein
• Calcium ions (Ca2)
• Iron (Fe2 +)
• Sodium ion (Na +)
• Potassium (K +)
• Thymoquinone (TQ)
• Dithymoquinone (DTQ)
• Thymohidroquinone (THQ)
• thymol (THY)
• Fat
• Carbohydrates
• Zinc
• Phosphorus
• Magnesium
• Vitamin A, B1, B2
• Sodium
• Etc.

ACTIVE SUBSTANCES & benefits:

Active substance Habbatussaudah & Benefits

Alanine: antioxidant, cancer prevention
Arginine: Antihypertensives, diuretic (urination smooth), add the spermatozoon
Ascorbic acid: Antirematik, Antibiotics, Anti flu, cancer and Asthma Prevention
Asparagine: Antisickling / anti-nausea, anti-hypertension
Palmitic acid: Anti Bleeding
Acid Gutamat: Anti-seizure, anti-epilepsy
Linoleic acid: Anti-rheumatic, Anti-Eczema Skin, Anti-histamine, anti Meoragia, cancer prevention, anti Anafilatik, Anti-Atherosclerosis
Calcium: Anti Alergy, Anti Atherosclerosis, Anti Osteoporosis
Carvone: Anti septic, Preventing cancer, carminative
Copper: Helps the formation of the formation of blood cells in the spinal cord, increasing the formation of erythrocytes
Cysteine: Anti Hemosistinuria
D-limonene: Anti-Breast cancer, anti-tumor, cancer prevention
Fiber: Anti diabetes mellitus, Preventing Cancer, Heart amplifier, Fats laxative / anti-obesity, Karminativa, smooth bowel movements, anti-ulcer
Phytosterol: Normalizing Cholesterol, Colon Cancer Prevention, mammary & Prostate, Anti-Inflammation
Glycine: Anti Ulcer, Cancer Prevention
Hederagenin: Anti Allergic, vascular amplifier, Anti Inflammation, Anti-fungus, keeping blood viscosity
Iodine: Burning Fat, amplifier teeth, hair, skin, local antisepsis, improve mental and talk
Isoleucine: Anti Inflammation of the brain
Leucine: Anti Inflammation of the brain, the body Essential Substances
Lysine: Anti hepatitis, liver booster
Magnesium: Strengthening the heart muscle, changing the blood sugar into energy, bone and teeth formation, enzyme activity
Potassium: Anti-Depression, Anti-hypertensive, anti-intestinal spasms, anti-fatigue, maintain healthy hair and skin
Thymohydroquinone: Anti arthritic, anti asthmatic, anti-bacterial, anti-allergy, Anti-oxidants
Selenium: The main antioxidants, anti-lung cancer, co Lon, prostate, anti-dandruff, reduce the risk of breast cancer, helps remove toxic heavy metals from the body, improve concentration, maintain tissue elasticity, anti-dandruff
Sodium / Sodium: Increased blood pressure
Siren: Cancer Prevention
Stigmasterol: Anti Hipatotoksik, anti-inflammatory, anti-virus, ovulant, preventing cancer
Tannin: Antibiotics, anti-tumor, anti-diarrhea, Anti Virus, Anti oksidant
Threonine: Antibiotics
Tryptopan: Anti Piretik, anti-dementia, anti-Parkinson's, anti-migraine, anti-insomnia
Tytosine: Preventing Cancer, Anti-Parkinson
Vitamins A, B1, B2: Repair body cells, smoothen the skin, preventing lung cancer, metabolism of nerve cells, muscle, heart muscle, body growth, carbohydrate metabolism, antibody formation, cell erythrocytes, improve the immunity system
Iron Anti anemia, Anti menorrhagia
Zinc: Mampertahankan acid base balance of the body, helping assets of platelet cells, close the open wounds, anti-oxidant
Glucose: Anti Varicose veins, improve memory
Iron: Anti Anemia, normalize the menstrual cycle
Linoleic Acid: Anti-inflammation of bone joints, anti-eczema, anti-allergy, normalize the menstrual cycle, preventing cancer
Beta sitosterol: Anti-carcinogenic activity
Alpa spinasterol: Anti Inflammation
Ascorbic Acid: Anti-arthritis, anti-bacterial, anti-flu, anti-Maag, prevent cancer and asthma
Beta Sisterol: Anti bacterial, Anti-cancer, anti-tumor
Chromium: Managing blood sugar metabolism, Set of cells to insulin sensitivity, dissolve fat deposits
Cobatt: Stimulates production of red blood cells
Glutamic Acid: Anti Epilepsy
Methionine: Anti eczema, cancer prevention, anti-oxidants
Myristic Acid: Preventing cancer, bone joint lubricant
Nigellone: Anti Asthma, Anti Broncitis, Anti Allergic, Anti intestinal cramps
Oleic Acid: Anti-inflammation, prevent cancer
Phenylalanine: Anti Parkinson, Anti-depression

51 Types of active substances contained in the seeds of Black Seed has been found by experts in global health research and their research with all its remarkable benefits for various diseases and health problems. Most likely many more other active substances content in the seeds Black Seed that have not been revealed by experts. In the future will be revealed and further strengthen our faith that the Black Seed can cure diseases except As-Sam (death).

THE RESEARCH PROFESSOR, PHYSICIAN AND HEALTH EXPERTS

The Doctor, Professor and Health professionals acknowledge the extraordinary benefits of Black Seed after they do research. Study and research both empirically and clinically. Blessed is God for His Word. Among them are:
• Prof. Dr. Hildebert Wanger (Germany) in his research proves that Black Seed can heal the patient is allergic, Neoradermitis, Asthma and weak immune system.
• Prof. Dr. Bannasch Lutz (Germany) said that Black Seed oil has anti-tumor efficacy as no side effects as is common in chemotherapy and radiation.
• Dr. Kopok Stanley (USA), Black Seed has a very role as a tumor prevention and in the long run will improve and strengthen the body's immunity / immune system against disease.
• Dr. The Tajul Aris (malaysia), Black Seed contains more omega 10-fold compared with DHA and EPA.
• Professor Ad Dakhakny (1960) reported that Black Seed has the ability to relieve inflammation and is useful for arthritis.
• Dr. Al-Kadi and Kandil (pakistan) led a study of the use of Black Seed relation to increased immunity. Before and after, the object of research in limfositnya count the number of T-cells. This experiment lasted for 4 weeks. Seen that an increase in activity of T-cell production that is as much as 72%.
• Dr. Haq at the Department of Biology and research centers (Riyadh Saudi Arabia) show that Black Seed increase the ratio between T cells Negative becomes positive by 50% - 30%.
• Amala Research Center in Amala Nagar, India (1991) using the Black Seed as CANCER DRUG.
• Microbiological Unit of the Research Center, College of Pharmacy, King Landmirste, Riyadh Saudi Arabia (1997) in the study did find that the Black Seed effective ointment to suppress inflammation and does not cause allergies.

