(The leaf of the Gods)
Plant Information
Common Asian Names: Paetumpung (Thailand), Mollucan Spinach, Sambung Nyawa 'extending life' (Malaysia), Daun Dewa (Indonesia), Akar Sebiak, Kelemai Merah, "NAN FEI YE" "Bai Bing Ca" (Chinese).
Scientific Name: Gynura procumbens
United States: Green Harmony, Longevity Spinach, Cholesterol Spinach
Description:
• Perennial
• Growing 10 – 25 cm tall.
• Young stems are green, turning light purple with green spots.
• New shoots and branches appear frequently at base and leaf nodes.
• Fleshy branches can be trimmed and pinched regularly to grow as a low bush, or staked on trellis.
Culinary Uses:
• Leaf vegetable - Incredible taste, perfect addition to any salad, or stand alone salad.
• Young leaves/ shoots can be eaten fresh by itself/ included in rice dishes/ mixed in with salads (like lettuce or spinach).
• Fresh Juice or Smoothie
• Cook with butter /add to a casserole /soup/ stir-fried (fry garlic in a little oil and then saute the leaves and young shoots in oyster sauce)/ sauteed lightly like one would spinach.
• Tea. Parts Used: • Leaves, shoots.
• Keep in the fridge.
Medicinal Folk Medicine Uses.
It is said that:
• Lowers blood sugar (diabetes), cholesterol (lipid, serum, triglyceride levels).
• Topical inflammation, rheumatism, viral ailments, diarrhea, dysentery, febrifuges, hypertension, urinary tract infection, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic.
• Anti-cancer: Inhibition effect on growth of cancer cells.
• Contains Asparaginase, kind of enzyme to inhibit protein syntheses by hydrolyzing asparagines (amino acid which is very essentially, needed by cancer/tumor cells) into aspartic acid and ammonia, so the cancer cells/tumor cells will stop growing and die.
• Poultice: relieves rheumatic and general body-pains. A vigorous herbaceous climber of forest margins and thickets, native of SE Asia, The plant is grown in the rice area of Mindanao in the Philippine Islands as a ’remedy for rice aphids’ but the manner of its action is not clear. The leaves serve in Malaya as a flavoring for food, and in SE Asia, the plant used for kidney-troubles, dysentery and as a febrifuge or internal worms dismissing agent. In Nigeria the semi-succulent leaves are applied to relieve rheumatic pains, while in Sierra Leone it is the boiled leaves that are applied for general body-pains.
In Indonesia Gynura procumbens (Lour) Merr leaves have been long used as various cancers medication. Many in vitro and in vivo studies have demonstrated anti carcinogenesis of ethanolic extract of Gynura procumbens leaves
The leaf of Gynura procumbens has lowering effect on blood sugar and lipid levels.
The extract significantly reduced serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, having biguanide or metamorphen -like activity.
Gynura procumbens used in Thai folk medicine to treat topical inflammation, rheumatism, and viral ailments
Hypotensive Activity of an Aqueous Fraction of Gynura Procumbens and Possible Mechanisms of Action
· The Leaf use as Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavorings
· As Medicines: to overcome arthritis, rheumatism, etc.; pain-killers, diarrhea, dysentery; febrifuges; kidneys, diuretics
A vigorous herbaceous climber of forest margins and thickets, native of SE Asia, The plant is grown in the rice area of Mindanao in the Philippine Islands as a ’remedy for rice aphids’ but the manner of its action is not clear. The leaves serve in Malaya as a flavoring for food, and in SE Asia, the plant used for kidney-troubles, dysentery and as a febrifuge or internal worms dismissing agent. In Nigeria the semi-succulent leaves are applied to relieve rheumatic pains, while in Sierra Leone it is the boiled leaves that are applied for general body-pains.
In Indonesia Gynura procumbens (Lour) Merr leaves have been long used as various cancers medication. Many in vitro and in vivo studies have demonstrated anti carcinogenesis of ethanolic extract of Gynura procumbens leaves
The leaf of Gynura procumbens has lowering effect on blood sugar and lipid levels.
The extract significantly reduced serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, having biguanide or metamorphen -like activity.
Gynura procumbens used in Thai folk medicine to treat topical inflammation, rheumatism, and viral ailments
Hypotensive Activity of an Aqueous Fraction of Gynura Procumbens and Possible Mechanisms of Action
· The Leaf use as Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavorings
· As Medicines: to overcome arthritis, rheumatism, etc.; pain-killers, diarrhea, dysentery; febrifuges; kidneys, diuretics A vigorous herbaceous climber of forest margins and thickets, native of SE Asia, The plant is grown in the rice area of Mindanao in the Philippine Islands as a ’remedy for rice aphids’ but the manner of its action is not clear. The leaves serve in Malaya as a flavoring for food, and in SE Asia, the plant used for kidney-troubles, dysentery and as a febrifuge or internal worms dismissing agent. In Nigeria the semi-succulent leaves are applied to relieve rheumatic pains, while in Sierra Leone it is the boiled leaves that are applied for general body-pains.
In Indonesia Gynura procumbens (Lour) Merr leaves have been long used as various cancers medication. Many in vitro and in vivo studies have demonstrated anti carcinogenesis of ethanolic extract of Gynura procumbens leaves
The leaf of Gynura procumbens has lowering effect on blood sugar and lipid levels.
The extract significantly reduced serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, having biguanide or metamorphen -like activity.
Gynura procumbens used in Thai folk medicine to treat topical inflammation, rheumatism, and viral ailments
Hypotensive Activity of an Aqueous Fraction of Gynura Procumbens and Possible Mechanisms of Action
· The Leaf use as Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavorings
· As Medicines: to overcome arthritis, rheumatism, etc.; pain-killers, diarrhea, dysentery; febrifuges; kidneys, diuretics
Common Asian Names: Paetumpung (Thailand), Mollucan Spinach, Sambung Nyawa 'extending life' (Malaysia), Daun Dewa (Indonesia), Akar Sebiak, Kelemai Merah, "NAN FEI YE" "Bai Bing Ca" (Chinese).
