Herbal for Breast Cancer, Cure It with Tapak Dara (Catharanthus roseus)

Causal factor of breast cancer still unclear until now. According to Walter H. Lewis on Medical Botany, there are some factors that playing role on breast cancer growth: hormonal breakdown (especially estrogen on woman), seriously injured, post birthing treatment failure, fibrocystic tumor infection, and virus trouble on mammary gland.

Preventing and Treatments to breast cancer trough tumor lifting, chemotherapy or radiotherapy are restrained. Not long, cancer will show up again. It not surprise if patients then trying to alternative treatment using herbal therapy. The last way is really helping patients and push some etnobotany and pharmacology research.

Research started in 1938, using COLCHIUM AUTUMNALE that contain of alkaloid colchicines as object. But etnobotany study done in some places, Tapak Dara (Catharanthus roseus), showed good result. For example, Eli Lilly, Svoboda, Noble, and Beer from one of Western University laboratory, Ontario, that has done test for several times with positive result. From it research, Tapak Dara plant can be used as cancer cell demolisher.

According to that Canadian analyst, some alkaloid compound from Tapak dara (Catharanthus roseus), extract can reduce white corpuscle/phabocy – especially inside protoplasm (granule) . That extract also pressed spinal cord/bone marrow activity of leukemia patient.

Tapak Dara, why its good to demolish breast cancer

According to in vitro observation, active compound influence of Tapak Dara (Catharanthus roseus), to against white corpuscle/phabocy is an extraordinary thing. That compound are also good to block growth of tumor circulation system. By tecnologi development, tapak Dara(Catharanthus roseus), has significant role on vinblastine and vincristine product commercialization, as an anti-cancer chemotherapy compound.

Tapak Dara (Catharanthus roseus) belonging to Apocynaceae family. In Medicinal and Poisonous Plants I reported by H. Sutarno and Radjiman (1999), beside vinblastine and vincristine, Tapak Dara also contain of alkaloid derivative like vindesine and vinorelbine. That two first compound are antimitotics compound that its activity depend to gland and nerve by block spiral cell to multiple. This both cells experience normal cell nucleus splitting that multiply becoming a cancer cells. By inducsion process, that cancer cell multiply and spread to the system around it, as a bump (metaphase). So it good to be used to cure breast cancer too.

Vinblastine used as a leukemia medical material. Vincristine as an medical material for acute leukemia, bubonic, bronchial cancer, nephroblastomas, intraductal carcinoma, and rhabdomysarcoma.

Vindesine is a semi synthetic compound derived from vinblastine used in acute lymphatic leukemia treatment, especially on child. Also used in lymphomas treatment that usually difficult to be recovered. Used by patient with skin pigment tumor (melanomas).

Vinorelbine (noranhydrovinblastine) produced by anhydrovinblastine as a medicine to block glad and nerve splitting.

Reported, total alkaloid contents in Tapak Dara leaf about 0.70 – 0.82%. to get 50 mg of
Vincristine and 2 g of vinblastine, it need 1 ton of dried leaves. While in whole of tapak Dara plant contains 0.2 – 1%.

Some several main compounds can be used to cure other diseases, like leurisine and vindoline that used as insulin substitute, because these reduce hypoglycemia on diabetic patient. Ajmalicine is a medical material of blood stream stimulant to brain and whole body system.

Materials

22 Tapak Dara leaves
1 Fennel (Feoniculum vulgare)
Wood skin of pulasari plant (Alyxia reinwardti)

How to make it

Wash finely whole materials, then boil them with 3 glasses of water. Add palm sugar as much as needed, let it until boiled, and the water left over a half. After it cool off, filter it and drink it tree times a day (morning, noon, and at night) each a haft of glass.

Evenly, patient will recover after consumed this ingredient for a month.

Fennel and pulasari are herbs that are contains of anethol and kumarin compound. Both alkaloid compounds be used to improve taste and as a scented substance in medicine, jamu, spice, toothpaste industry etc. while kumarin compound has benefit as mouth sores medicine, gastric strengthener and gastric cramped (K. Heyne, 1987)

In chemotherapy, the usage of vinblastine medicine has impact in white corpuscle/phabocy reduction (leucoenia) with various grades and will be normal in 1 – 2 weeks after medicine usage has stopped. Effect to red cell and platelet is very small. There for in normal body condition, you must be careful with some dosages. The side effect of vinblastine poisonous is corpuscle/phabocy reduction (leucoenia) that being produced by backbone marrow.