Black Seed
Black Seed
Function / Purpose Black Seed:
Enhance the immune system
Lowering cholesterol and blood sugar levels
Smooths and tightens skin
Discard toxins from the body
Adding vitality of sex
Improving breastfeeding
Eliminate allergic reactions such as itching
ASTHMA help cure diseases and bronchitis
Treating acne and eczema
Preventing kidney disorders and urinary tract
Slow the aging process of cells
Normalize blood tension
Strengthen the powers of concentration
Cure rheumatism and impotence
Treating Stomach disorders, Liver / Heart
Anti-Tumor, Anti Cancer, Anti Bacterial
Anti-virus and very good in consumption after therapy Hijamah / bruise and Ruqyah.

Reference : www.rumahherba.com

Rice Broken Skin (Brown Rice)

2009-09-16T14:21:00.001+07:00

Did you know that the process of grinding and polishing the rice until it becomes white rice has discarded 80% of vitamin B1, 70% of vitamin B3, 90% vitamin B6, 50% manganese (Mn), 50% phosphorus (P), 60% iron (Fe) , 100% fiber and essential fatty acids. And only white rice but it only contains carbohydrates, when it should be rice is food rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber and essential fatty acids.

Rice broke the skin (in English is called brown rice) only remove the outer layer (grain), so content-rich nutrients to the epidermis was still intact.

What is the function of the missing nutrients that?
A bowl of brown rice contains 90% of manganese (Mn) per day. Manganese lot to the body's metabolic processes, is a component of the enzyme superoxide dismutase (SOD) that protects the mitochondria against oxidative damage.

A bowl of brown rice contains 21% requirement Magnesium (Mg) per day. Mg function in the process of metabolism and with Calcium (Ca) to maintain bone health.

A bowl of brown rice contains 14% fiber needs per day. In a study of 74,091 women for 12 years proved that those who consume less fiber in the diet is more susceptible to obesity. Fiber also protects against constipation and colon cancer risk.

Brown rice contains Selenium (Se) is an essential mineral that functions in preventing the emergence of malignancy, metabolism, anti-oxidant, and functions increase stamina. Selenium is a component of glutathione peroxidase enzyme that plays an important role in the process of detoxification in the liver.

Fiber also slows absorption of carbohydrates into the blood so that blood sugar levels stabilize. Fiber-rich diet was also reduce the risk of gallstones.

Essential fatty acids in brown rice terkadung it can lower LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) to 7%. Plus fiber, vitamin2 Mg and B, then the brown rice also protect against cardiovascular disease.

Brown rice is also rich in phytonutrients which are anti-oxidants such as quercetin, curcumin, ellagic acid, catechins, and so on. More than 80% of the phytonutrients found in the epidermis, then grinding and polishing process has discarded most of the phytonutrients.

Consumption of food rich in fiber (biji2an, kacang2an, vegetables and buah2an) shown to decrease the prevalence of metabolic syndrome is characterized belly, low HDL cholesterol, hypertriglyceridemia, and hypertension.

Unfortunately epidermis in brown rice that make it easy to oxidize not last long (turn rancid).

Exhortation
To maintain the health needs always to run a healthy lifestyle is a healthy balanced diet, regular exercise, adequate rest and avoid pollution.

Once you know how rich content of nutrients in brown rice as well as its benefits, then I recommend to start eating brown rice, especially if you include the following criteria:

Being overweight (body mass index> 25)
Diabetes mellitus
People with metabolic syndrome (obesity, especially central obesity (belly), low HDL cholesterol, hypertriglyceridemia, and hypertension).
Elderly (risk of coronary heart disease, penyakit2 malignancy, gallstones)
Many exposed polutant (cigarette smoke, smoke motor, and so on)
Remember that preventing is better than cure.

Salam healthy,
Dr. David Fadjar Son, MS, SpGK
Clinical Nutrition Specialist
www.kliniknutrisi.com

Curcuma longa Linn

2009-09-16T14:15:00.000+07:00

Turmeric or turmeric (Curcuma longa Linn. Syn. Curcuma domestica Val.) Including one of spices and medicinal plants native from Southeast Asia region. These plants then have spread to areas of Indo-Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and even Africa. Almost everyone Indonesia and India as well as Asian nations generally have to consume this herb plants, either as a supplementary cooking, medicinal or to maintain health and beauty. Turmeric is a spice commonly used in cooking in Asian countries. Turmeric is often used in cooking curry kind, and is also used to give a yellow color to dishes. Pharmaceutical products made from raw turmeric, can compete with a variety of drug patents, for example, for inflammation of the joints (rheumatoid arthritis) or osteo-arthritis is made of active sodium deklofenak, piroksikam, and phenyl butason with a high price or food supplements (vitamin-plus) in capsule. Product so the material in the form of extract of turmeric dietary supplements in capsule form (Vitamin-plus) market and the industry has developed. Food supplements made from raw turmeric extract with additives Vitamin B1, B2, B6, B12, Vitamin E, Lecithin, Amprotab, Mg-stearic, Nepagin and Kolidon 90. Usage: root tubers are older than one year used as Ubat (root tubers are cooled, cleaned, particularly affecting the abdomen in the stomach, stimulating, releasing excess gas in the intestines, stop bleeding and prevent blood clotting) other than that is also used as an ingredient in cooking. Turmeric is also used as an anti-itch and anti-spasm and reduce the swelling of the mouth mucous membrane. Turmeric juice consumed in the form of so-called filtrate, is taken as an extract or used as a salve for mengubati bengkak.Kunyit also efficacious to cure a stuffy nose, how to burn the turmeric and inhale

