"Sarang Semut" Herbs for Preventing Lung Cancer And Tumors
For; most people, a quick way to treat lung cancer is to perform surgery to remove tumor tissue and lymph nodes around it. Another way is to do radiation therapy for patients who do not want to do surgery.
Radiation is done to reduce cancer cells in the body. Chemotherapy and radiation used to do when the surgery does not have a great effect to cure lung cancer.
But in addition there are also some people who do alternative medicine using herbs. One of the many plants in search of people are SARANG SEMUT (Mymicodea pendans). Salh Sarangsemut is a traditional crop that comes from Papua – Indonesia and has been widely used by the natives of Papua are hereditary.
According to dr. Ahkan M. Subroto, Expert principal investigator of the Biotechnology center LIPI, that “sarang semut” contain important active compounds such as flavonoids, Tannins, Polifenal, and rich in various minerals that are useful for antioxidant and anti-cancer, so the herbs can be used as a cure for cancer and tumors.
whereas according to Prof.. Dr. Ellin Yulinah Sukandar, ITB professor of pharmacy, that the ant nest contains Tokeferol that function as antioxidants and anti-cancer that can counteract free radical attack by antidegeneratif.
