Connect Lives
(Gynura Procumbens Backer.)

Tribe: Asteraceae (Compositae).
Simplisia Name: Gynura Procumbens Folium (leaf continued life).

Description
Connect life generally planted in the garden as a medicinal plant.
Native plants Myanmar and China. In Java can be found from 1-500 m above sea level.
stems upright or the base resting on the ground and out of roots, trunked wet, forked, orange, up to 6 m long, fragrant. Leaves single, rather thick, easily broken, stemmed, where the turns. Leaf blade oval to elongated, pointed tip and base, the edge was jagged, bone-pinnate, light green. continued life rarely flowering. If anything, the yellow orange flowers, double pairs.
Connect the lives of ordinary eaten raw. Easily propagated by cuttings.

The Nature and Benefits
Leaf life continued to be cold, slightly toxic, efficacious hipotensif, inflammatory, and blood circulation.
Essential oil, saponins, flavonoids.

Part used
Leaves and stems

How to Use
For drugs taken, boiled or brewed fresh leaf sheets 7-12.
For external use only, minced fresh leaves until smooth. Spread on a sore place, such as ulcers.