Local Name:

Turmeric (UK), turmeric (Netherlands), Turmeric (Indonesia and Malaysia); Powder (Java), koneng (Sunda), Konyet (Madura);

Curable Disease:

kurkumin main content and essential oil, works for the treatment of hepatitis, antioxidants, digestive disorders, anti-microbial (broad spectrum), anti cholesterol, anti-HIV, anti-tumor (induced apostosis), inhibits growth of breast tumor cells (hormone dependent and independent), inhibits ploriferasi cells in colon tumors (dose-dependent), anti-invasion, anti-rheumatoid arthritis (arthritis), has a good prospect in the downstream industries sector (Fig. 5) in various forms (extracts, oil, starch, food / beverage, cosmetics, IKOT pharmaceutical products and / IOT). Diabetes mellitus, Typhoid, appendix, Dysentery, Hospital discharge; Menstruation is not smooth, stomach pains during menstruation, breastfeeding Streamlining; tonsils, Berak mucus, Morbili, Cangkrang (Waterproken)

Composition: CHEMICAL KANDUNGAN: Turmeric contains medicinal compounds, called kurkuminoid of kurkumin, desmetoksikumin and bisdesmetoksikurkumin and substances other benefits. Ingredients Substances: Kurkumin: R1 = R2 = OCH3 10% Demetoksikurkumin: R1 = OCH3, R2 = H 1 - 5% Bisdemetoksikurkumin: R1 = R2 = H rest Essential oils / volatile oil (sesquiterpen Ketones, turmeron, tumeon 60%, Zingiberen 25 %, felandren, sabinen, borneol and sineil) Fat 1 -3%, 3% carbs, 30% Protein, Starch 8%, 45-55% of Vitamin C, Mineral Salts (iron, phosphorus, and calcium) remaining.

Benefits of Fennel Plants "Foeniculum vulgare Mill"

2009-09-11T13:08:00.001+07:00

ennel
(Foeniculum vulgare Mill.)

Synonym:
= E officinale, All. = Anethum Foeniculum, Linn.

Family:
Apiaccae (Umbelliferae)

Description:

Fennel is one of the herbs sernbilan considered berrnukjizat in Anglo-Saxon. In Indonesia have been cultivated and sometimes as tanarnan spices or herbs. Turnbuhan can live from the plains to a height of 1800 m above sea level, but will grow better in the high plains. Originally from southern Europe and Asia, and because the benefits and widely planted in Indonesia, India, Argentina, Europe, and Japan. Herbaceous plant long-lived, high 50 cm - 2 m, merumpun grow. A family usually consists of 3 to 5 bar. Trunk bluish green, grooved, beruas, holes, smells fragrant when bruised. Location of the leaf turns, multiple pinnate, two with double fins narrow, needle shape, a pointed tip and base, the edge of the flat, white berseludang, seludang webbed with a hat-shaped top. Perbungaan structured as an umbrella flower compound with 6 to 40 pedicle, peduncle length of the mother from 5 to 1 0 em, long-term 'ang peduncle 2 to 5 mm, yellow crown, out of the end of the rod. Fruit oval, ribbed, long, 6 to 10 mm, width 3 - 4 mm, a young dark brown green after a bit of green or yellow to brown slightly brown completely. However, this fruit colors vary depending on country of origin. Ripe fruit has a distinctive aromatic smell, when tasted like it was relatively kamfer. Fennel and fennel oil yield, which is a distillation of basil and fennel pollen is ripe fruit and dried. There are two kinds of fennel oil, sweet and bitter. Both are used in the pharmaceutical industry. Fennel is also used for seasoning, or used as a repair material sense (corrigentia saporis) and scent medicine. Normally fennel is used in conjunction with pulosari bark. The leaves can be eaten as a vegetable. Propagation by seed or by separating the child plant.

Local Name:
Hades (Sunda), fennel, fennel londa, fennel Landi (Java),; Adhas (Madura), fennel (Bali), wala wunga (Sumba).; Das spicy (Aceh), fennel, fennel (wilt).; Adeh , manih (Minangkabau). paapang, paampas (Manado).; Popoas (Alfuru), denggu-denggu (Gorontalo),; Papaato (Buol), porotomo (Baree). kumpasi (Sangir Talaud).; Adasa, rempasu (Makasar), adase (Bugis).; Hsiao hui (China), Phong karee, mellet karee (Thailand),; Jintan Manis (Malaysia). barisaunf, madhurika (Ind. / Pak.).; Fennel, commaon fennel, sweet fennel, fenkel, spigel (I).;
Curable Disease:
Abdominal pain (heartburn), abdominal bloating, nausea, vomiting, breast milk slightly,; diarrhea, jaundice (jaundice), loss of appetite, coughing,; Shortness of breath (asthma), menstrual pain, menstrual not tertur, rheumatism goat,; hard sleep (insomnia), testicle descended (orchidoptosis), colic,; intestine down to the groin (inguinal hernia), gall stones,; Swelling sperm channels (epididymis),; Landfill fluid in the scrotal sac (hiodrokel testes),; Poisoning medicinal plants or fungi, improving vision;

Utilization:

PART USED:
Ripe fruit (Xiaohuixiang, hui-Hsiang). Ripe fruit that has been collected, then dried in the sun to dry.

PURPOSE:
Fruit useful to overcome:
- Abdominal pain (heartburn), abdominal bloating, feeling full in the stomach, nausea,
vomiting, diarrhea,
- Jaundice (jaundice), loss of appetite,
- Cough with phlegm, shortness of breath (asthma),
- Menstruation: menstrual pain, irregular menstruation,
- Breast milk (milk) some,
- White eggs in the urine (proteinuria),
- Difficulty sleeping (insomnia),
- Testicle descended (orchidoptosis),
- Intestine down to the groin (inguinal hernia),
- Swelling of the sperm channels (epididymis),
- Accumulation of fluid in the scrotal sac (hydrocele testis),
- Reduce the pain of the stone and help destroy it,
- Rheumatic gout, and
- Poisoning medicinal plants or fungi.

