Sunday, February 17, 2013

www.malaysianherbals.com-South African Leaf -(107) NAN HUI YE


 NAN HUI YE 
South Africa leaves

Summary : South Africa leaves the effectiveness of heat-clearing and detoxifying, feature heat and cooling blood, apply to lowering blood pressure, diabetes, wind-heat or blood-hot skin, and itching of the skin.





South African Plant or Pokok South Africa


That's the name of the plant’s cutting given by a two Chinese patients or rather cancer survivors. From just a small cutting, it grew to a considerable size, standing guard to the side entrance on the right, and on the left is the Momordica charantia plant, climbing the tall decorative plant. The other cutting - with me not really appreciating its value at that time - died on being neglected.



Just before Ramadan this year, i.e. since August 2008, I have been suffering a severe nagging pain in the left hip and had tried various remedies to no avail. Thought of it as possible bone metastasis. Then one day, a guy mentioned to DH that he heard people talking in the coffee shop, about one plant named "Pokok South Afrika" that is said to be good for all sorts of pain and chronic illnesses. Well, DH was excited and showed the plant to the man. He said the practice is by soaking three to four leaves in hot water, covering them and drinking the water after a while.



What we did was, we soaked 6 leaves in a mug of boiling hot water. Covered them for a while. DH drank the water and I ate the leaves. It was like making full use of the limited leaves. After five days, red spots appeared on our thighs. DH panicked and stopped, in spite of me telling him that it was probably healing crisis.

Well, I continued, but taking three to four young leaves with my rice. I chewed the bitter leaves with some rice and gravy at the beginning of my breakfast or lunch. After swallowing the leaves, after the bitterness cleared (not as bitter as Andrographis paniculata or Hempedu bumi leave, slightly less bitter than Elaphantos scaber or Daun tutup bumi), there is a subtle sweetness and what was more pleasing to me was the fact that the leaves took care of my appetite or craving.

In the past, after eating nasi lemak, I will be craving for a sandwich or whatever I saw other people were eating, but with the leaves, not only I was satiated by half pack of nasi lemak, but that was all, in fact for the rest of the day if I chose not to eat. No hunger pang, no craving. And yes, I forgot, the nagging pain is now just 10%, or rather I am not bothered by the pain anymore. That was after taking the leaves for a week. However, after the fasting month, I had also continued my twice a week jogging in the campus. That probably helped too.



Lilly Chew told me that the leaves from Pokok South Afrika is a "cure all." Saw Har, the other survivor who gave me the cutting, told me that she knew one lady who had cancer of uterus or ovary, and while waiting for op day, had taken the leaves regularly and pre-op ultra sound showed that the tumour had regressed and the op was cancelled. I am sure, that lady had other healing practices.

We usually hear such fantastic story about others who tried recommended remedy. I really don’t know whether it is truly a cure. Well, placebo is also a cure, what I called “faith at work.” What I know is that I can’t afford to wait for its therapeutic trials whether in animal or in human, but what I knew from taking the leaves is that it works for me. I guess those recommended herbs that are bitter, are good for us survivors. The bitter the better. Probably the bitter chemical inhibit the growth factor for tumour or cancer. ANY ONE KNOWING THE SCIENTIFIC NAME, PLEASE HELP!

Well, so much for medicinal herbs. By the way some of the shrubs and trees in my garden are turning into other live forms.




14 Comments:

  • At November 10, 2008Anonymous Anonymous said…
    Dear Has,
    i think I have seen the pokok South Africa near the pedestrian path in Sri Hartamasin KL! It is v.tall and the stem ( or trunk) is thin, slender and woody right. Daun nya macam sireh,but slimmer. The nyonya who drew it says it is good for health and chews 1 raw leaf everyday it seems. She doesn't know the malay or english name. Next time I am up in KL I will get anak pokok to plant here in kampung and ask Nyonya for the chinese name.

    Yes, it is very bitter....

    Salam, Azmi
  • At November 10, 2008Blogger Has said…
    Dear Azmi,

    Actually it is easily grown from cutting, so potong banyak2 dan cucuk aje dalam polybag...

