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Mahkota Dewa a special fruit
Introduction
Herbal medicine has been practiced and become parts of our culture since ancient history and still continue until today. We can ignore the portions of herbal medicine, since most of well known drugs come from herbal, such as morphine as powerful analgesic, curcuma as hepatoprotector, Artemisin and Quinine as anti-malaria, and so on.
WHO recognized the prospect of herbal as options for treatment of human disease. They manage the herbal medicine into more scientific so that can be used wisely.
Usually herbal components such as fruits, root, leaf, etc. not only contain one component like modern drugs, so that give more effects than modern drugs, that is also a problem for herbal medicine, since we can't predict the side-effects or dose-relationship. But, with the technology of extraction, scientists can recognized the active component more specifically for the specific of the disease.
Here, i wanna discuss about a fruit, a special fruit maybe. Just like this phrase "apple a day, keep the doctor away."
What is the fruit? Mahkota Dewa or the God Crown (Phaleria Macrocarpa)
Mahkota Dewa
Since ancient civilization, human faces with many kind of disease, and human with their knowledge to find the cure for the disease by several ways. One of them is from empirical practice of herbal medicine.
Mahkota Dewa or the God Crown ((Phaleria Macrocarpa) is a fruit that has been believed from traditional Indonesian culture can cure several disease. This plant lives in Papua (an Island north of Australia). This plant is a typically tropical plant about 1,5-5 meters height.
I'm not gonna discuss about the specification of the plant, but about its benefits for our health. Since ancient times, mahkota dewa is being used to cure several disease such as gout arthritis, allergy, and jaundice. But with recent technology, we can extract or find the active components from the fruits.
There are several diseases that mahkota dewa can be used in the treatment: 1. Cancer, there are lot of rumours that mahkota dewa can be used in treatment of cancer, And from the research, there is an component of mahkota dewa that can kill the cancer cell, but there is a need to do more research about that.
2. Eczema or allergy reaction, mahkota dewa fruit can be used in treatment of mild or moderate allergic reaction, because its contains polifenol at sufficient amount that can minimized the allergic reaction.
3. Diabetis Melitus, mahkota dewa fruit is believed can lowered the blood glucose level, so it can be used along with modern drugs.
4. Hypertension, mahkota dewa fruit can be used in therapy of prehypertension and mild-hypertension, because it contains flavonoids that can improve the circulation, lowers the cholesterol level.
5. Gout Arthritis, flavonoids component also can be used as anti-inflammatory agents for arthritis such gout and osteoarthritis thus relieving the pain.
Active Components
- Alkaloid, for detoxification.
- Saponin:
o Improve our immunity
o Lowers the blood glucose
o Prevent the thrombosis or abnormal clotting formation
Flavonoid
o Lowers the cholesterol and improve the lipid profile
o as anti-inflammatory agent
o as anti-oxidant, may help to slow down the aging process.
- Polifenol
o as antihistamin
As we see from above, mahkota dewa can be used in treatment of several disease. But the questions are: is there any safety amount, can be consume daily?
Well, i'll try to answer that herbal medicine always promote themself, as treatment without any adverse reactions since its come from the nature. But i think that's not really true, But from the components of the mahkota, actually there is no problem related to dose, but i think i would be better if consuming 1 up to 2 fruits a day. Or maybe you can buy a product that contain the mahkota dewa extract and consume it with the recommendations from the brochure.
At the end of my article, i would like to say. There is no modalities of treatment is superior from others but they are complementing each other.
Herbal medicine has been practiced and become parts of our culture since ancient history and still continue until today. We can ignore the portions of herbal medicine, since most of well known drugs come from herbal, such as morphine as powerful analgesic, curcuma as hepatoprotector, Artemisin and Quinine as anti-malaria, and so on.
WHO recognized the prospect of herbal as options for treatment of human disease. They manage the herbal medicine into more scientific so that can be used wisely.
Usually herbal components such as fruits, root, leaf, etc. not only contain one component like modern drugs, so that give more effects than modern drugs, that is also a problem for herbal medicine, since we can't predict the side-effects or dose-relationship. But, with the technology of extraction, scientists can recognized the active component more specifically for the specific of the disease.
Here, i wanna discuss about a fruit, a special fruit maybe. Just like this phrase "apple a day, keep the doctor away."
What is the fruit? Mahkota Dewa or the God Crown (Phaleria Macrocarpa)
Mahkota Dewa
Since ancient civilization, human faces with many kind of disease, and human with their knowledge to find the cure for the disease by several ways. One of them is from empirical practice of herbal medicine.
Mahkota Dewa or the God Crown ((Phaleria Macrocarpa) is a fruit that has been believed from traditional Indonesian culture can cure several disease. This plant lives in Papua (an Island north of Australia). This plant is a typically tropical plant about 1,5-5 meters height.
There are several diseases that mahkota dewa can be used in the treatment: 1. Cancer, there are lot of rumours that mahkota dewa can be used in treatment of cancer, And from the research, there is an component of mahkota dewa that can kill the cancer cell, but there is a need to do more research about that.
2. Eczema or allergy reaction, mahkota dewa fruit can be used in treatment of mild or moderate allergic reaction, because its contains polifenol at sufficient amount that can minimized the allergic reaction.
3. Diabetis Melitus, mahkota dewa fruit is believed can lowered the blood glucose level, so it can be used along with modern drugs.
4. Hypertension, mahkota dewa fruit can be used in therapy of prehypertension and mild-hypertension, because it contains flavonoids that can improve the circulation, lowers the cholesterol level.
5. Gout Arthritis, flavonoids component also can be used as anti-inflammatory agents for arthritis such gout and osteoarthritis thus relieving the pain.
Active Components
- Alkaloid, for detoxification.
- Saponin:
o Improve our immunity
o Lowers the blood glucose
o Prevent the thrombosis or abnormal clotting formation
Flavonoid
o Lowers the cholesterol and improve the lipid profile
o as anti-inflammatory agent
o as anti-oxidant, may help to slow down the aging process.
- Polifenol
o as antihistamin
As we see from above, mahkota dewa can be used in treatment of several disease. But the questions are: is there any safety amount, can be consume daily?
Well, i'll try to answer that herbal medicine always promote themself, as treatment without any adverse reactions since its come from the nature. But i think that's not really true, But from the components of the mahkota, actually there is no problem related to dose, but i think i would be better if consuming 1 up to 2 fruits a day. Or maybe you can buy a product that contain the mahkota dewa extract and consume it with the recommendations from the brochure.
At the end of my article, i would like to say. There is no modalities of treatment is superior from others but they are complementing each other.
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