Leaf efficacious overcome:
- Cough,
- Flatulence, koilk,
- Thirst, and
- Improve vision.

HOW TO USE:
Fennel fruit as much as 3 to 9 g of boiled, drinking or finely ground fennel fruit, and is brewed with boiling water to drink while warm. Leaves eaten as a vegetable or boiled and then drunk.
External use, finely ground dried fruit and then used for local consumption at the canker sores, toothache, ear pain and injury.
Fennel oil can also be used to rub the child's body into the wind.

EXAMPLE OF USAGE:
1. Coughing
a. Prepare the fruit of fennel pollen as much as 5 g disedub with 1 / 2
cups boiling water. After chilling filtered, add 1 tablespoon
honey tea. Stir until evenly distributed, drink once. Perform 2 times
a day until healed.

b. Prepare the sage leaves 1 / 4 cell, hibiscus flowers 2
bud, leaf poko 1 / 5 handheld, flower bud tembelekan 10,
red onion 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon fennel, pulosari 1 finger, rhizome
1 finger ginger, brown sugar 3 fingers, washed and cut into pieces
necessary. Boiled with 3 clean water glass until remaining
half. After chilling filtered, then drunk. Do it 3 times
day, each 1 / 2 cup.

2. Shortness of breath
a. Take oil as much as 10 drops of fennel with 1 tablespoon brewed
eat hot water. Drink while warm. Do it 3 times a day,
until healed.

b. Prepare the fennel 1 / 2 teaspoon, ¼ pulosari fingers, rirnpang galingale 2
finger, 1 finger rirnpang ginger, black cumin teaspoon 114, leaves
poncosudo (Jasminum pubescens) 1 / 4 cell, brown sugar
3 fingers, washed and cut into pieces as needed. Baban, this material
then boiled with 4 1 / 2 cup water until the remaining approximately
half. After chilling filtered, and ready to drink.
3 times a day, each 3 / 4 cup.

3. Sprue
Prepare the fennel 3 / 4 teaspoon, coriander 3 / 4 teaspoon, leaves slobber
1 / 5 cell, sage leaves 1 / 4 cell, dragon scales, 1 / 5 cell,
Sembung leaves 1 / 4 handheld, Centella asiatica 1 / 4 handheld, leaves fart
1 / 6 cell, pulosari 3 / 4 fingers, fragrant rhizome lempuyang 1 / 2 finger,
½ finger turmeric rhizome, cinnamon ¾ finger, 3 finger brown sugar, washed
and cut into pieces as needed. The material was then boiled
with 4 1 / 2 cup water until the remaining half. After
cold filtered, ready to drink. 3 times a day, every time a
3 / 4 cup.

4. Menstrual irregularities
Prepare the leaves and flowers each Srigading masing.1 / 5 handheld,
black cumin 3 / 4 teaspoon fennel 1 / 2 teaspoon, pulosari 1 / 2 finger,
2 rivet crimson flower petals, 2 pieces of lime, sugar cube
for chicken eggs, washed and cut into pieces as needed.
The material was then braised with 3 clean water glass until
remaining 2 1 / 4 cup. After chilling filtered, minurn 3 times a day,
each 3 / 4 cup. Poisoning medicinal plants or fungi
Prepare the fruit of fennel pollen as much as 5 g, and brewed with
half a cup of wine. Drink while warm.

5. Gallstones
Fennel fruit powder as much as 5 g of brewed with 1 cup water
heat. Min

Composition:
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS pharmacological Fruit: ripe fruits contain aromatic smell, taste slightly sweet, spicy, warm, in the liver meridian, kidney, spleen, and stomach. Leaves: aromatic-smelling oil from the fruit of fennel oil (fennel oil). KANDUNGAN CHEMISTRY: Fennel oil contains ASIRI (Oleum Foeniculi) 1 - 6%, containing 50 - 60% anetol, approximately 20% fenkon, pinen, limonen, dipenten, felandren, metilchavikol, anisaldehid, anisat acid, 12% oil and fat. Ingredients that cause fennel anetol issued a unique aroma and efficacious carminative. Roots contain bergapten. Roots and seeds contain stigmasterin (serposterin). Pharmacological effects and Research Results: 1. Active components, anisaldehida, improving efficacy streptomycin for tuberculosis treatment in rats. 2. Increase peristaltic gastrointestinal tract and stimulate spending fart (flatus). 3. Eliminate cold and phlegm. 4. Fennel oil containing anetol, fenkon, chavicol, and merit anisaldehid gastrointestinal soothing and works like appetite stimulants. 5. From one study in adult humans, fennel diternukan that have the effect to destroy kidney stones. 6. In animal experiments, extracts from the stew of fennel leaves can lower blood pressure. However, other ways of processing do not show these properties.

Source: http://www. science and technology. net.id / eng / pd_tanobat / view.php? MNU = 2 & id = 106

Better alternative: Doctors at the Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital preparing a herbal remedy for A (H1N1)

