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Honey bee “fighting” or bitter honey pure common in West Bangka Regency, Province of Bangka Belitung (Babel), was interested in the tourists, because it has properties that can cure various diseases in the human body.

Marhabun, a bee pemadu fighting in the village of Simpang Tiga, Teritib District, West Bangka, Babylon, Sunday, said, tourists from other provinces such as Jakarta and Palembang often came to his village only to find that honey bees fighting efficacious cure various diseases.

In addition to tourists from outside the province, he said, residents of other districts in Babylon there was also fighting for the honey bee to the village of Simpang Tiga.

“Tourists often come out of the province to the village of Simpang three, only to find that honey bees Pelawan bitter taste, unlike other honey bees,” he said and mentioned the honey bee fighting was sold for Rp120 thousand per kg, while the sweet honey bee Rp40 thousand per kg .

According to him, honey bees have proven fighter that can cure various diseases such as kidney, high blood pressure, low blood, disorder of the stomach, weak syawat, diabetes and neutralize the poison food lodged in the body.

“I often visited by people who never buy honey bees and claimed his opponents felt well since taking the honey bee fighting, so people are always ordering me honey bees,” he said.

He explains, honey produced from bees nest in the village consists of two kinds of honey that tastes bitter fighting and honey sweet. Honey-fighting, he said it is bitter because the bee sucks fighting tree that bitter taste that honey bees were bitter.

“The sweet honey bee is a kind of suck at harvest crops or fruit, so the honey bee’s sweet,” he said.

According to him, honey bees were fighting very hard to come by and to the Babylonians, only in West Bangka always popular with the region producing both honey bees honey bees fighting (bitter taste) and a sweet honey bee.

“Honey bees fighting comes from the beehive nesting at a number of large trees around the village and harvest time only once a year in May each year,” he said.

However, he said, people also often experience crop failure occurs when the rainy season on the schedule for harvest hive does not contain honey when the rainy season.

“If it happened in May of summer, the hive of honey bees which contains a lot of fighting, reaching 30 for one kilo gram of beehive-busy and bustling community hive fighting for it in the woods around the village,” he says and mentions many of the honeycomb found in a large timber trees.

Although difficult to find a honey bee’s fighting, but he said, honey supplies remain there all there are many requests coming from outside the province because of fighting that honey bees have the resilience or durability of the tens of years of storage provided with tightly closed.

“People fighting to save the honey bees for years for personal consumption and for sale if anyone meminatinya, though not in significant amounts due to limited supply because of the difficulty of getting the honey bee’s fighting,” he said.

lemongrass oil addition to ward off the danger of DHF, people often use kasiat guava. Understandably many people who claim to successfully rescued from dengue fever because of guava juice.

DHF patients Tertolongnya guava blessing, may be not because jambunya, but because the liquid juice into the patient’s body in large quantities. The liquid, especially if taken up to 5 or 6 cups a day, much needed patients who have lost a lot of blood plasma due to decreased platelets.

Any liquid, either plain water or water solution of salt or sugar and other fruit juices can help the healing process of dengue fever patients, if consumed in large quantities. Drinks in cans containing electrolytes is also recommended given to patients.

Here are some types of liquids that can be given to people with dengue fever to avoid dehydration:

1. Air Kelapa Muda
The UN World Food Agency (FAO – Food & Agriculture Organization) recognizes that the properties of young coconut water as a thirst-killing substances rich in natural electrolytes. Electrolyte and nutritional substance more than just drink the thirst-killing factory production. Mentioned in the FAO official website that the young coconut juice natural, delicious, rich in salt, sugar, and vitamins needed Olympic-class athletes and amateurs. In fact, the UN agency has patented a young coconut water is efficacious.

In the young coconut water contains minerals potassium, sodium, chloride, and magnesium. These substances are electrolytes the body needs to help overcome the threat of shock in dehydrated condition. Besides potassium, also contains sugar, vitamins B and C and protein. The composition of sugars and minerals contained in water is so perfect, that mentioned a similar balance with human body fluids.

2. Hexagonal Water
Chinese traditional medicine, always advocated the consumption of water “live”. Is never mentioned mean “life” is. In Korea, people who diligently take waterfalls in the mountains maintained their health, according to Yunjo Chung, MD, a doctor from the University of Korea. Water “live” may be a water rich in oxygen content as the waterfall.

Korea has recently successfully patented a technology called Actimo to make water “life” that contains oxygen and sold throughout the world. According to them, in the human body there are two forms of water compounds, pentagonal (pentagons) and hexagonal (hexagonal).

Hexagonal and pentagonal distinction was only based on its structure. Pentagonal water molecules form a series of water with a large group of bonds and unstable. As usual white water, hexagonal water is not tasteless and odorless.

