Monday, June 8, 2009

Ant Nest as Medicine

Ant nest is nest of ant, ant often found create the nest use of dried leaf or using wet leaf, but we just see the nest when the leaf have dry. Ant nest say one of the plants epifit from dydnophytinae (Rubaceae), which can symbiosis with the ant and called as epifit because the plants are patch on other plants but not parasitic living so only as a place to stick to.

The nest as gynecology, common ant nest use as medicinal plant by rural communities in the western part of Wamena, Papua, Indonesia. The Tribes in Bogodini and Tolikara usually utilize this plant as rheumatic cure and uric acid cure.

Ant nest contains flavonoid and tanin. Flavonoid function as anti oxidant, that can prevent cancer attacks as well as cancer medicine. Mechanisms of flavonoid in the cancer by making carcinogen off, resistor cell cycle induction and apoptosis. In addition, also contain tokoferol. Tokoferol like E vitamin, that causes anti oxidant effect effective.

Look in the chemicals contains, the ant nest, according to research can overcome almost of all various kinds of cancer. Simmilarly ant nest can be used to treat heart diseases and heart puncture. Ant nest property in the heart of the womb ant nest rich of minerals. Ant nest contains 0.37 g calcium, 68.58 mg sodium and contains of potassium 3.61 g per 100 g.

On the body metabolism, calcium and sodium role working to improve the heart and nerve impulse, while the role of potassium manage heart rhytm. If the leakage is caused infection by bacteria, the substance role is flavonoid.

In many cases, flavonoid role as antibiotic directly by disturbed the function of microorganisms such as bacteria or viruses. Flavonoid compound contains in powder or water extract of ant nest.

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