SAMBUNG NYAWA
Scientific name : Gynura procumbens
Facts:
- Annual evergreen shrub with odourless fleshy green leaves and purple tint.
- 10-25 cm high.
- It have succelent , elliptic and glossy leaves.
- Flowering heads are panicled, narrow, yellow and 1 to 1.5 centimeteres long.
Traditional uses:
- Used as folk remedy for the treatment to control diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia.
- Treatment of eruptive fevers, rash, kidney disease, migraine.
- Constipation, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and cancer (Perry, 1980).
- Believed by the Chinese to be one that possesses the ability to lower blood pressure and sugar levels.
- Used to treat sore throat, sinusitis, gastritis, migraines, constipation, kidney diseases and snakebites.
Pharmacology use:
- anti-diabetic, anti inflammatory, antivirus, anti photoaging
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