Ant Lair, A Unique Traditional Medicine from South East Asia

Ant Lair

In South East Asia, ant lair can became very unique traditional medicine. Perhaps its sound weird at first, but the benefit of this medicine has been proved not only by experience but also by scientific methods.

Not all of ant lair can be consumed and worthy for medical purpose. There only two from five genus of ant from family rubiceae that usually consumed by Asians. These two genuses called Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia.

There are 45 species of Hydnophytum has been used by south East Asian people for traditional medic. In Java Island, the species Hydnophytum formicarum, or in local language called urek-urek polo, often used to cure headache and swelling. In Philippine this species known as banghai, often used to deal with liver and digestion problems. Thailand people called it Hua Roi Ru, and use it to cure much disease such as worm infestation, bones, lungs, skins, and diabetes

The second genus, Myrcmecodia, has two common species used as medicine; Myrmecodia tuberose and Myrmecodia pendans. Myrmecodia tuberose is commonly used by people in Papua Island, and often found in Jayapura Jungle


These ant lairs uniqueness is because contains amazing substances which are:

1. Flavanoid: Work as antioxidants to prevent free radical. Protect the structure of cells and increase the effectiveness of vitamin C, anti-inflammatory, and prevent bone damage. Flavonoid also acts as antibiotics to disturb function of microorganism such as bacteria and virus, including HIV and Herpes.
2. Tanin: functionate to precipitate excessive protein in body. Useful to cure diarrhea or hemorrhoid
3. Polifenol: to stabilize blood sugar levels and to deal with microbe
4. Tokoferol: very powerful antioxidant which can prevent free radical up to 50%
5. Magnesium: important mineral to cure disease related to bones, livers, musculars, and others. The magnesium in ant lair is the one who help to deal with heart disease, migraine, improve kidneys and prostate function, and to increase stamina and sexuality.



Hydnophytum Formicarum

6. Other mineral: iron, phosphor, natrium, and zinc

How to Use:
200 gram of ant lair boiled in 3 liter of water, then filtered to eliminate the dregs. The color will be like tea.
The dregs can be boiled again until 3 times.
Drink the water three or four times a day (150cc)

Eating Raw Garlic and Its Benefits To Health

Garlic (allimum sativum) commonly known as a spice for cooking purpose. With a history of human use of over 7,000 years, garlic is native to central Asia, and has long been a principal ingredient in the Mediterranean region, as well as a common seasoning in Asia, Africa, and Europe. It was known to Ancient Egyptians, and has been used for culinary and medical purposes.

Garlic is easy to grow mild climates. Almost all of the garlic is cultivated by planting individual cloves in the ground. In cold climates, cloves are planted in the fall, about six weeks before the soil freezes, and harvested in late spring.

This ingredient had high effect on taste of a food. But, garlic has also another use for health purpose, especially when they are raw eaten. These are the use of garlic:

1. Garlic contains antioxidants that can help prevent cancer. If you are a heavy smoker, you can chew raw garlic to protect the body and prevent cancer.
2. Garlic contains anti-inflammatory. So if you have a fever, or a sore throat, just chew some garlic and your throat will soon be fit.
3. Garlic is also a good anti-bacterial. Mix the chopped garlic raw in salads if you had gastrointestinal infection, and your digestion will be better.
4. Antioxidants in garlic can also expel toxins from the body. The benefit is not only for health but also slow the aging.
5. If you are suffering arthritis, crushed raw garlic then compress on the knee or in any pain in the bone. Garlic will relieve the pain.
6. Poison such as mercury or arsenic can also be relieved by eating raw garlic. However, this only works only as first aid. Get immediate intensive care from a doctor for further treatment.
7. Chewing red garlic can help strengthen the blood circulation and open up blocked blood vessels.
8. If you had diabetes, garlic can control the amount of sugar in the blood.

Because it’s sharp aroma, you should your teeth after chewing the garlic. Of course you don’t want to disturbed another person by your bad breath, do you?

