Have you ever heard about insulin leaves? Yes, this one and only leave seems like strange for most of Indonesian people. There are not many of us who know about the leaves’ form and classification due to this plant is not the original endemic plant of Indonesia.

The plants come from Andes Mountain in Argentina. These leaves have Latin name of Smallanthus Sonchifolius. Far away in Argentina, the leaves often used by the locals as the herbal medicine therapy.

In Indonesia, less people know about the leaves and call them as yakon leaves. As its name, insulin leaves are very essential to be used as the herbal medicine to cure diabetic. However, it is not diabetic which can be cured by the leaves but more complicated diseases such as hyper tense, liver illness, and uretic acid.

Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB) has been doing many research related to this insulin. As a result, it is known that insulin leaves has a lot of fructose in a quite high level so that it can be absorbed and filtered by human digestive enzyme in order to normalize the blood sugar. This is the real fact why insulin leaves are so essential and crucial to be consumed by diabetic survivors. Thus, here are health benefits of insulin plant.

1. Curing Diabetic

As its name, insulin leaves are really important and work best to cure diabetic by pressing the high level of blood sugar inside the body. High level of blood sugar is very dangerous since it can create some organs malfunction and prevent the nutrient flowing along the body. Drinking the insulin leaves boiling water will optimally work to inject the natural insulin essence to reduce the level of blood sugar.

2. Natural Prebiotic to Smooth Digestion

Insulin leaves has a lot of vitamins and complex essence which work as well as e-coli bacteria, the one which smoothen the human digestion system. Insulin leaves has high level of natural fructose to smoothen the colon function system, therefore, by drinking the herbal potion of insulin leaves will make your excretion process be smoother and better each day.

3. Anti-Bacteria

Insulin leaves also has a function as an anti-bacteria compound. When you have much problem related to your kidneys or urination process, try to consume the insulin leaves potion regularly every day. The extract of insulin leaves will kill all the bad bacteria naturally inside the urinate pipe and automatically help you to smoothen the urination process. You still need to consume much water as well.

4. Natural Anti-Oxide

Oxidation is a natural chemical reaction which can produce free radicals. Those radicals trigger some dangerous illnesses such as cancer because the body cells inside your body can be broken. That is why people are competing to get free from such radicals because it is not only dangerous for the body health but also the skin beauty.

By regularly drinking insulin leaves as the tea or coffee substitution, you can get the extra benefits of insulin leaves which struggle and beat the oxidation process inside your cells. Indeed, that’s one of the health benefits of insulin plant.

5. Liver Illness Curing

The disease which attacks your liver might come from various reasons, for an instance poison and fat stuck inside the liver. By having much fat or poison from any unhealthy lifestyle and food consuming, your liver will easily be attacked by diseases such as cancer. Routinely drink insulin leaves will help to return the health of the liver by eroding the poison to slowly out of way from the liver.

6. Kidneys Health

It is started from kidneys infection to kidneys stones which can disturb your healthy. Moreover, it can be worse by the kidney malfunction. Once you get suffer from kidney malfunctions, your kidneys can never been back into normal and you have to do blood washing procedure for the rest of your life. Thus, love your kidneys is very crucial, you may consume insulin leaves potion every day to cure the kidneys problem or just prevent the disease to come.

7. Bladder Health

Problems inside the bladder system might be stimulated by many causes. For example, viruses or lack of water consuming every single day which make you get such difficulties in doing urination. Drinking insulin leaves potion every night before going to bed will stimulate the bladder to work well and smooth the urination process so that you will have such a healthy bladder condition.

8. Blood Pressure Reducing

If your blood pressure is quite too high, the result can be so fatal. There are a lot of cases which people dead due to the hyper tense. Hyper tense can make your heart work extra hard and get your brain to have stroke. Therefore, consuming insulin leaves will help your body to reduce the hyper tense or high blood pressure. At least, you can start drinking the insulin leaves potion once in a day as a therapy.

9. Sore Throat Therapy

What’s more health benefits of insulin plant? When you get sore throat, the first thing you feel is painful and a bit itchy down there inside. Sore throat caused by the throat inflammation which usually gets along with influenza. The sensation of sore throat is very hurt that you barely hard to swallow, drink, eat, and even talk. You can consume insulin leaves potion in warm water every morning and night before going to sleep to heal the cure.

10. Cancer Prevention

Preventing is always better than curing. By consuming insulin leaves regularly, the result will as good as prevent the cancer cells inside your body. Insulin leaves has much of anti-oxide particles regularly which will struggle the free radicals that poisoning your body. One of the biggest causes of cancer is the free radicals from such unhealthy environment and food.

11. Immunity Rising

Insulin leaves has natural anti-oxide character, of which automatically increase our body immune system. By having such good and well-maintain immunity, your body will always get healthy and fit. You can start from drinking the tea or coffee you often consume every day with the extract of insulin leaves and honey. Regularly drink it day by day will make your immune system increases slightly and protect your body as well to the illness from any viruses and bacteria.

12. Cholesterol Reducing

If you are having much and high cholesterol level inside your body, you can get easily suffered from any dangerous diseases such as heart attack, stroke, and cancer. Cholesterol is the biggest enemy of the body since you don’t want to get sick due to the cholesterol stuck along your vein. Therefore, consuming insulin leaves continuously every day will help your body to remove the cholesterol comes from the food you consume which only has less nutrition and much calorie.

How To Process Insulin Leaves

From the research, it is resulted that the best way to process the insulin leaves is by boiling the leaves into water. Put attention in the following steps and description on how to make herbal medicine drink made from insulin leaves which you can get practiced at home by yourselves.

How to Make Insulin Leaves Steeping

1. Pick ten or more insulin leaves, it would be better to more since you will cut them into slices. Wash under the flowing water.
2. Cut the leaves into slices just like you cut the onions.
3. Dry under the sun, the time of drying depends on how dry the sun light is. You can check the dried leaves by squeezing it.
4. The dried leaves are ready to be steeped just like you make a cup of tea. Boil the water until it is boiling and put the insulin leaves into the glass.
5. Pour the boiling water into the glass which there is some dried insulin leaves. Wait a moment until the water inside the glass turns into brown.
6. Add honey to have more light and sweet taste. Drink regularly every day.

Consuming insulin leaves either in boiled herbal drink or steep can be done at least once in a week. It is fine if you want to consume it every day since it has no further bad side effect compared to high doses of generic medicine. After describing about making the herbal potion and steep from insulins leaves, now it is time to scrutinize the health benefits of insulin leaves for our healthy and prevent from some dangerous illnesses such as below.

How to Make Herbal Potion of Insulin Leaves

1. Pick 5-7 slices of fresh insulin leaves from the tree
2. Wash under the flowing water, gently dry it for a moment
3. Prepare a pot to boil 3-5 cups of water or 4 normal glasses.
4. Wait a moment until the water is a bit evaporated, put the leaves into the water
5. Keep boiling the water until it is boiling wait until the water reduces into about only a glass.
6. Switch off the stove and filter the insulin leaves boiled water before pouring it into the drink glass. You may also add some honey if you like.
7. Drink regularly at least once in a day or if you want to meet the herbal expert, ask him about the proper dose and drink quantity in your daily.

Insulin leaves probably start to be popular when you know well how essential and good this plant for your health. By reading the explanation above about the importance and health benefits of insulin leaves, why don’t you just start planting the plant and process the leaves as well into your daily herbal drinking from now on? Let’s get the health benefits of insulin plant.