Flu Drugs Natural / Traditional Medicines Colds

Commonly known as flu or colds disease, an infectious disease caused by the virus. Sick with the flu / common cold occurs when cold air, drinking too much ice, exhausted, in the rain or it could be because of lack of sleep. Although not dangerous, but the flu can be very disruptive if allowed to continue. For that, it would be better if the patient immediately to treat it. Can the use of modern drugs, or are strongly advised to use natural cold medicine is guaranteed safe. Special to the traditional cold medicine, please see the option consists in detail below.

- Analgesics: Blumea leaf (Blumea balsamifera), papaya (Caricapapaya), clove (Syzygium aromaticum), turmeric (Curcumadomestica), and rhizome kencur (Kaempferia galanga).

- Antipyretics: pieces of cardamom (Amomum cardamomum), belimbingmanis fruit (Averrhoa carambola), fruit starfruit (Averrhoa bilimbi), bangle rhizome (Zingiber cassumunar), leaves of grass jelly (Cyclea barbata) and duck Cocor leaf (Kalanchoe pinnata).

- Stomakik: celery (Apium graveolens), bitter leaf (Andrographispanicul ata), ginger rhizome (Curcuma xanthorrhiza), grass jelly (Cycleabarbata), and the fruit of bitter melon (Momordica charantia).

- Roboransia: thorn spinach leaves (Amaranthus spinosus), rimpangkencur (Kaempferia galanga), pace the fruit (Morinda citrifolia), danbuah bitter melon (Momordica charantia).

Of course the process of healing through natural cold remedies are not as fast as when you take a modern cold medicines. We must be patient and routine to get maximum results. However, do not forget that cold medicine is clearly more secure than traditional synthetic chemical drugs. This also applies to traditional and other cough medicines.

Now, all the choice is yours and every choice there are consequences of each. However, we still recommend that the visitors of this site would rather use natural cold medicine than modern medicine. Because in addition to long-term factor of safety reasons, the traditional cold medicines are much cheaper atu free even if we want to find in the neighborhood.

Just posting this so many times, may be beneficial to all of the above article. Regards ...

Hazards in Food Ingredients Formalin

Mie without content Formalin can only survive 12 hours, while the noodles with Formalin can last up to three days without a change in texture.

According to several manufacturers, the use of borax in the manufacture of noodles will produce a more chewy texture. Meanwhile, the use of formalin will produce a more durable noodles, which can be stored up to 4 days.

What is Formaldehyde?

Formalin is a trade name with a solution of formaldehyde in water content of 30-40 percent. In the market, can be obtained in the form of formalin was diluted, with levels formaldehidnya 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent and in the form of tablets each weighing about 5 grams.

Formalin is a solution that is colorless and the smell was terrible. In the formalin contained about 37% formaldehyde in water. Usually up to 15% methanol added as a preservative.

Formalin is usually traded in the market with different names, among others: formol, Morbicid, Methanal, formic aldehyde, methyl oxide, Oxymethylene, methylene aldehyde, Oxomethane, Formoform, Formalith, Karsan, methylene glycol, Paraforin, Polyoxymethylene glycols, Superlysoform, Tetraoxymethylene, Trioxane.

Use of Formalin

Killer germs that used for cleaning: floors, boats, warehouses, and clothing.

Buster flies and various other insects.

Materials in the manufacture of artificial silk, dyes, glass mirror, and explosives.

In the world of photography is usually used for amplifying layer of gelatin and paper.

Material in the form of urea fertilizer.

Materials for the manufacture of perfume products.

Preservative cosmetics products and nail hardener.

Prevention of corrosion to oil wells.

Materials for foam insulation.

Adhesives for plywood products (plywood).

Pembalsam fluids (preservative corpse).

In a very small concentration (<1%) was used as a preservative for a variety of consumer goods such as household cleaners, liquid dish pemcuci, softener, nurse shoes, car shampoo, wax and carpet cleaning.