Herbal Treatment to Obesity

Having big and fat belly is not only bad for our looks, but also for health. Obesity can cause cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, etc.  
To deal with it, many people choose instant ways using drugs and medicine with its many risk; increasing blood pressure, sleeping disorder, more heartbeat rate, liver damage, headache, kidney’s damage, shock, etc.  
Anyway, I thinks its always better to try natural method such this below:
 

1. Eat slowly. Chew food on your mouth until its really soft.
2. Eat less meat, add more vegetables and fruit. Food with extra fiber is good for digestion.
3. Average amount of carbohydrate is good, do not eat to many of it.
4. Eat less salt. Avoid soft drinks. Fruit juice is recomended for its function as detox
5. For maximum metabolism, drink at least 8 glass/day of water
6. Exercise always the best, even just a simple sport like jogging and sit up.
7. Go to bed after dinner always bad for digestion.

Kaemferia Galanga

There’s also some herbal recipe to deal with obesity, you may use aromatic ginger (kaempferia galanga), riceflour, tamarind (Tamarindus indica), brown sugar, white sugar, and salt. Mix and masrh all the ingridients, then put a glass of water. Drink ½ glass every day, and see the result.

Curing Acne with Herbs

There are some traditional medicine recipe to cure acne by using few kind of herbs. Here are some of them:

Papaya Leaves

Papaya’s Leaves 

• Take 2-3 old papaya leaves, the dry it under the sun
• Mash the papaya leaves with water, then squeeze it to get the juice
• Rub the juice to the acne. Or you can use it to wash your face

 

Radish (Raphanus Sativus)

Radish

• Wash the Radish, then grate it to take the water
• Put little apple vinegar then mix it.
• Rub to the acne, then let it dry
• Clean it with water after dry

Tomato (lycopersicum esculentum)

tomato

• For daily treatment, cut tomato into two pieces, and then rub into face.
• After dry, wash it by using warm water
• Repeat it every day before sleeping
• For heavy treatment, mashed two fresh potatoes until becoming porridge
• Rub the porridge to the acne and let it dry
• Wash it with warm water

Key Lime (citrus aurantifolia)

Keylime

• Cut key lime into two part
• Rub the key lime on the acne, It gonna be little smarting, but its okay.
• Let it dry, and then wash it using warm water.
• Repeat it every day, before sleeping is the best time to do it.

Acnes and Why It Comes

Acne is sometimes really disturbing. Even though it’s not dangerous, but this little red spot in our cheek often reduce our confidence.

Acne itself is a condition when the pores are clogged and causing pus or ichors. The numbers of acne patients are were extremely large. Kligmann, an acne expert, said that there’s nobody in this world who trough their life time without acne in their skin.

There are various causes of acne; some of causes are from outside of our body, but some from inside. Those causes are:

Excessive oil skin

Some acne appears because of excessive production of oil gland (sebaecus gland). This oil causes blockage of hair follicles and skin pores. And then this oil pile in skin called sebum collaborating with bacteria and causing acne.

Dead skin cells

Dead skin cells sometimes mixed with excessive oil glands and dust or dirt, then becoming a thick and sticky blend which causes clogging of pores.
 

Bacteria

The bacteria called p.acne normally lives in the skin, and grow on clogged sebaceous gland. The bacteria caused irritation around the gland which continues to enlarge and then break and causing inflammation around the skin.

Cosmetic

Sometimes the clogging of pores is caused by cosmetic using which contain oil materials. Powder or cosmetic foundation can also responsible for the clogging.

Drugs/medicine

Consumption of corticosteroid medicine by oral or topical can reduce the body immunity. This medicine also potentially increase acne because the increase of patogen bacteria.

Stress

Actually, stress is not directly cause the acne, but there are certain hormones appear when somebody is stressed which can cause the acne.

Cellular phone

Your cellular phone is one of the dirtiest places in the world because it’s using frequency. When you put your cell phone around your cheek, then the bacteria will move to your skin.