2009-09-07T16:39:00.000+07:00

BEIJING: Chinese doctors say they have found a herbal remedy for preventing and treating the A(H1N1)
Influenza which is both more cost-effective and better resistant to the virus
than the drug Tamiflu.
Hospitals in Beijing have in the last month begun treating A(H1N1)-infected
patients with this herbal remedy instead of the World Health
Organisation-recommended Tamiflu, which is also being used to treat A(H1N1) in
India. Doctors in two Beijing hospitals told The Hindu the results have so far
been successful.
At Ditan hospital, where most of Beijing?s patients are being treated, doctors
have treated 117 out of 297 admitted patients with the herbal remedy, and 88 of
them have been cured. The others are undergoing treatment.
There have so far been 1,668 reported cases of A(H1N1) flu in China, though no
deaths have been reported. The government?s Ministry of Public Health has
expressed concern that as the winter flu season approaches, the chances of a
serious outbreak are high. With some concern about Tamiflu?s decreasing
resistance to the virus and fears regarding the drug?s side-effects, the
government appears to have given full-backing to promoting a herbal treatment.
Meanwhile, two Chinese pharmaceutical companies this week have begun two
month-long clinical trials for a vaccine to the infection.
In China, treatment and prevention of infections with herbal remedies as
opposed to drugs ? the practice is known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
? is common, and the cost-effectiveness of herbal cures has seen a popular
resurgence in TCM in recent years.
TCM, mainly known overseas for its acupuncture therapies, is regarded as
mainstream medicine in China, but not in the West.
The government has now sanctioned hospitals to launch TCM-based treatments for
A(H1N1) on a large scale, Tu Zhitao, dean of the research and education
department at the Beijing Administration of TCM told The Hindu. ?We have found
that Tamiflu is not sufficient, and it also weakens the body and has adverse
affects on body tolerance,? said Mr. Tu.
?This treatment is a better alternative, and we have begun to promote this
treatment among the public.?
Essential difference
Mr. Tu said the essential difference was that while the TCM remedy works to
build up the body?s resistance in a holistic way, the Tamiflu drug focuses on
attacking the infection.
The herbal treatment is a mixture of four locally-used medicinal herbs: Jin yin
hua (lonicera japonica), Da qing ye (Isatis indigodica), Bo he (Mentha
haplocalyx) and Sheng gan cao (Glycyrrhiza glabra). Doctors in Beijing first
began using the remedy on May 15, treating patients with a combination of the
herbal remedy and Tamiflu.
After successful trials, doctors have since June 15 begun prescribing only the
herbal treatment. Ninety per cent of all A(H1N1) flu patients in China have
been treated with a combination of the two treatments. Wang Yuguang, head of
the Centre of Integrated Chinese and Western medicine at Ditan Hospital, said
the treatment time for the herbal remedy was comparable with that of Tamiflu
treatments. The big difference, he said, was the cost of the two treatments.
The TCM remedy only costs between 10 and 13 Yuan (between Rs. 70 and Rs. 91)
per day, while Tamiflu costs 56 Yuan (Rs. 392).
Mr. Wang said the herbal treatment was now undergoing clinical trials ?to show
concrete evidence that the treatment is scientific.?
He said the government had invested 10 million Yuan (Rs. 7 crore) in conducting
a comparative study of herbal and Tamiflu treatments.
Mao Yue, president of the Ditan Hospital, said there was a ?serious
possibility? of a large-scale outbreak of the flu in the autumn and winter of
this year, and that the government has already begun procuring enough herbs to
treat a possible 2 million patients.
Breath-Ezy mengandungi ramuan berikut;
Ramuan Herba :
Perilla Frutescens
Semen Sinapis Alba
Radix Pinella Ternata
Cinnamoni Ramulus
Cinnamomum Cassia
Zingiberis Rz
Glycyrrhiza Rx
Menurut konsultan Awalmart, ramuan Glycyrrhiza ini ialah satu ramuan berfungsi
seperti berikut;
Applications:
* It has anti-inflammatory effects.
* It antitussive and expectorant effect
Function of the herb:
* It is used to invigorate functions of the heart and spleen for the treatment
of symptoms due to deficiency of vital energy of these viscera.
* Induce antimicrobial activity
* Improves cell functions of liver, lungs and heart
* Promote immunology
Kemudian, anda mungkin teruja membaca fakta berikut;
Clinical research by western scientists has shown that isoflavans from
Glycyrrhiza glabra were able to protect liver and respiratory mitochondria
against oxidative stress and therefore the herb benefits the lung and liver.
14953
Clinical research by western scientists have shown that glabridin from
Glycyrrhiza glabra has antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and cardiovascular
protective activities. 77107
This was part of the report sent by Dr. Minh-Tri Nguyen to Dr. Gueunaesl
Rodier, Director, Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response
(CSR), WHO Headquarter ?Viruses are chemical particles having the ability to
replicate only inside a living cell. Each virus particle or viron consist of a
core of a single nucleic acid DNA or RNA surrounding by a protein coat and some
cases by carbohydrates or lipids. Since viruses have no cellular organization,
they have not cellular organism, have no nucleus, no cytoplasm and no
surrounding membrane, they are not alive but rather obligate parasites at
genetic level (require a host cell in order to replicate). That is why
antibiotics (anti=against, bio life) cannot kill coronaryviruses and
consequently there is no possible vaccine for colds, influenza or SARS.
Coronaryvirus (virus from Latin = poison) can be only counter-acted or
neutralized by specific antidote herbs, which are highly suitable for human
body.? In the report to WHO he sighted that Radix Glycyrrhizae can be used for
detoxification: neutralizes the poison produce by viruses and bacteria by
action of Glycyrrhizic acid C42 H62 O16

Natural Food Colours

2009-09-02T08:14:00.002+07:00

Anthocyanins

Anthocyanins are water soluble pigments responsible for the attractive red, purple and blue colours of many flowers, fruits and vegetables. They are sensitive to pH change, being reddest in strongly acidic conditions and become more blue as the pH rises. Used in drinks, jams and sugar confectionery.

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Beetroot

The colour of beetroot is water soluble and has limited stability when exposed to light, heat and oxygen. It is particularly suited to frozen, dried and short shelf-life products, such as ice creams and yoghurt.

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Cochineal

The water soluble pigment carminic acid (carmine) is derived from the female cochineal insect. Introduced into Europe via the Aztecs it has the advantage of being stable when exposed to heat, light and oxygen. Uses include alcoholic beverages and processed meat products.

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Chlorophyll

Chlorophyll is the most widely distributed natural plant pigment, present in all green leafy vegetables. It is a green, oil soluble colour. Chlorophyllins are water soluble and relatively stable when exposed to heat and light. Uses include sugar confectionery and dairy products.

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Carotenoids

Over 400 different carotenoids have been identified in red/orange/yellow fruits, vegetables and plants. Nature produces carotenoids at the rate of 1000 million tons per year. Most are oil soluble, heat stable and are not affected by pH change. The uses of carotenoids include margarine, dairy products and soft drinks.

