Buah berdaging putih ini, selain dikenal rasanya yang enak, manfaatnya tidak bisa
dianggap remeh. Manfaat sirsak salah satunya adalah dapat membunuh sel kanker.
Sirsak sendiri mengandung beberapa kandungan yang penting seperti kalori, protein, lemak,
hidrat arang, kalsium, fosfor, zat besi serta vitamin A, B, dan C. Dari kandungan-kandungan
tersebut, tentu kita bisa tahu betapa besar sekali manfaat buah sirsak ini.
Sirsak Mengobati Kanker?
Ada beberapa publikasi yang mendukung bahwa sirsak dapat membantu mengobati
berbagai penyakit ganas, termasuk kanker. Berikut ini diantaranya.
1. Pada
tahun 1976, National Cancer Institute melakukan penelitian ilmiah pertama mengenai
manfaat dari buah sirsak. Hasilnya mereka menyimpulkan bahwa batang dan daun sirsak dapat
membantu menghancurkan sel-sel ganas, termasuk sel kanker.
2. Catholic
University of South Korea melakukan studi tentang manfaat sirsak dan
dipublikasikan melalui Journal of Natural Product. Meraka menemukan bahwa senyawa kimia yang
terkandung dalam sirsak, efektif untuk memnghancurkan sel kanker usus besar serta 10.000 kali
bersifat seperti obat kemoterapi. Selain itu senyawa kimia ini diketahui selektif dalam memilih
sel target sehingga tidak membahayakan sel yang sehat.
3. 20 tes laboratorium
seperti dilansir oleh vine-uk.com menemukan bahwa kandungan sirsak efektif untuk
membunuh sel-sel kanker namun tidak merusak sel-sel sehat. Tercatat ada 12 jenis kanker,
termasuk kanker usus besar, paru-paru, prostat, payudara dan kanker pankreas, yang dapat dibunuh
selnya oleh kandungan dari buah sirsak. Selain itu buah berkulit hijau ini juga bermanfaat
meningkatkan sistem kekebalan tubuh serta mencegah infeksi.
4. dr Hardhi,
Ketua Umum Perhimpunan Dokter Herbal Medik Indonesia (PDHMI), menyatakan bahwa sirsak mengandung
senyawa polifenol, saponin dan bioflavonoid yang berfungsi sebagai antioksidan. Berbeda dengan
herbal lainnya, sirsak tidak membahayakan sel-sel yang sehat, melainkan hanya membunuh sel
abnormal yang merusak seperti sel kanker.
5. Suku Indian dari Amerika
menggunakan sirsak termasuk daun, batang, buah, dan bijinya untuk mengobat berbagai penyakit
seperti jantung, asma, gangguan hati, dan arthritis, selama 'berabad-abad'.
Manfaat Buah Sirsak
From sea to shining sea, or at least from one side of the Hudson to the other, politicians you have barely heard of are being accused of wrongdoing. There were so many court proceedings involving public officials on Monday that it was hard to keep up.
In Newark, two underlings of Gov. Chris Christie were arraigned on charges that they were in on the truly deranged plot to block traffic leading onto the George Washington Bridge.
Ten miles away, in Lower Manhattan, Dean G. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on accusations of far more conventional political larceny, involving a job with a sewer company for the son and commissions on title insurance and bond work.
The younger man managed to receive a 150 percent pay increase from the sewer company even though, as he said on tape, he “literally knew nothing about water or, you know, any of that stuff,” according to a criminal complaint the United States attorney’s office filed.
The success of Adam Skelos, 32, was attributed by prosecutors to his father’s influence as the leader of the Senate and as a potentate among state Republicans. The indictment can also be read as one of those unfailingly sad tales of a father who cannot stop indulging a grown son. The senator himself is not alleged to have profited from the schemes, except by being relieved of the burden of underwriting Adam.
The bridge traffic caper is its own species of crazy; what distinguishes the charges against the two Skeloses is the apparent absence of a survival instinct. It is one thing not to know anything about water or that stuff. More remarkable, if true, is the fact that the sewer machinations continued even after the former New York Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was charged in January with taking bribes disguised as fees.
It was by then common gossip in political and news media circles that Senator Skelos, a Republican, the counterpart in the Senate to Mr. Silver, a Democrat, in the Assembly, could be next in line for the criminal dock. “Stay tuned,” the United States attorney, Preet Bharara said, leaving not much to the imagination.
Even though the cat had been unmistakably belled, Skelos father and son continued to talk about how to advance the interests of the sewer company, though the son did begin to use a burner cellphone, the kind people pay for in cash, with no traceable contracts.
That was indeed prudent, as prosecutors had been wiretapping the cellphones of both men. But it would seem that the burner was of limited value, because by then the prosecutors had managed to secure the help of a business executive who agreed to record calls with the Skeloses. It would further seem that the business executive was more attentive to the perils of pending investigations than the politician.
Through the end of the New York State budget negotiations in March, the hopes of the younger Skelos rested on his father’s ability to devise legislation that would benefit the sewer company. That did not pan out. But Senator Skelos did boast that he had haggled with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, in a successful effort to raise a $150 million allocation for Long Island to $550 million, for what the budget called “transformative economic development projects.” It included money for the kind of work done by the sewer company.
The lawyer for Adam Skelos said he was not guilty and would win in court. Senator Skelos issued a ringing declaration that he was unequivocally innocent.
THIS was also the approach taken in New Jersey by Bill Baroni, a man of great presence and eloquence who stopped outside the federal courthouse to note that he had taken risks as a Republican by bucking his party to support paid family leave, medical marijuana and marriage equality. “I would never risk my career, my job, my reputation for something like this,” Mr. Baroni said. “I am an innocent man.”
The lawyer for his co-defendant, Bridget Anne Kelly, the former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, a Republican, said that she would strongly rebut the charges.
Perhaps they had nothing to do with the lane closings. But neither Mr. Baroni nor Ms. Kelly addressed the question of why they did not return repeated calls from the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., begging them to stop the traffic tie-ups, over three days.
That silence was a low moment. But perhaps New York hit bottom faster. Senator Skelos, the prosecutors charged, arranged to meet Long Island politicians at the wake of Wenjian Liu, a New York City police officer shot dead in December, to press for payments to the company employing his son.
Sometimes it seems as though for some people, the only thing to be ashamed of is shame itself.
Finding Scandal in New York and New Jersey, but No Shame