How to prevent acne

In general, these are a few steps to prevent the acne:

1. Clean your face with clean water. Use mineral water if it necessary
2. Do not break the acne by yourself, avoid touching it.
3. Avoid using cosmetic while sleeping
4. Clean your face before sleeping
5. Drink enough water.
6. Stay relaxes; do not let the stress to control the mind.
7. Eat more fruits and vegetables
8. Avoid sugary and iodized food, coffee, and carbonized drink
9. Enough exercise will also helpful.

What Is Traditional Medicine?

Traditional medicine is a kind of medicine which the ingredients were made from plants, animal, mineral, or combination of all. Those ingredients are processed traditionally, and have been used for generations to be used as medical purpose. The most popular form of traditional medicine is using herbs or medicinal plants.

Today, traditional medicine is becoming more popular because its availability and affordable price. Moreover, according to several researches, the side effect of traditional medicine is not as much as chemical medicine. Some of them even didn’t have any effect as long as it’s used appropriately.


So, which one is better, the traditional medicine or chemical medicine? The answer is depends on the circumstances. Most of traditional medicine has slow response. On emergency case such as bleeding, maybe it’s better to use chemical medicine for its faster reaction in dealing with the symptoms and to reduce pain. Chemical medicine also better to be applied in handling case of acute illnes such as cancer or tumor. For its emergency, conventional treatmet such as surgery is more effective.

In this condition, traditional medicine cannot be used solely but have to be accompanied by chemical or modern medicine. The herbs medicines can be useful for reducing the side effect of chemical medicine.

Why the reaction of this two medicine is different? It’s because of the different mechanism of these two medicines. Chemical medicine works by eliminating the symptoms and reduce pain, but not cure the source. Chemical drugs only fix some part of body system. In the other side, herbal medicine work directly to fix the whole body system by improving body’s cell, tissues and damaged organs, and to boost the immune system of the body.


But some medicine is not fixing directly to the cause. For example, chamberbitter or phyllanthus urinaria has side effect just like antibiotics. Chamberbitter is not directly kill the bacteria but activate the glands that produce T-Cells which is a natural killer of germs. That is why herbal medicine like chamberbitter needs longer time to cure the disease.

Chamberbitter

Mangosteen Skin Juice to Cure Tumor

Many people say that tumor is as same as cancer, but actually both of them are different. Cancer is condition of uncontrollable cell growth, and tumor is condition when the cell growth is abnormal and creating lesions. In many cases, tumor can cause bump in some of body part. Tumor can be divided into two kinds; the malignant and the tame.

There are some potential factor can cause tumor, which is:

• Active smoker and drug user. The nicotine in smoke and addictive substance in drugs can destroy human immunity.
• Too much alcohol consumption
• Sun radiation can cause skin tumor
• Unhealthy live style
• Obesity
• Genetic inheritance

Its not easy to cure tumor, especially the malignant tumor, even if using modern medicine tools. But there is a traditional recipe to cure tumor using mangosteen skin.

Nature has provide us with many kind of plants, animal, and other resources that can be uses as medical purpose. One of the natural medicine is mangosteen skin.

Mangosteen or garcinia mangostana contain antioxidant and anti-cancer which can deal with malignant disease such as tumor. Mangosteen skin contain more xanthone than other kind of fruit. Mangosteen skin also contain tanin which can slow down the growth of cancer and tumor cells. Consuming mangosteen skin juice regularly help to avoid tumor. For you who already has the disease, the substance such as xantone and tanin may hel to slow down and destroy the tumor cell in the body.

Its not too difficult to make the mangosteen skin juice, these are the few step:

1. Prepare 3-5 mangosteen fruit
2. Peel the mangosteen skin, scrape the red coloured part of the skin. The black part is not used so you can throw it away.
3. Blend the red coloured part of mangosteen skin, you can also add honey or another ingridients
4. Drink the mangosteen juice after meal

   

   Mangosteen skin juice