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Curcumin

Turmeric is a well known spice, used widely in cookery. Its pigment, curcumin, is oil soluble and tends to fade in light, but has good heat stability. It gives a lemon yellow shade in food systems. Its applications include curry, soups and confectionery.

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Riboflavin

Riboflavin, Vitamin B2, is used for fortification and colouring. It is water soluble, heat stable and is used in dairy products, cereals and dessert mixes

Carbon and metals

Vegetable carbon black is a heat and light insoluble pigment, used primarily in sugar confectionery. Metals, such as gold, silver and aluminium are used for surface colouring, mainly in confectionary.

For more information on natural colours : http://www.natcol.org

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GOING ORGANIC

2009-08-28T16:39:00.000+07:00

Black chefs will be dishing out health and nutrition advice during a 40-day bike tour around the state
BY STARLA VAUGHNS CHERIN FLORIDA COURIER
F our Black chefs are taking being organic on the road to

Left to right: Roosevelt Desir, Chad Cherry, Kirk Nelson and Andre Walker own Be Organic catering company based in South Florida.Left to right: Roosevelt Desir, Chad Cherry, Kirk Nelson and Andre Walker own Be Organic catering company based in South Florida. persuade everyday

people, especially youth, to add a little organic to their diets for life saving benefits.

Andre Walker, Roosevelt Desir, Chad Cherry and Kirk Nelson are the owners and chefs of Be Organic LLC, a catering company based in South Florida. They will kick off their first Organic Takeover Bike Tour, “Peddling for Better Health,” on Sept 2. The bike tour will travel 1,600 miles (40 miles a day) in 40 days.

What started out as a vacation for Nelson blossomed into a traveling cooking show for the chefs.

“I was trying to leave work alone and get away for awhile,” Nelson told the Florida Courier. “When I told the guys about the idea, each one in turn said ‘I want to go.’ So now we’re biking and cooking for people to raise awareness about healthy yet tasty organic cooking alternatives.”

Be Organic serves chicken grown without added hormones. During their bike tour, the chefs will teach Floridians how to make better food choices.Be Organic serves chicken grown without added hormones. During their bike tour, the chefs will teach Floridians how to make better food choices. Stops to include schools, churches

With stops planned at schools, churches, firehouses, colleges and farmers markets, the chefs will provide information on adding organic to diets, discuss fitness, preventive herbal remedies and green collar jobs all while whipping up dishes that satisfy the pallet.

Hoping to dispel the myth that organic foods are tasteless, expensive and a chore to find, Cherry says few people are aware of what organic really is. “Its just food the way God intended it with no added hormones, preservatives and no chemical pesticides.

“There are no genetic modifications or growth hormones. The chickens and cows get to go outside and have a rest cycle as opposed to chickens, living with the lights on 24 hours a day to deliver in 21 days instead of the normal three to six months it takes from being a chick to being on your plate. They have no access to outdoors – they just keep feeding them and pumping them with hormones,” he explained.

Thechefs were hired to cook for the Obamas while they were campaigning for the presidency last year.Thechefs were hired to cook for the Obamas while they were campaigning for the presidency last year. From brink of diabetes, cancer

Cherry and Desir know firsthand how important diet is to maintain good health.

Cherry has come from the brink of dialysis from type 2 diabetes to being nearly insulin free. “I’ve gone from 60 units of insulin twice a day to 15 units once a day through diet and exercise,” he told the Florida Courier.

Desir was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis, he tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). While in the hospital, he further learned he had Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer, and was given two months to live. His treatment was interrupted when his insurance stopped paying although he continued to pay nearly $200 a month in premiums.

Organic food helps maintain good health

Desir took it to the media, which found that 20,000 other people were being treated the same way. Insurance started paying again and he received the treatment needed. Now in remission with stem cell transplants, Desir credits organic food with helping him maintain his health. After his hospital stay, he was introduced to Cherry.

“My life was on a thread,” Desir said. “Today the best way I can describe it is I feel like a newborn. The stem cells are producing new cells. I have more energy and if I get a scratch, I notice my body heals faster.

“You have to be conscious of what you’re eating and buying in the store. Turn and look at the label. If you can’t read what it means, it’s not good for you. It took cancer to open my eyes. If I weren’t diagnosed, I would have continued to eat like I did. That is why we feel we have to let people know,” he continued.

Cooked for Obamas

Raising awareness for their bike tour hasn’t been as easy as the chefs thought, especially when they were so well-received at a recent South Beach Food and Wine Festival, cooking for the Obamas while they were campaigning last year, and being featured in various news stories since their inception a few years ago.

Once the bike tour was conceptualized they ramped up their workouts and got LA Fitness to be their first sponsor. During the tour, they will be most in need of the food products, trucks to carry the equipment and donations to defray the costs of maintaining their offices and expenses while on tour. They also will incur additional costs such as gas, room and board and for publicizing their efforts.

When turned down by sponsors, Cherry wonders if they are aware of the potential in African American markets. “From day one they ask the question, who do you work for, where are your partners? Four young Black guys doing this – people don’t think it’s real.”

More sponsors needed

Although Whole Foods features the chefs in-house monthly, they declined to sponsor the tour. The chefs have a corporate account with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, which they use multiple times a month, but aren’t able to confirm them as a sponsor.

“We are struggling against stereotypes. We have to ask ourselves. If we weren’t Black and doing this geared to another community not an urban market would we have funding issues? They think African Americans aren’t interested and don’t want it, but they are so wrong. It just shows how much you don’t understand this market or don’t care about understanding this market. It’s more than frustrating,” Cherry added.

In addition to LA Fitness, confirmed partners and sponsors include the 100 Black Men, Costco in Aventura, the global green chamber of commerce EcoChamber, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, and health conscious businesses Wholelistic Network and Lifemax (Mila).

Herbal tea helps bring 2 together

The bike tour has turned into a mission for the chefs, who seemed to come together through fate to start their catering company. Walker, who grew up in his family’s restaurant business, said his innate feel for the land and growing things led him to Be Organic.