    Yes, bitter, but try chewing and swallowing, and take some bread or rice and you can actually taste a subtle sweetness...
  • At November 11, 2008Anonymous Anonymous said…
    Dear Dr Has,
    Been reading your informative blog quite a while. Wonder if I can have your email or number so that I can get my C survivor friend to communicate with you. -umi
    Thank you.
  • At November 11, 2008Blogger Has said…
    Dear Anon;

    My e mail: nadim_s7@yahoo.com
  • At December 25, 2008Anonymous Anonymous said…
    hi Has, thanks for sharing such useful info. yeah, 'south african leaf' is convincingly effective as far as i know. we have some in our compound. it has helped my parents with their joint pains, balance bp and cholesterol, helped my diabetic aunt to cut down her insulin in take tremendously. i started consuming it also after reading from your blog, chew one raw leaf each day, and you are right, i developed rashes on my thighs. however, pain in the neck is gone and also i could see detox effects in may toilet habits. i have stopped 5 days as the rashes are pretty unbearable, but i think i'm going to chew a raw leaf again tomorrow.
    i read in China, people juice the leaves with green apple and also made sandwich with it. the chinese name's 南非叶
  • At December 28, 2008Blogger Has said…
    Dear Anon,

    The rash, or for my case impetigo like spots is pretty worrying. It became troubling after a month conusuming the leaves. It is good to write about it in blog, thus I could reflect on the time frame for the side effect to because real nuisance.

    Another thing, either south african leaves or the peria katak, had effectively wiped out all the friendly bacteria in my system, resulting in itchy vigina and perianal region, the consequent of overgrowth in candida. Candida is not good for cancer patients.

    Thus effective from mid Dec, I stop both peria katak and south african leaves.

    Now, I am on just these herbs: 1/3 daikon a day, the clinacanthus nutas, strobilanthes cripus and wheatgrass.

    Thank you for sharing the info on south african plant. Do you know its scientific name?
  • At January 01, 2009Blogger ~PakKaramu~ said…
    Selamat menyambut tahun baru
  • At August 11, 2009Blogger josh said…
    Does anyone know of anywhere in North America to get such natural herbs for cancer patients? I am in Alberta, Canada and desperately looking for alternatives or supplements to the traditional treatments of cancer.
  • At August 17, 2009Anonymous Anonymous said…
    Dr. Has, does this look like the plant you mentioned as Pokok South Africa?

    http://nileherb.blogspot.com/2008/09/gynura-procumbens-lour-sambung-mjawa.html

    joechia
  • At August 18, 2009Blogger Has said…
    Josh, I'm afraid I can't help with your question.

    Joechia, the plant shown in that blog is gynura procumbens or in Malay Pokok Sambung Nyawa.
  • At August 18, 2009Anonymous Anonymous said…
    josh, why don't you try this website where you can get more info. http://cacare.com/index.php?option=com_easyfaq&task=view&id=287&Itemid=39.

    also check up on http://www.amazonbioenergetics.com/reports-graviola-drapeau.htm

    best wishes,

    joechia
  • At August 18, 2009Anonymous Anonymous said…
    Dr, this site says that Sambung Nyawa can grow up to 6 meters tall . Don't you think this is the pokok Saouth Africa ?.

    http://www.globinmed.com/IMRContent/detail.aspx?id=BOT00119

    joechia
  • At April 04, 2010Blogger EritaGarden said…
    I came to know about this tree from my brother in Segamat, Johor. According to him it is very effective to reduce his high blood pressure. He took 3 to 4 leaves and dip it in hot water, like making Chinese tea. He drinks only twice a week.

    It's bitter, but after a while it felt like "sweetness" (don't know how to discribe the taste, it's close to "sweet").

    As for me, I felt I can sleep better at night after one glass.

    I just planted 42 trees at my house in Puchong, KL. So easy to plant lar, even for people like me, who never successfully grow any plant also can successfully grow this tree. Just poke it into the ground and it will magically grow like no body business (I have a sense of success and satisfaction planting this tree.)

    I saw the one in my brother's house can grow up to 15 feet, so not only it can be a good medicine tree, it can also be a very good fencing tree and sun blocker too. Thats why I planted 42 trees along my house boundary.

    After 6 months, if you guys wanted to plant, may be you can come to my house to get it for free.

    This is really a God sent tree.At July 03, 2011Blogger Dr. H said… Thanks  to Dr. from  physician packiam
    At last, the scientific name is Vernodia amygdalina as in WIKI:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernonia_amygdalina


   
                   

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