3. Fruit juice
Lack of fluid because of dengue fever can also be overcome by water juice. Not always have guava juice. “Can papaya juice, orange, or mango juice, as long as the patient likes,” said Dr. Irawan Hindra Satari, Sp.A (K) M.Tro.Pad, a pediatrician.

Water content in the fruit high count, which varies between 65 to 92 percent, so that it can cover the lack of fluid from blood plasma merembesnya out of the vessel.

Michael T. Murray, ND, in his book The Complete Book of Juicing, writing juice is easily absorbed body for its smooth and fluid. Known nutrients such as the intestine is absorbed in the form of juice. Means juice helps the digestive process by accelerating the body’s absorption of nutrients high quality contained in the juice.

4. Guava
Khasiatnya Although not medically proven, it never hurts to give the guava juice for dengue fever patients. Therefore, this exotic fruit contains vitamin C which is very high.

Vitamin C is found in the flesh. Seeds are often not consumed also contains vitaimin C. Mentioned in the book Foods that Heal, Foods that Harm, 90 grams of guava fruit is more than enough to meet the daily requirement of vitamin C in adults. The book also mentions, though it lost nearly 25 percent of the vitamin because the process of processing, packaging guava juice box is still a source of vitamin C is good.

Thanks to contain high doses of vitamin C is, immunity against bacteria in the body will increase. Any wound healing process go faster. In addition, blood pressure is also getting better because of this fruit is a good source of potassium.

To get the maximum benefit, select fruit that had just ripe and still green and yellow. When fully ripe, store in the refrigerator. Do not forget to wash before made juice.

5. Alang-Alang
Wild plants named Latin Imperata cylindrica (L) Beauv has been frequently studied. According to Drs. Dalimartha Setiawan in the book Traditional Remedy for the Treatment of Hepatitis, foreign weeds have made patent medicines.
Research on this plant mention, reeds contain mannitol, glucose, sakharosa, malic acid, citric acid, coixol, arundoin, cylindrin, fernenol, simiarenol, anemonin, grit acid, resin, and alkali metals. Judging from the contents, the weeds are antipyretic (reduce heat), diuretics (urine shed), hemostatik (stop bleeding), and eliminate the thirsty.

Traditional Chinese Medicine says, the weeds have a sweet and cool properties. The effect of this treatment plant enters the lung meridian, stomach and small intestine. With the launch diuretic properties urine, reeds useful to treat acute renal inflammatory disease.

Diuretic properties which remove useless body fluids is useful for controlling blood pressure is likely to be high. Hemostatik properties that can stop the bleeding can also be used to overcome the nosebleeds and internal bleeding.

These herbs in the body will infiltrate into the organs of the lungs, stomach and small intestine. Therefore, weed herb should not be given to those who are weak stomach functions and urinary frequency.

Part reed plants that can be used as traditional medicine is a rhizome, either fresh or dried. Reed materials can be obtained in the Chinese medicine shop. Now readily available even reeds drink instant hot efficacious in eliminating. This instant beverages are available in herbal shops or Chinese medicine shop.

How to utilization, take one bunch or roll roots of the weeds. Wash and boil in three cups of water until the remaining one cup. Mix the juice of one lime juice with three tablespoons of water weeds such. Use as needed. Add sweetener if the herb is intended for children.

6. Angkung
Angkung believed to help cure the disease meningitis, stroke, brain inflammation, liver disease, seizures, and lack of body fluids as well as in the case of dengue fever. However, unfortunately angkung very expensive price. Price one pill angkung reached USD 250 thousand. Angkung usually sold in packs of pills in Chinese medicine shop.

To buy have to be careful because the market angkung identified many false. The characteristics of the original angkung including pills wrapped in gold paper after opening the box. Angkung pill form like porridge or lunkhead, flexible but easily broken. Other characteristics, very quickly dissolves when brewed with hot water, even in less than 1 minute. Characteristics that are easily recognized the authenticity of the outer packaging is the hologram label and sign manufacturers.

In addition to the expensive cost, the benefits are not immediate angkung after drinking one or two eggs. “Just felt Khasiatnya Angkung to overcome severe illness taken regularly after 6 to 8 pills every day,” said John Sinse, who practiced at East Kalibesar area, West Jakarta.

7. Daun Dewa
God leaves of plants can also be used as a substitute angkung. This plant-shaped bush. Leaf is part of the plant which is used as a medicine.
This herb is rich with various chemical ingredients such as saponins, ASIRI oils, flavonoids, and tannins. With the chemical content of the plant are useful as an anticoagulant (dilute blood clot), stop the bleeding, remove the heat, clean toxin.

Plant gods are also available in Chinese drug stores in capsule form. The price is relatively cheaper than angkung.