Seaweed extract hindering Pearl Cancer Growth
Acne, Cancer September 8th, 2009
Extracts pearl grass (Hedyotis corymbosa) can inhibit cancer cell growth. Besides able to prevent cancer cell division, this plant can be to treat inflammation and acne.
The discovery was based on research from Febriansah Rifki, Nature Materials Pharmacy Students Faculty of Pharmacy Gadjah Mada University (UGM) Yogyakarta on campus, Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta, Thursday (27/8/2009). Rifki had just won the Young Researcher selection of finalists Indonesia (PPPI) field of Natural Science and Environment organized by LIPI.
“Apart from a few plants that have been developed to treat cancer, pearl grass based research results can also be for a cure for cancer,” said Rifki.
According to him, which is currently used to treat the pearl grass among cancer treatment from China. Was in Indonesia is still rarely used for treatment of primarily as an anti-cancer agents.
“We were inspired to use grass as a cure for cancer pearls after seeing a number of ways in Chinese medicine for cancer and tumors also use it,” he said.
For traditional medicine such as inflammation, pearl grass enough water is boiled and then drunk. When to treat acne, crushed pearl grass then applied to the existing face acne.
“These plants include wild plants grow more easily found around the yard and lane gutters. This plant was a high economic value,” said Rifki.
In pearl grass plants Rifki words contain the active compounds of several amino acids ursolat and uleanolat. Both compounds were mempu prevent cancer cell division. From the research it for 8 months, carried out experiments using a rat animal. Mice that had cancer in the liver that, when given the pearl grass extract was the development of cancer cells can be inhibited.
“Our results in the laboratory was indeed effective, the future of this extract could be developed into a cancer drug,” said Rifki who took the title of his scientific work ‘Potential Etanolik Extracts Kemopreventif Pearl Grass (Hedyotis corymbosa (L) Lamk) on Tue Strain Rat Liver 7.12 Sprague-Dawley induced Dimetilbenz (a) Antrasena ‘.