Cherry and Nelson were independently selling herbal teas for the same company when they met. They combined forces, increasing their sales territory to 300 stores in one month. They also discovered that both of their best friends were cousins.

“We had this car and the windows wouldn’t let down – only the sunroof worked. In the sweltering South Florida sun, we had to stick our heads out the sunroof of get air,” Nelson said about promoting their herbal tea business. “Chad would drop me off at one location and go to another – that way we covered more ground. Be Organic grew out of those times, but we really had no idea how well it would be received.

For more information, call Chad Cherry at 561-305-1376, email Beorganic4@gmail or log onto the chefs blog site at www. organictakeover.tumblr.com.

Source : www.flcourier.com

The Rodent Tuber ‘Slivers’ Cervical Cancer

2009-08-26T16:47:00.003+07:00

First had leukorrhoea, then cervical cancer within the next 2 years. That was what Suheni, a 40 years old teacher, had experienced. In the middle of August 2006, A doctor of dr Sardjito hospital, Yogyakarta, diagnosed her of being suffered from cervical cancer at stadium II B. In order to docile the malignant cells that assault uterus, Suheni had had 6 times chemoteraphy and 25 times radiation. However, 10 months afterwards the cancer cell was back in rage.

Based on the advice of a relative, she finally tried rodent tuber extract in form of capsules. Suheni consumes 2 capsules 3 times in a day. In addition, she also took pearl grass. Her perseverence is unfruitless as she was declared of fully recovered after consuming rodent tuber and pearl grass for 4 months. In Wahyu Suprapto's, a lecturer of the Medical Faculty, Airlangga University, opinion, the anticancer characteristic of rodent tuber is due to its ability to block the development of cancer and tumor cells. (Ari Chaidir/Reporter: Faiz Yajri)

Source : www.trubus-online.com

Controlling Diabetes with Jamaican Cherry and Bitter Gourd

2009-08-24T09:31:00.003+07:00

Jamaican cheery leaves are apparently potent to control diabetes mellitus. That is a research result of Dr Ahmad Ridwan and Rakhmi Ramdani on School of Life Sciences and Technology, Bandung Institute of Technology. It is due to flavonoid compound that has antioxidant properties contained within. The antioxidant impedes the damage of cells in langerhans' island in the pancreas where insulin and glucagon which function to regulate carbohydrate metabolism as well as to control the level of blood sugar are produced.

Use Jamaican cheery leaves, not too old nor too young; the 5 leaves from the tip to be precisely. Decoct 50 - 100 g of Jamaican cherry leaves in 1 liter of water. Bring it to boil and only a half left. Drink the decoction twice in a day. In case using dried leaf extract, infuse 2 - 5 g of the extract in 200 ml of water. Within 15 days consuming Jamaican cherry leaf decoction, blood sugar level goes down 35 - 48%.

Such antidiabetc effect of Jamaican cherry leaves works the same as bitter gourd's Momordica canrantia. A research conducted by Herawati of School of Pharmacy, Bandung Institute of Technology has confirmed that the ethanol extract of bitter gourd of dose 2 g per kg of body weight is able to decrease blood sugar level. (Ari Chaidir/Peliput: Sardi Duryatmo & Faiz Yajri)

Source : www.trubus-online.com

Why Organic Food Is Good For You ?

2009-08-23T13:01:00.002+07:00

Studies show that on average organic food contains more vitamins and minerals than non-organic. This is because plants grow in a naturally nutrient-rich soil.

Non-organic chemical farming methods can speed up growth rates which can change the structure of a plant - resulting in the plant containing more water. Is that a good thing? No because it means the plant will contain less nutrients. In other words when you buy organic produce you get more carrot for your carrot.

Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) are an essential part of a healthy diet. This is because our bodies can not produce them. On the whole, medical experts tell us, we aren’t getting enough. EFAs help us get the most out of the food we eat and are important in preventing heart disease and brain disorders including depression. Organic meat and milk have been shown to have higher levels of essential fatty acids. This is because organic animals eat a natural grass-based diet as opposed to non organic animals that can eat a lot of processed feeds to help them put on weight.
On average organic plants contain between 10 – 15% more phenolics than non organic. Phenolics are important defence compounds. It is believed by some experts that these are helpful in preventing diseases such as cancer.

Over 86% of us say we don’t want pesticides on our food. Yet Government tests repeatedly show that up to a third of non-organic food contains pesticides.
Even food that we think is healthy, such as non-organic Cox's apples, can be sprayed 16 times. There are real concerns about the links with pesticides and cancers, decreasing male fertility, foetal abnormalities and chronic fatigue syndrome to name but a few. Organic farmers predominantly use natural methods to control pests, weeds and disease. So buying organic is one way to reduce the chances that your food contains pesticides.

When lots of animals are kept in cramped, stressful conditions they can become ill quickly. To prevent this non-organic farmers can put antibiotics routinely in their feed. However there are worries that these low level but constant doses may end up making them ineffective when they are used to treat actual diseases in both humans and animals. Organic farmers can only use antibiotics when an animal falls ill. They take many steps to prevent this from happening – such as keeping smaller flocks and herds, giving them a natural diet and ensuring they can free range. Under organic standards, the withdrawal period (time lapse between animal having antibiotics and the meat or milk going on sale) is double or in some cases triple that of non organic standards. This is to ensure that there is no risk of residues.

These days it seems you need to have a chemistry degree to understand some food labels. Some E numbers and other additives have been found damage health. Want to avoid them? Organic standards have banned them.
Genetically modified ingredients are also banned under organic standards. There is mounting evidence to suggest that there are many health problems resulting from this random science. Eating organic food is the only way you can be sure that your food or drink doesn’t contain these ingredients.

In a nutshell, organic food contains more of the essentials and none of the nasties. As Hippocrates said "Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food."
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Diposkan oleh Jogjakarta Organic Club

Benefits of organic food debated

2009-08-21T15:18:00.000+07:00

Josh Dulaney, Staff Writer
Posted: 08/19/2009 05:59:18 PM PDT

An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but it might also land one in the middle of a verbal food fight between opponents from both sides of the organic produce aisle.

