Edi Suherman went to Valentina's practice room. “When he came his heart condition was not good, his blood pressure was high, and he suffered from gout.
Edi also complained of dizziness and fast heart palpitations,” said Valentina. According to the herbalist, an alumnus of Parahyangan Catholic University, Edi looks weak, restless, and tense. Valentina then gave various herbs such as soursop leaves, tapak dara leaves, turmeric rhizomes, temulawak rhizomes, and mulberry leaves.
"Soursop leaves function as antioxidants, other herbs will strengthen all organs of the body so that the immune system increases and disease weakens," said Valentina. Valentina's statement was strengthened by research by R. Baskar from the Department of Biology, Kumaraguru College of Technology, India which stated that 500 g/ml ethanolic extract of soursop leaves had antioxidant activity of 72-90%.
Edi consumes the potion in powder form. Every day he boils a bag of powder in 600 ml or two glasses of water until it boils and the remaining one cup. He then filtered and drank the stew. Frequency of consumption twice a day each glass. Within a month of taking the potion, the 45-year-old man improved, complaints of dizziness, anxiety and restlessness, and heart palpitations were much reduced. Last checkup in July 2011, blood pressure dropped to 160 mmHg. Apart from being in powder form, graviola leaves can also be consumed in standardized herbal extracts packaged in capsules, such as Gravica, Gravila, and Gravia products.
Besides being efficacious in overcoming hypertension, soursop leaves are also proven to be effective in treating diabetes mellitus and lowering cholesterol levels in the blood. David Olawale, Omobola Aderibigbe, and Olarinde Stephen from the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, proved that Annona muricata leaf extract overcomes diabetes. They divided 30 experimental mice with body weight of 150-250 g each into three groups.
The first group was a nondiabetic control group; the second group, rats with diabetes and without treatment with soursop leaf extract. The third group of rats suffering from diabetes was given soursop leaf extract. David gave injections of steptozotocin which had been dissolved in 0.1 M sodium citrate with a pH of 6.3 to the second and third groups. The dose is 80 mg per kg body weight of rats. Steptozotocin induces hyperglycemia in mice, which could be a suitable model for type II diabetes in humans.
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