Jakarta –
Duck cocor is known as an ornamental plant and medicinal plant, which offers health benefits. The Latin name for cocor duck is Kalanchoe pinnata.
This plant is often used in many traditional medicine systems to treat several health problems. Check out the explanation below.
Benefits of Duck Beating
Quoted from Food Thesis, the Cocor Bebek plant is rich in secondary metabolites such as alkaloids, triterpenoids, glycosides, flavonoids, sterols and lipids.
This particular group of chemicals in the leaves is known as bufadienolides. The bufadienolide compound is what makes cocor duck have health benefits.
Quoted from the book Getting to Know the Traditional Medicinal Plants of Life by Santi Kartini, in the 2011 release of the International Journal of Research in Ayurveda and Pharmacy, cocorbek contains many antioxidants, antiallergic, anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic substances.
The following are some of the health benefits of the Cocor Duck plant:
1. Anti Allergy
Cocor Bebek juice is traditionally consumed for upper respiratory diseases and coughs.
Research in 2011 by Baby Joseph, et al. from Hindustan University in the Journal of Microbiology, shows that cocorbek leaf juice is able to protect against anaphylactic reactions caused by chemicals.
The leaves of this plant work by blocking histamine receptors in the lungs.
The results of research by Ogbonnia Steve O, et al. in 2008, revealed that cocorbek water extract showed a decrease in blood glucose levels and low-density lipoproteins (LDL) levels, as well as an increase in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels.
3. Helps treat urinary tract disorders
In a phytochemical and pharmacological review of Kalanchoe pinnata in 2011 by Dr Quazi Majaz Ahamad Aejazuddin, et al. from the Ali-Allana College of Pharmacy, revealed that Kalanchoe pinnata leaf extract can help treat urinary tract disorders and menstrual disorders.
Another health benefit of cocor duck is that it can help reduce bad cholesterol levels. Its hydroalcoholic content plays a role in these benefits.
5. Helps treat wounds
Compounds contained in cocor duck such as tannins, saponins and flavonoids help treat minor wounds.
How to Process Duck Cocor
Utilizing the benefits of cocorbek as an internal medicine can be done by boiling the leaves to extract the extract.
Meanwhile, if used as an external medicine, cocorbek leaves can be crushed and applied to injured parts of the body. For example, such as bruises or ulcers.
Those are some of the benefits of cocor duck for treatment and health as a traditional herbal medicine.
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2024-04-03 13:00:00
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