How to Treat Hemorrhoids with Purple Leaves (Graptophyllum Pictum)

Hemorrhoids is one of the diseases that many people suffer from. Both adults and children. Although it is not a dangerous disease, if left without treatment then the condition can become severe, the state of our body becomes uncomfortable, and if not immediately overcome can lead to surgery. This disease generally can be treated naturally with herbs, one of the herbs that have been proven is with purple leaves.

Purple leaf or graptophyllum pictum is a herbaceous plant that is a plant that lives all year round that can grow up to 2 meters, stemmed aerial and upright, woody, cylindrical, and has sympodial branches. The leaves are single-faced, ovoid with pointed ends and tapered bases, dark purple with a length of 8–25 cm and a width of 5–11 cm. While the flowers are compound and appear from the end of the stem. The fruit of purple leaves is capsule-shaped and elliptical, brownish purple, while the seed shape is round white.

The spread of this plant is quite wide, according to K. Heyne (1987) in his book entitled Useful Plants Indonesia, this plant comes from Papua Island, which is found also on the island of Java and Maluku island (Indonesia), this plant can grow in lowland areas up to an altitude of 1,250 meters above sea level, as well as in open places and exposed to direct sunlight with a dry and humid climate.

Purple leaves are one of the medicinal plants that are maintained as ornamental plants in the yard of the house that is widely used by the people of Indonesia. This plant contains a variety of chemical compounds, including alkaloids, saponins, tannins, glycosides, flavonoids, and alcohol. Purple leaves are also believed by the public as medicinal plants that are efficacious as anti-inflammatory, oxytocic and anti-implantation, antidiabetic, antioxidant, and estrogenic.

Utilization of purple leaves traditionally in some areas in Indonesia including to treat stomach ulcers, earaches, constipation, ambient, bruising, mute, relieve gout, fever, launch the menstrual cycle and urinate, destroy kidney stones, normalize the size of the uterus, clean the uterus from white blood, stimulate the production of breast milk, and reduce weight.

The active ingredients of compounds contained in purple leaves (graptophyllum pictum) are flavonoid compounds, steroids, saponins, tannins, and alkaloids that will help to relieve the symptoms of hemorrhoids. The way to process purple leaves as hemorrhoids medicine is to boil as much as 9-10 grams of fresh purple leaves in 2 glasses of water (600 cc) until it becomes 1 glass of decoction and taken regularly every day 1 time and done for five days in a row, then the effects caused by hemorrhoid symptoms such as pain, bleeding, and heat will disappear without a tear

In addition to treatment with purple leaves, people with hemorrhoids are also advised to implement a healthy lifestyle that is by eating fibrous foods, increasing body fluid intake, maintaining the cleanliness of the anus, and not delaying defecation, and do not eat spicy foods, to speed up the healing process.