The use of formalin is wrong is very regrettable. Through a number of surveys and laboratory examination, found a number of food products that use formaldehyde as a preservative.

Practices such as this one do food producers or managers who are not responsible. Some examples of products that often contain formaldehyde such as fresh fish, chicken pieces, wet noodle and tofu on the market. To remember, not all food products containing formaldehyde.

Legal Basis

The legal basis for prohibiting the use of formalin in which Law No. 7 / 1996 on Food and the Law No. 8 / 1999 on Consumer Protection.

Formalin and metahnyl yellow is food additives (BTP), which prohibited its use in food by regulations of the Minister of Health (Minister) Number 1168/Menkes/PER/X/1999.

Government Regulation No. 28 of 2004 on the Safety, Quality and Food Nutrition.

Why should watch out

Formalin is toxic and harmful to human health. If the obstetrician in the body height, will react chemically with almost all substances in cells so that pressing the function of cells and causes cell death that causes toxicity in the body.

In addition, a high content of formaldehyde in the body also causes stomach irritation, allergy, are carcinogenic (causing cancer) and are mutagenic (causing changes in the function of cells / tissue), as well as people who eat them will vomit, diarrhea mixed with blood, urine mixed with blood, and deaths caused by circulatory failure.

Formalin when evaporated in air, in the form of a colorless gas, with a sharp suffocating odor, thus stimulating the nose, throat, and eyes.

Formalin Impact on Human Health

Acute: effects on human health directly visible: such as irritation, allergy, redness, watery eyes, nausea, vomiting, burning sensation, abdominal pain and dizziness

Chronic: effects on human health seen after exposure in the long term and repetitive: the possible severe irritation, watery eyes, digestive disorders, liver, kidney, pancreas, central nervous system, menstruation and in animal studies to cause cancer in humans, while allegedly carcinogen (causes cancer). Consuming foods that contain formaldehyde, the side effects seen after long-term, due to the accumulation of formaldehyde in the body.

if consumed by humans, formaldehyde can cause irritation to the respiratory tract, interfere with liver function, kidney and reproductive system

According Winarno and Rahayu (1994), the use of formaldehyde in foods can cause poisoning in human body. Symptoms commonly include difficulty swallowing timbut, acute abdominal pain accompanied by vomiting, bloody diarrhea, depression onset nervous system, or circulatory disorders.

Consumption of formaldehyde at very high doses can cause convulsions (seizures), haematuri (urinating blood), and haimatomesis (vomiting blood), which ended with the death

Formalin or formaldehyde solution (formaldehyde), which is usually for preservative corpse, its use in food in high doses will cause irritation of the stomach, cause cancer, kidney failure, liver, spleen and tissue damage.

How to Detect

Detection of formaldehyde and borax can only be done accurately in the laboratory using chemicals, namely through the formalin test and the test of borax. Formalin threshold levels that can be tolerated by the body is 0.2 milligrams per kilogram of body weight.

The characteristics of food products containing formaldehyde

Know that looks very nice, chewy, not crumbly, lasting several days and not easily rot.

Wet noodle lasting several days and not perishable compared to that does not contain formalin.

White chicken clean, durable and not easily rot.

Wet fish that clean white color, chewy, dark red gills instead of fresh red, lasting up to several days and not easily rot.

Tips on choosing to know

Know that contain formalin can be marked with:

The higher content of formaldehyde, the smell of the drug sting, while knowing no berformalin will smell the distinctive odor of soy protein;

Know who has the nature of the bouncy berformalin (if pressed felt very chewy), whereas no berformalin know if pressed would be destroyed;

Berformalin know will last longer, while most only berformalin not hold one or two days.

Know who use artificial coloring can be characterized by looking at its appearance. If you know the use of artificial coloring, the color is very homogeneous / uniform and shiny appearance. Meanwhile, if using turmeric dye, the color tends to be opaque (not clear). If we cut him, it would seem the inside color is not homogeneous / uniform. In fact, there are some still white.