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine reported in a study funded by the United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency and published last month that organic food is no more nutritious or healthy than non-organic food.

"Our review indicates that there is currently no evidence to support the selection of organically over conventionally produced foods on the basis of nutritional superiority," said Alan Dangour, of the school's Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit.

The researchers culled information from 55 "quality" studies over a 50 year period ending Feb. 29, 2008, and found that in 10 of 13 nutrient categories, there were no significant differences between conventionally and organically produced foods.

Naturally, organizations that tout organic food downplayed the study.

The Organic Center based in Foster, R.I., released a statement saying studies published before 1980 were flawed, and that its own, similar study using reports since 1980 found that "nutrient levels in organic food averaged 25 percent higher than in conventional food."

Jei Roberts of the Inland Empire Organic Produce Buying Club - a non-profit group that picks up organic food from wholesalers and local growers to distribute among its members - said proponents
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choose organic foods for a variety of reasons, not just nutrition.

"You have nutrition, taste, pesticide residue (issues) and impact on the environment," Roberts said. "There really isn't that much of a taste difference, but as far as the environment, some things organic are definitely better for the environment."

Tom Reingrover, who owns Gerrards Market in Redlands, said it's the pesticides that drive his customers to buy organic, despite the extra cost.

"If you can consume pesticides versus not, most people would say 'I don't want (the pesticides),'" he said. "Now there's an upside in cost."

Sales of organic food in the United States hit roughly $23 billion in 2008, up 15.8 percent from 2007, according to the Greenfield, Mass.-based Organic Trade Association, a membership-based business association for the organic industry in North America.

Christine Bushway, the association's executive director, said buying organic promotes healthy soil, combats climate change, protects farmers from exposure to harmful chemicals and "benefits the health of our planet in general, and ultimately, those who live on that planet."

But at least one researcher says organic food advocates are like tobacco lobbyists, in that they champion scant evidence for their claims while ignoring decades of proof to the contrary.

"This debate is kind of pathetic because we've been having it for decades," said Alex A. Avery, director of research for the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington, D.C. "They don't like the answer they've been getting."

Avery said organic farming wastes land and water because organic crops get a lower yield on an acre-to-acre basis.

Organic activists engaged in an ideological battle are sabotaging the technological advances that are allowing farmers to be more efficient, while at the same time misleading the public about the effects of pesticides, Avery said.

He compared pesticide residue on crops to that of uranium traces found in cement.

"Does concrete kill you like a nuclear bomb?" he asked. "No. There's a reason why we use pesticides. Because mother nature isn't the tooth fairy. She's a (bad person) who wants to take stuff from us."

josh.dulaney@inlandnewspapers.com

Kaempferia galanga L ( Kencur )

2009-08-21T09:17:00.003+07:00

Kencur (Kaempferia galanga L.) is one type of empon-empon / medicinal plants classified in the tribe-finding meeting (Zingiberaceae). Rimpang or rizoma this plant contain the oil and the alkaloid that atsiri as Stimulation. Another name is cekur (Malaysia) and the pro hom (Thailand). In the international literature (English language) often occur in the chaos as kencur Lesser galangal (Alpinia officinarum) and zedoary (wild ginger and white), which is actually a different species and is not a substitute for seasoning.

Kencur is a small meeting that grows in the fertile lowland areas or mountainous land, and not loose too much water. Number of leaf blade kencur no more than 2-3 pieces dealing with the order. Half interest in which to sit with the crown of flowers between 4 to 12 fruit, flower berwara crimson lips with the color white more dominant.

This plant grows well in the rainy season. Kencur can be planted in a pot or in the garden is enough sunlight, not too wet and in the open.

Chemical composition rimpang:

* Starch (4.14%),
* Minerals (13.73%),
* Atsiri oil (0.02%), in the form :
o sineol,
o metil kanil acid and Pentadekaan,
o sinamat acid,
o ethyl ester,
o borneol,
o kamphene,
o paraeumarin,
o anisat acid,
o alkaloid and
o Gom.

Kencur (name of language and the Java language) is known in various places with a name that is different: cikur (Sundanese), ceuko (Acehnese); kencor (Madura), cekuh (language Bali), kencur, sukung (Manado Malay ), asauli, sauleh, soul, umpa (languages in Maluku), and cekir (Sumba).

Various recipes and traditional Indonesian herbal medicine use as kencur components. Kencur used the property as a tonic increase appetite, so often given to children. Jamu kencur rice is very popular as a refreshment drink, too.

source: wikipedia.org

Tips for Organic Farming

2009-08-20T10:59:00.000+07:00

By: Morgan Hamilton

I got a book on organic farming, figuring that if I grew my own food, it would help things along for me. My feeling was that I would use up some of my increasingly abundant free time, save some money on food, and perhaps best of all, began eating more healthy diet. Once more, it would give me a sense of pride. Having something to do keep your mind sound and your spirits from sinking.

I actually have been consuming organic farming for for quite some time, but never really gave it much thought. I guess that I still don't in some ways. I was doing it in such a small scale that I had no idea how huge in industry organic farming really had become. The large corporate farming interests have to find ways to grow huge fields of the same crop, and they can afford expensive measures to control pests without using any unnatural pesticides. I was again a little different in this respect in that I did not have the expertise or resources to fight the little varmints, so I had to get clever so that my organic farming would not be compromised.

The first thing I had to deal with or slug. Did you realize that peer works great for getting rid of slugs? They are attracted to the liquid itself but are then ironically drowned in it. What you might not realize until you try organic farming, is that there are always more slugs out to ravage your crops. You wouldn't believe how much of the pain in the butt these little fellas are. But I found that they weren't even the worst of it. Little bunny rabbits or a huge threat to my organic farming venture. You see, unlike my neighbors,

I never have sprayed my lawn, so I have always had a family of cute little bunnies living in my yard. But there are two things bunnies are known for, and the lesser known one is equally impressive. You wouldn't believe the voracious appetites on these little guys and gals. As for carrots, it's not fictionFeature Articles, they really do love them. Organic farming is wonderful but you had better be prepared to roll up your sleeves and put in the work.