Concoction of betel nut, betel leaves, and cloves to treat asthma

 Many different ways to cope with asthma people do worldwide. Including me, although I am not an asthmatic, but when looking at the people closest to us suffering from asthma is a very painful thing, especially when we do not know and can not do anything to overcome it. I am fully aware that the disease that we suffer are a part of our lives, and we to deal with it with all of our heart and soul.A few months ago I went to a traditional healer, to consult on asthma suffered by my wife. After several hours of talking, he gives a recipe of herbs to treat asthma. This herb is composed from natural ingredients that I can get in traditional markets near my home. This Herbs consists of betel nuts, betel leaves, and cloves. We can make this potion easily, quite simply by boiling and then taking the results of decoction. Before we start making these herbs, let's look at little explanation about the material which we will make to treat asthma.

1. Betel Nut.

 

The betel nut, or areca nut  is the seed of the areca palm (Areca catechu), which grows in much of the tropical Pacific, Asia, and parts of east Africa. It is commonly referred to as betel nut, as it is often chewed wrapped in betel leaves (paan). The term areca originated from a South Asian world during the 16th century, when Dutch and Portuguese sailors took the nut to Europe.

The habit has many harmful effects on health. The International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded after reviewing the published medical research that chewing areca nut is carcinogenic to humans. Various compounds present in the nut, most importantly arecoline (the primary psychoactive ingredient), contribute to histologic changes in the oral mucosa. As with chewing tobacco, its use is discouraged by preventive efforts, such as awareness of the risks of chewing buai.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areca_nut

2. Betel Leaf. 

The betel (Piper betle) is the leaf of a vine belonging to the Piperaceae family, which includes pepper and kava. It is valued both as a mild stimulant and for its medicinal properties. Betel leaf is mostly consumed in Asia, and elsewhere in the world by some Asian emigrants, as betel quid or in paan, with or without tobacco, in an addictive psycho-stimulating and euphoria-inducing formulation with adverse health effects. Betel is notable for staining the teeth of regular users.

In Sri Lanka and in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal a sheaf of betel leaves is traditionally offered as a mark of respect and auspicious beginnings. Occasions include, greeting elders at wedding ceremonies, New Year, offering payment to Ayurvedic physicians and astrologers where usually money and or areca nut are kept on top of the sheaf of leaves and offered to the elders for their blessings.

The betel plant is an evergreen perennial, with glossy heart-shaped leaves and white catkin. The betel plant originated from South and South East Asia.The betel leaf is predominantly consumed as betel quid or paan, which is a mixture of substances. The paan almost always contains a betel leaf with two basic ingredients, either areca nut or tobacco or both, with lime (calcium hydroxide or calcium carbonate). In an extensive scientific research monograph, the World Health Organization expert group for research on cancer reported in 2004 that the percentage of oral cancer among all cancers diagnosed in hospitals in Asia has always been much higher than that usually found in western countries, where the habit of chewing betel quid, with or without tobacco, is virtually unknown. In many descriptive studies, investigators have obtained histories of chewing betel quid with tobacco from series of patients with oral cancer; and in all these studies the percentage of patients who practice betel leaf chewing was found to be extremely large. Researchers also noted that the cancer generally develops at the place where the betel quid is kept.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betel

3. Cloves.

Cloves are used in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, and western herbalism and dentistry where the essential oil is used as an anodyne (painkiller) for dental emergencies. Cloves are used as a carminative, to increase hydrochloric acid in the stomach and to improve peristalsis. Cloves are also said to be a natural anthelmintic. The essential oil is used in aromatherapy when stimulation and warming are needed, especially for digestive problems. Topical application over the stomach or abdomen are said to warm the digestive tract. Applied to a cavity in a decayed tooth, it also relieves toothache.

In Chinese medicine, cloves or ding xiang are considered acrid, warm, and aromatic, entering the kidney, spleen and stomach meridians, and are notable in their ability to warm the middle, direct stomach qi downward, to treat hiccough and to fortify the kidney yang. Because the herb is so warming, it is contraindicated in any persons with fire symptoms and according to classical sources should not be used for anything except cold from yang deficiency. Cloves may be used internally as a tea and topically as an oil for hypotonic muscles, including for multiple sclerosis. This is also found in Tibetan medicine. Some recommend avoiding more than occasional use of cloves internally in the presence of pitta inflammation such as is found in acute flares of autoimmune diseases.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clove  

Well, let us prepare the materials to make this herb. Please see below.

Material :

•     3 young betel nut.
•     7 pieces of betel leaf.
•     7 seed cloves.
•     2 glasses of water (500 ml).

How to make :

•     Wash betel nut then split into 4 parts.
•     Wash the betel leaf and cloves.
•     Put all the ingredients into a pan containing 2 glasses of water (500 ml).
•     Boil and reserving one glass (250 ml).

When finished, pour into glass and drink twice a day. Perform this treatment for asthma for a month. If within one month there is no significant change, you may stop the treatment. All three ingredients mentioned are known with it contents of substances that has a harsh effect on the nerves, so it is not advisable to use it in the long term. Always consult a method of treatment that we do with health experts and doctors. I do this treatment for three weeks, and proven to reduce asthma attacks that happened to my wife. Hopefully, this article can help a little more as an effort that could help us cope with asthma.