First aid in case of acute poisoning

Relief depends on the concentration of liquids and symptoms experienced by victims.

Prior to hospital: give activated charcoal (Norit) when available. Do not do stimulate vomiting in the victim because it would pose a risk of corrosive injury to upper gastrointestinal tract.

In the hospital: do rinse the stomach (gastric lavage), give activated charcoal (activated carbon, although the provision would interfere with vision if the action later endoscopy). To diagnose the occurrence of trauma to the esophagus and gastrointestinal endoscopy can be taken. To improve the elimination of formaldehyde from the body can be done hemodyalisis (action dialysis), dialysis is an indication of action in case of severe state of metabolic acidosis on the victim.

By: Dr. Handy, PT Clinic. Astra International Tbk

CAUTION !!!!!! Borax In Our Food

Consuming foods containing borax did not sertamerta adverse effects on health. But a little borax will be absorbed in the body in a cumulative consumer.

Other than through the digestive tract, borax can also be absorbed through the skin. Borax are absorbed in the body is stored cumulatively in the liver, brain, and testes (testicles).

Power toksitasnya is acute LD-50 4.5 to 4.98 g / kg body weight (rats). In high dosisi, borax in the human body can cause dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and others.

In small children and babies, as many as 5 grams of borax in the body can cause death. While deaths in adults occur if the dose reached 10-20 grams or more.

Borax is a sodium salt is widely used in various non-food industry, particularly the paper industry, glass, wood preservatives, and ceramics. He is colorless and easily soluble in water.

Just so you know, strong-known pyrex glass which could have a performance like that because it is made with a mixture of borax. Most likely caused by the preservative borax boric acid compound active.

Boric acid (H3BO3) is a weak organic acid that is often used as an antiseptic, and can be made by adding sulfuric acid (H2SO4) or hydrochloric acid (HCl) in borax.

Boric acid is also often used in medicine and cosmetics. For example, a solution of boric acid in water (3%) is used as an eyewash and is known as boorwater.

Boric acid is also used as a gargle, nasal sprays, and ointments minor injuries. But, remember, this material should not be drunk or used in the wound area, because the toxic when absorbed into the body.

Crackers Gendar

Ironically, borax has long used the people of Indonesia for the manufacture of raw materials gendar rice, or crackers gendar. Javanese people used to call character or plate. Water bleng (pijer) used in making this a true character or gendar is borax. So, borax present in the diet, even including one of our favorite foods.

Not only gendar, borax are also widely used for other food industries, such as the manufacture of noodles, rice cake, rice cake, meatball, and even ketchup. That said, making noodles and macaroni factories also use pure boric acid made in the pharmaceutical industry.

In pure form is not, in fact borax has been produced since 1700, in the form of water bleng. YLKI through Consumer News (1991) reported that approximately 86.49 percent of the wet noodle samples taken in Yogyakarta, Semarang, and Surabaya containing boric acid (borax). Then 76.9 percent of wet noodles containing borax and formaldehyde together!

YLKI also reported the existence of borax in a variety of snacks in South Jakarta. Though the Government has banned the use of borax as of July 1979, and strengthened through the Minister of Health Decree No. 733/Menkes/Per/IX/1988.

Meatball borax

As described above, some meatballs on the market also contain borax. But we can distinguish between the meatballs that contain borax or not.

Meatball containing borax is more chewy than the meatballs without borax. If bitten by going back into shape. He is also durable and lasting up to several days.

The color is more white. Unlike the meatballs without borax is gray and evenly on all parts.

If still in doubt, try pieces of meatball into the floor. If the ball bounces like bekel, meaning it contains borax meatballs.

While making the meatballs do not have to use various chemicals. Meatball can be generated by either without the use of borax.

We could use a safer preservatives, such as potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, carrageenan, or calcium propionate. (Susiana, professor of Biology, Faculty of Science Undip-32)