Upright shrub plants that have a stem height of approximately one meter with round rods with small diameter, woody, segmented and branched and hairy. The shape of the leaves is ovoid in green and is categorized as single leaf.
The beautiful flower resembles a trumpet with a feathery surface, each flower has five petals. Plant or flower of tread dara [vinca rosea] also has a cylindrical shaped house that hangs on the stem, while the spread of plants is mostly through the seeds.
Tapak dara is still close to the frangipani family is thought to come from Central America and India. But a number of other credible sources say that virginity is from Madagascar, therefore people in Europe give it the name of this flower as Madagascar Periwinkle.
It is known that almost all parts of the palm trees are very beneficial for body health. The leaves contain alkoloid compounds namely vincristine and vinblastine, these two compounds are antineocristine which is effective against cancer cells.
Other parts of plants such as flowers, fruit and stems contain catharantine alkoloids which are known as anti-cancer. Catharantine alkoloids contain substances similar to plasma cancer cells, if consumed by patients with cancer cells in the body will absorb it and the result is the cancer cell nucleus will be pressed and disappear slowly.
A study conducted by a team of well-known drug makers from United States, said that palm trees can be used as a deterrent and eradication of cancer cells in the human body.
In addition to overcoming cancer, leurisine and vindoline compounds contained in virgin plants can be used as insulin substitutes for diabetics. Whereas the active ingredient vinblastine and vincristine is believed to be very capable of taming leukemia sufferers, swollen spleen, breast cancer and malignant tumors, but we know as ornamental plants the designation for this plant include Vinca Rosea ,Lochnera rosea, catharanthus roseus. The name of the local Chinese saffron flower and pletekan flower. The flowers are in the shape of a trumpet, the color is pink like ros, with deep red in the middle, white with red in the middle.
The provision of the name footprint is also known as tapak dara is a trail of pigeons because the long oval fruit is arranged in two-two, reminding people with toes or treads of pigeons.
Soft trunked plants but live a long time, even this many times that we often see in the yard of the house which has a height of twenty cm to one meter, with the appearance of leaves that are ovoid elongated arranged in the trunk, around the armpit flowers appear pink or pink and white, the blossom of the flower is always in the shoot area.
The content of Vinblastin and Vindolin from the leaves of this plant is popular for treating tumors,
because of its vinblastine content, which is a type of antineoplastic alkaloid [an element that can suppress tumor cells] Vinblastin [vinca-leucoblastin] extracted from the leaves of this plant was once processed into a patent drug which was circulated as Exal, Velban and Velbe. Now the drugs are no longer made because in addition to being less effective it also causes side effects to cause pain to the user.
Besides vinblastine, tapak dara leaf extract also contains vindolin, a type of other alkaloids in the form of methylester from carboxylic acid aspidospermidin.
To treat diabetes, the processing tricks are...?
Taken one handful of tread leaves and then boiled in three glasses of water, after boiling and left to continue until the water remains two glasses, then the juice is drunk. Drugs or herbs like this need to be taken three times a day.
According to the experience of people who have used it rather than this plant, in just a week the feeling of weakness in the body and often tiredness and lack of stamina due to suffering from diabetes has disappeared.