 

Cultivating mangosteen rind for asthma remedy

           As I've promised in my previous articles, this time I will show you how to cultivate mangosteen rind into a cure for asthma. For those of you who may want to know the benefits of mangosteen can read my earlier post here. Just so you know, mangosteen is usually found in the tropics area, especially in the countries of Southeast Asia. For the existence of this fruit in other areas I do not know, because I lived in Indonesia, which is a country with a tropical climate. In my place, the fruit is very easy to find, in local estates plantation, in the traditional markets, even in the supermarket. Mangosteen fruit has been the subject of consumption of people in my country, but unfortunately not many people knows and understand the benefits of this fruit. 

Just so you know, which is used as an asthma remedy is the peel of the mangosteen fruit itself, usually the inner peel. In the past, when not many people know the efficacy of mangosteen peel, usually after eating the the fruit, the peel will end up in the trash. But, as many people have proven the efficacy of mangosteen rind, many people, especially entrepreneurs vying to process mangosteen skin to be used as medicinal products. On this auspicious occasion, I would like to share a bit of knowledge about how to cultivate mangosteen rind to be a remedy for asthma sufferers, using simple tools and materials that are usually already available in our homes.

Despite the bitter taste, mangosteen peel is believed to have tremendous benefits for treating asthma. In fact, taking the herbal medicine of mangosteen peel extract proved to cure various diseases such as cancer, cholesterol, asthma, and high blood pressure. Below are some methodes on cultivating mangosteen rind on to herbs for asthma.

1. For those of you who do not like to use a blender, there is an easy way to process this mangosteen rind into herbal medicine. Take two or three pieces of fresh mangosteen rind, discard the fruit flesh, boiled in two glasses of water (500 ml), boiled until only left one glass (200-250 ml). You may add a tablespoon of pure honey, or you may not, then drink in the morning and evening.

 2. Take the peel of three mangosteen that are still fresh then scrape the inside which there is a white membrane like a thread. To facilitate this process, choose fresh fruit peel. Put it in a blender with two glasses of water, process until smooth. Adjust the amount of water to the number of mangosteen peel to minimize the bitter taste. Pour into a glass and add honey or brown sugar that has been destroyed so that the bitter taste can be reduced. Stir a few moments, and drink-up.

Some signs of side effects due to consumption of these herbal preparations are diarrhea and vomiting. To prevent this, drink mangosteen rind juice in small amounts over several days. The goal is to see the reaction and familiarize our body systems against natural substances contained in it.

Please note: This method is based on my own personal experience, each person has a different level of acceptance and tolerance to foreign substances that enter the body. There is a possibility that the body will reject the intake of foreign substances if they are found to be unsuitable. Always consult your physician or health care professional before trying this method. There must be a cure for every disease, but the same drug may not be able to treat people with the same disease.

Mangosteen peel extract capable to treat asthma

In medical world, the development and innovation for the treatment of asthma is increasing. However, in reality there is no drug found that is able to treat asthma totally. We do not need the statistics to show us, the fact that we encounter in everyday life are more than enough to show. The fact is, chemical drugs simply suppress and fight asthma for a short while only, and are not capable of treating the sufferer in total. In fact, asthma treatment with medical drugs in the long term will only cause numbness of the asthma itself, and then the dose of the drug used will be added, and added again. It's certainly not going to alleviate the condition of the patient, but it will only make things worse. Honestly, for me personally, medical drugs on the market are less effective for the treatment of asthma.

If we suffer from asthma, we know that when an asthma attack is when the most uncomfortable moment. According to my personal knowledge and experience, most asthma is a hereditary disease. Thus, many factors that can trigger asthma attacks. In the case of asthma suffered by my wife all this time, I found that the psychological and environmental conditions, especially weather conditions greatly affect the occurrence of asthma attacks. It makes me extra caution in performing the treatment. To be honest, I'm not confidence to use medical drugs for treating my wife's asthma, and I decided to start using homemade remedies from natural ingredients only. Several months ago, I got the information from a friend about the efficacy of mangosteen peel extract. This treatment methode was immediately applied to my wife.

 Mangosteen fruit originated from southeast asia, and it is state that the origin of the mangosteen fruit is from the island of Borneo Indonesia which spread to other countries. The fruit was first discovered by explorers from France named Laurent Garcin 1683-1751 and cultivated a long time in the wet tropics, then it was named after the inventor in Latin name, Garcinia Mangostana. Despite the bitter taste of mangosteen fruit peel, there are so many properties and benefits, because of that, the mangosteen fruit have earned the nickname "Queen of Fruits" . The mangosteen fruit contains xanthones which turned out to be rich in  high anti-oxidants. This xanthones substances have the ability to remove toxic substances and disease-causing free radicals from your body but it also serves as an anti-cancer agent.There are more than 200 types of materials xanthone found in nature, remain in the mangosteen fruit, there are 40 kinds, and this is the largest to be found. The mangosteen rind contains compounds that include mangosting xanthon, mangostenol, mangostinon A, mangostenon B, trapezifolizanthone, tovophylin B, alfamangostin, beta mangostin, garcinon B, mangostanol, flavonoid, epicatechin, and gartanin. Xanthon levels in the skin of the mangosteen fruit reaches 123.97 mg per ml. Xanthon has the ability as an antioxidant and anti-cancer, including breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, and leukemia. Mangosteen peel extract is antiproliferasi so that it can inhibit cancer cell growth. Xanthones in mangosteen peel can also cure the disease tuberculosis (TB), asthma, and as aniinfalamsi and anti-diarrhea. Not only that, mangosteen peel can also be used to tackle coronary heart disease and HIV. And there are still many other properties of mangosteen rind.

In the next article i will bring you how to make your own homemade remedies from this amazing fruits.