If nerve is being poisoned, you must restrict in vincristine medicine usage. But after using vindesine medicine, nerve poisoning and marrow pressure are not harder then if you use both vincristine and vinblastine medicines. If that four medicines being used, will effect to blood coagulant forces reduction (thrombocytopaenia) and baldness (alopecia). It is better if you consult it with your doctor before.

Comersial product of vinblastine and vincristine in medical trade, popular with name vincaleukoblastine sulfate (vinblastine sulfate, VBL, Velban) and leurocristine sulfate (vincristine sulfate, VCR, Oncovin).

Breast cancer can infect to both woman or man. But don't worry, tapak dara will be its natural solution.

Jamu Tuntas, a Herbal for smoothen the Menstrual Cycle Calendar

If you often get an irregular menstrual cyle problem, here is a alternative herbal ingredient that can help you helping you adjust your menstrual cycle calendar problem.

Materials:
2 fingers of turmeric rhizome (Curcuma domestica Val.)
1/2 fingers of cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmani Bl.)
105 cloves (Eugenia aromatica O.K/Syzygium aromaticum L.)
8 cardamoms (Amomum cardamomum Wild.)
a tip of tea spoon of fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.)
1/4 pineapple (Ananas comusus merr.)

Benefit:
Adjust and Smoothen the menstrual cycle.

How to use:
peel and rasp pineapple get it juice. Peel and grind turmeric, add water gradually during you grinding, and then press it.
In the mean time, fennels, cloves cardamoms and cinnamon with 1 glass of water until it left a half. Mix pineapple juice and turmeric extract into that ingredient. Mix and filter them. Drink this ingredient 3 days after menstruation until menstrual cycle is finished, twice a day, by the morning and afternoon.

Here is a relevant topic you can read about Herbal for menstrual cycle calendar behind schedule.

Herbal for Back hair Treatment (Jamu menghitamkan Rambut)

Here is practical Herbal Tip for black hair only. It will help you to have a shining beautiful dark hair.

Materials:
A handful of ripe papaya pit (Carica papaya L.)

Benefit:
Papaya pit contents of glucoside cacirin and karpain that have benefit to blacken hair.

How to make:
Fry papaya pit dryly, without oil or grease. And make powder by grind them finely. Press and filter them. Give a little water, apply to your hair and do a massage. Let it until dried up. And then shampoo your hair.

Anti Acne Herbal Skin Care (Jamu bebas jerawat)

The Chinese believe that acne is caused by toxicity and heat in the blood stream. Some view acne as a digestive problem where the poisons from poor digestion are discharged into the skin.

There are several anti-acne herbal ingredients that can help impede or even cure acne. And here is one of them:

Materials:
2 lenglengan plant (leaf, batang, root) (Leucas lavandulifolia Smith/Leucas zeylanica R. Br.)
a finger turmeric rhizome (Curcuma domestica Val.)
a finger Wild Ginger rhizome (Curcuma xanthorrhiza Roxb.)
1/2 hand full of sambiloto leaf (Andrographis paniculata Ness)

Benefits:
are very useful to help liver function by neutralize toxic inside blood, also has benefit as anti-inflammation.

How to make:
Peel turmeric and Wild Ginger. Wash cleanly all materials. Boil them with 3 drinking glasses of water. After it boiled, turn down the fire and boil it until the water left over one half. Refine and add a few of sugar palm tree or honey.
Drink this ingredient twice a day.

The other herbal that can be used as acne alternative treatments are honey, tea tree oil, citrus fruits, and lemon.

Honey has benefit to revitalize the skin. It may be applied directly to the skin by putting uncooked honey onto ones face and leaving it on the skin for five to ten minutes.

While tea tree oil can be used to impede bacteria from growing on the skin. You can also apply to the skin like honey.

Exfoliants may be used to treat acne and pimples.

citrus fruits contains of lactic acid and glycolic acid that are alpha-hydroxyl. These acids will lessen dead skin cells from building up. You can make a lemon juice, mixed with water and applied to the face. The juice should be allowed to dry on the skin for up to ten minutes and then is should be rinsed off. If one has sensitive skin, to keep away from inflammation effect more water may be required to the blend.

To make it work efectively, stay away from garlic, coffee, or spicy foods, because that foods may cause heat to build up in the body. Daily bowl movements are important so a high fiber diet should be adhered to.

Success depends highly on the individual and the degree of acne they are suffering from. So consult it with your doctor before try it.

Good by acne.
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