the advantage of Leaf gedy

Leaf gedy (aibika, Abelmoschus Manihot) is still one genus with okra (Abelmoschus esculentus). In Indonesia, okra is a vegetable that is not too well known by the public. So understandable gedy leaves too little known by mothers of the household.

Another case, if we talk about gedy leaves among the people of Manado. gedy leaves, also known as Gidi, Nating, Lyondong, Kuei, Maree, or Degi, is the vegetable "must" for Manado porridge, especially porridge tinutuan. Manado porridge usually given only vegetables water spinach, cassava leaves, spinach, corn and others. Special tinutuan porridge, absolutely must use gedy leaves. So, then many people Manado (Mongondow people) outside the city of Manado, especially those living in big cities in Java, the plant leaves gedy in their backyard. Many of them are planted in pots gedy.

It was not just residents who like leaves Manado gedy. Soeharto, President of the 2nd, also like the leaves gedy. Suharto's own plant to plant and care for gedy in her backyard on Jl. Cendana, Jakarta. Suharto, who is fond of Javanese gedy leaves as a herb. He picked his own routine that planted gedy leaves, ask for direbuskan, and drink boiled water. Usefulness?

gedy leaves rich in vitamins A, fe, and fiber yana good for digestion. Collagen in gedy leaves efficacious antioxidant, and maintain healthy skin. Leaf fibers will absorb cholesterol and fat, until savur is believed to help lower cholesterol levels and hypertension.

In 1992, Jeni Tresnabudi, from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bandung Institute of Technology (Natural Sciences, ITB), has conducted research on the gedy leaves, with the title examination Leaf Chemical Content of Gedi, with supervisor Dr. Iwang Soediro. Jeni has made isolation of flavonoid compounds from n-butanol fraction gedy leaves. Extraction of crude drug made by hot extraction method using soxhlet, solvent ethanol, followed by liquid extraction using the solvent methylene chloride, ethyl acetate, and n-butanol successively. Then the fraction obtained by n-butanoi separated by column chromatography, followed by preparative TLC using a solvent mixture of methanol with klorofom-composition (9010) to obtain isolates.

Characterization of isolates produce peak UV spectrophotometry at a wavelength of 274 nm which is characteristic of the isoflavone compounds and 2-dimensional paper chromatography showing the location of the stain is in the area of ​​isoflavones. From the study, Jeni Tresnabudi identified a compound leaf flavonoids in the gedy. One compound was suspected as a group of flavone and flavonol 3 - OH - tersubstilusi. It is also found in the acid kafeatasain P - hydroxy benzoate and four other phenolic acids. Of the four phenolic acids, three of them allegedly as ferural acid, siringat acid, and chlorogenic acid. Collectively, the flavonoids are also known as Vitamin P and Citrin.

In the world of pharmacy, flavonoids are known as antioxidants, which can reduce the risk of heart attack. Flavonoids in the leaves of gedy also has the potential to prevent, inhibit and even kill cancer cells. This potential, which is still widely studied by the pharmacist. However, the use of leaf gedy, both as a vegetable in Manado porridge, or by boiling and drinking water, can still be done on a regular basis. Utilization of real gedy leaves not only done by the people of Manado, but also by the Philippines, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Japan. In these countries, leaves gedy not only used as a mixture of pulp, but as regular vegetables, as well as traditional medicine.

gedy leaves are woody shrubs that will only reach a height of about 3 to 4 meters. Stem woody plants, but the hollow in the middle. Stemmed and leaf-shaped menjari gedy like cassava leaves and papaya. Flowers gedy shaped like a flower shoe, crowned five, bright yellow, with its center graded purple. Because interest rates at a glance like shoes, then gedy often dikclirukan plants as the genus Hibiscus. Even today, there are many who call gedy literature with the Latin name Hibiscus Manihot, not Abeimoschus Manihot. Yet gedy is not one with hibiscus genus, but with vegetable okra.

Gedi easily cultivated. This plant can grow well start from the lowlands, up to an altitude of 1000 m. asl. Plant propagation by stem cuttings, such as cassava. Rapid plant growth gedy, until without trimming or plucking the leaves on a regular basis, would be a very dense canopy. When planted in pots, plant roots will quickly gedy also meet the media pot. That's why regular repotting should be done about 0.5 years. At first glance similar gedy plants Chaya Cnidoscolus aconitifolius), vegetables magical Mayan from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. However, if observed carefully, these two plants are very much difference