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Plants by scientific name Brassica oleracea L. This became one of the popular vegetables. Plural known, cabbage is used as the main ingredient vegetable soup. Characteristic of the crop of cabbage leaves has. Crop leaf is a leaf folds that make cabbage round or flat.

Ingredients:
- Water
- Protein
- Fat
- Carbohydrates
- Fibers
- Calcium
- Phosphorus
- Iron
- Sodium
- Potassium
- Vitamins (A, C, E, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinamide)
- Glutamine
- Amino acids

Benefits:
Based on the empirical society, cabbage is believed to overcome:
- Constipation
- Acute inflammation
- Accelerate the healing of peptic ulcers (Cabbage juice)
- Lower cholesterol
- Increase breast milk production.

Noni (Morinda citrifolia, Linn.) Including the coffee-type copy. Noni can both cultures developed in the lowlands and highlands. Noni fruit it tastes good but is also beneficial for health.

Ingredients:
- Morindin
- Damnacanthal
- Methyl acetyl
- Kapril acid
- Sorandiyiol
- Xeronine
- Proxeronine

Benefits:
Research shows, Noni able to heal some penyekit, among others:
- Heart disease
- Indigestion
- Diabetes
- Stroke
- Cancer.

(Lagerstromia - speciosa) is known as a shade tree. The plant has purple flowers. These plants are relatively easy to grow in different types of soil. Besides being a good shade plants, these plants useful for natural medicines.

Ingredients:
Leaf
- Plantisul – substances such as insulin
Such plant-based insulin

- Saponins (leaves and bark)
Secondary metabolites which are common in nature.

- Flavonoida
A group of the largest phenol compounds found in nature. These compounds are red pigments, purple, and blue. And as the yellow pigment found in plants.

- Polyphenols
Group of chemicals found in plants. Its main usefulness is as a natural antioxidant.

Benefits:
- Leaf efficacious overcome ulcers
- Overcoming diabetes
- Anti-diarrhea
- Diuretics

These plants are often found  on side streets as conditioning plants. The plant has a distinctive fruit, the fruit rises to the top. Mahogany fruit can be used for various treatments.

Ingredients:
- Saponin
Saponins have a function:
1. boost the immune system
2. prevent blood clotting
3. strengthen heart function

- Flavonoida
Flavonoida has several functions:
1. useful to smooth the blood
2. reduce the accumulation of fat
3. function as antioxidants

Benefits:
- Reduce hypertension
- Help fight diabetes
- Increase appetite

(Impatiens balsamina Linn) grown in a relatively wet soil. One characteristic of this plant are white flowers, red, purple or pink. Flowers are very popular types of bees to produce honey.

Ingredients:
- Anthocyanins
The main function of anthocyanins is to provide color for most flowers and fruits. These colors can help attract animals to pollinate flowers and animals.

- Cyanidin
natural organic compounds. Function as antioxidants

- Delphinidin
delphinidin give blue color of the flower. One of its chemical functions as an antioxidant.

- Pelargonidin

- Malvidin

- Kaempherol

- Quercetin
Studies have shown quercetin has anti-inflammatory function and antioxidant

Benefits:
- Popular pain when menstruating
- Relieve rheumatism
- Or accelerate the ulcer breaks

High blood pressure and increased blood cholesterol levels was not only dangerous for the heart. Two indications of this can also threaten the health of your eyes.

As reported a study, these two conditions can trigger the risk of someone experiencing eye disorder called occlusion or blockage of the retinal veins. This condition can lead to blindness caused by one or more veins carrying blood from the eye to the heart is blocked or congested fluids.

Research conducted in Ireland that indicates a person who suffered from high blood 3.5-fold risk of experiencing these occlusive clots than those with normal blood pressure. Meanwhile, people who have high cholesterol are at increased risk were recorded up to 2.5-fold.

This finding is the result of a review of 21 previous studies involving a total of 2916 patients with retinal vein occlusion and 28,646 people who do not have it. The results of the analysis also indicates, 63.6 percent of patients with occlusion of the retina are also potential problems with blood. Whereas those who did not have eye problems, the percentage is 36.2 percent. High cholesterol levels reach twice the percentage (35 percent) in people with occlusion than patients who did not experience it (16.7 percent).

Meanwhile, if the disease is associated with diabetes, those with asperger occlusion percentage is slightly larger than those that do not have diabetes of 14.6 versus 11.1 percent.

Dementia or memory decline was related to blood cholesterol levels. Research indicates that experts, low levels of good cholesterol or high density lipoproteins (HDL) in blood can make you prone to dementia and Alzheimer’s.

In the two types, known medically as cholesterol, the HDL that protects your heart from damage and bad cholesterol or low density lipoproteins (LDL) that increase the risk of suffering from heart problems. In practice, HDL also acts suppress LDL by sending it from the cells and blood vessels to the liver or liver.

In a study, experts found that low HDL levels associated with increased risk of memory decline. This influence came when, specifically in the blood levels of HDL cholesterol decreased in the age between 55 to 60 years in which this will increase the likelihood of having dementia up to 61 percent. Read the rest of this entry »

To lower cholesterol, which sometimes rise was not always have to take medicine the doctor prescribed. By simply doing a combination of supplementation and healthy lifestyle, it can be overcome cholesterol effectively, even as good as cholesterol-lowering drugs.

A recent study in the U.S. recently showed, Chinese red rice diet plus fish oil supplementation balanced counseling program, exercise, and relaxation were able to reduce levels of bad cholesterol (low density lipoprotein / LDL). Diet model is also more effective in weight loss.

According to a scientist, participants are people with high cholesterol diet through red rice and fish oil had lower LDL cholesterol 40 percent. This decrease was similar to patients taking the drug simvastatin 40 milligrams per day.
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