Scientific Name: Gynura procumbens
United States: Green Harmony, Longevity Spinach, Cholesterol Spinach
Description:
• Perennial
• Growing 10 – 25 cm tall.
• Young stems are green, turning light purple with green spots.
• New shoots and branches appear frequently at base and leaf nodes.
• Fleshy branches can be trimmed and pinched regularly to grow as a low bush, or staked on trellis.
Culinary Uses:
• Leaf vegetable - Incredible taste, perfect addition to any salad, or stand alone salad.
• Young leaves/ shoots can be eaten fresh by itself/ included in rice dishes/ mixed in with salads (like lettuce or spinach).
• Fresh Juice or Smoothie
• Cook with butter /add to a casserole /soup/ stir-fried (fry garlic in a little oil and then saute the leaves and young shoots in oyster sauce)/ sauteed lightly like one would spinach.
• Tea. Parts Used: • Leaves, shoots.
• Keep in the fridge.
Medicinal Folk Medicine Uses.
It is said that:
• Lowers blood sugar (diabetes), cholesterol (lipid, serum, triglyceride levels).
• Topical inflammation, rheumatism, viral ailments, diarrhea, dysentery, febrifuges, hypertension, urinary tract infection, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic.
• Anti-cancer: Inhibition effect on growth of cancer cells.
• Contains Asparaginase, kind of enzyme to inhibit protein syntheses by hydrolyzing asparagines (amino acid which is very essentially, needed by cancer/tumor cells) into aspartic acid and ammonia, so the cancer cells/tumor cells will stop growing and die.
• Poultice: relieves rheumatic and general body-pains. A vigorous herbaceous climber of forest margins and thickets, native of SE Asia, The plant is grown in the rice area of Mindanao in the Philippine Islands as a ’remedy for rice aphids’ but the manner of its action is not clear. The leaves serve in Malaya as a flavoring for food, and in SE Asia, the plant used for kidney-troubles, dysentery and as a febrifuge or internal worms dismissing agent. In Nigeria the semi-succulent leaves are applied to relieve rheumatic pains, while in Sierra Leone it is the boiled leaves that are applied for general body-pains.
In Indonesia Gynura procumbens (Lour) Merr leaves have been long used as various cancers medication. Many in vitro and in vivo studies have demonstrated anti carcinogenesis of ethanolic extract of Gynura procumbens leaves
The leaf of Gynura procumbens has lowering effect on blood sugar and lipid levels.
The extract significantly reduced serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, having biguanide or metamorphen -like activity.
Gynura procumbens used in Thai folk medicine to treat topical inflammation, rheumatism, and viral ailments
Hypotensive Activity of an Aqueous Fraction of Gynura Procumbens and Possible Mechanisms of Action
· The Leaf use as Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavorings
· As Medicines: to overcome arthritis, rheumatism, etc.; pain-killers, diarrhea, dysentery; febrifuges; kidneys, diuretics
A vigorous herbaceous climber of forest margins and thickets, native of SE Asia, The plant is grown in the rice area of Mindanao in the Philippine Islands as a ’remedy for rice aphids’ but the manner of its action is not clear. The leaves serve in Malaya as a flavoring for food, and in SE Asia, the plant used for kidney-troubles, dysentery and as a febrifuge or internal worms dismissing agent. In Nigeria the semi-succulent leaves are applied to relieve rheumatic pains, while in Sierra Leone it is the boiled leaves that are applied for general body-pains.
In Indonesia Gynura procumbens (Lour) Merr leaves have been long used as various cancers medication. Many in vitro and in vivo studies have demonstrated anti carcinogenesis of ethanolic extract of Gynura procumbens leaves
The leaf of Gynura procumbens has lowering effect on blood sugar and lipid levels.
The extract significantly reduced serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, having biguanide or metamorphen -like activity.
Gynura procumbens used in Thai folk medicine to treat topical inflammation, rheumatism, and viral ailments
Hypotensive Activity of an Aqueous Fraction of Gynura Procumbens and Possible Mechanisms of Action
· The Leaf use as Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavorings
· As Medicines: to overcome arthritis, rheumatism, etc.; pain-killers, diarrhea, dysentery; febrifuges; kidneys, diuretics A vigorous herbaceous climber of forest margins and thickets, native of SE Asia, The plant is grown in the rice area of Mindanao in the Philippine Islands as a ’remedy for rice aphids’ but the manner of its action is not clear. The leaves serve in Malaya as a flavoring for food, and in SE Asia, the plant used for kidney-troubles, dysentery and as a febrifuge or internal worms dismissing agent. In Nigeria the semi-succulent leaves are applied to relieve rheumatic pains, while in Sierra Leone it is the boiled leaves that are applied for general body-pains.
In Indonesia Gynura procumbens (Lour) Merr leaves have been long used as various cancers medication. Many in vitro and in vivo studies have demonstrated anti carcinogenesis of ethanolic extract of Gynura procumbens leaves
The leaf of Gynura procumbens has lowering effect on blood sugar and lipid levels.
The extract significantly reduced serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, having biguanide or metamorphen -like activity.
Gynura procumbens used in Thai folk medicine to treat topical inflammation, rheumatism, and viral ailments
Hypotensive Activity of an Aqueous Fraction of Gynura Procumbens and Possible Mechanisms of Action
· The Leaf use as Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavorings
· As Medicines: to overcome arthritis, rheumatism, etc.; pain-killers, diarrhea, dysentery; febrifuges; kidneys, diuretics