Medicinal Plants Antanan Creating Longevity

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In traditional Chinese medicine, medicinal plants antanan occupies the top spot, in addition to lingzhi mushrooms or ginseng, for its ability to treat many diseases. In fact, an herbalist (nutritious plant expert) China, Li Yun-Ching, can be up to 256 years old and stay in shape for every day eating leaf and stem crude antanan. Chinese community believe, contain a chemical compound useful in antanan leaf, equivalent to a lingzhi fungus and ginseng root.

Antanan (Centella asiatica) has quietly become the main innate those who travel to mainland China in various forms, ranging from powder to the already packed so pills and capsules.
Antanan medicinal plants that are reportedly efficacious powerful body of work to restore the system, lowering cholesterol and blood sugar, stabilizing the body's hormones work, so they can make a person live longer because of health and fitness awake.

Antanan a chronic herbaceous plant, grows wild in moist soil, such as the dike, ditch banks, or cliffs soil. Trunked creeping, producing many branches, and forming clumps.

Once these medicinal plants are found in-vinegar salad with keratan vegetables and other tubers. Now, although in limited numbers, can still be found for the fresh vegetable in house dining a la Sunda. Farmers also often eat them as a friend to lunch in the fields because antanan including a popular type of fresh vegetable and efficacious to maintain health. Penyantapnya so rare seasonal disease, such as flu, fever, and even coughing.

In the book "Indonesian medicinal plants" arrangement Hembing Wijayakusuma (1992), antanan, Centella asiatica, "ji xue cao" contain medicinal compounds, such as asiaticoside (triterpenoids), karotenoids, madasiatika acid, mesoinositol, as well as a line of mineral salts useful. No wonder this plant is used in many regions of Asia and Africa to ward off the disease of leprosy, measles, hepatitis, fever, bronhitis, tonsillitis, heavy metal poisoning, vomiting blood, hemorrhoids, intestinal worms, as well as appetite enhancer.

In traditional Chinese medicine, antanan occupies the top spot, in addition to lingzhi mushrooms or ginseng, for its ability to treat many diseases. In fact, an herbalist (nutritious plant expert) China, Li Yun-Ching, can be up to 256 years old and stay in shape for every day eating leaf and stem crude antanan. Chinese community believe, contain a chemical compound useful in antanan leaf, equivalent to a lingzhi fungus and ginseng root.

In the book "Drugs native to Indonesia" Dr. Seno Sastroamijoyo composition (1962), described that antanan has the highest efficacy of medicinal plants. Serves to strengthen the stomach and increase appetite, wound medicine, cough and flu, upset stomach and intestinal worms, cleans the blood, even blood-urinary medicine and ulceration due to syphilis.

Source:
H Unus Suriawiria senior lecturer of biotechnology and agro-industry observer ITB
source: http://www.kompas.com/kompas-cetak/0204/30/iptek/anta10.htm