Info 4: Bunga Lawang untuk anti-virus H1N1

 Bunga lawang/Star anise (english)

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Scientific
Kingdom:
Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:  Austrobaileyales
Family:
Illiciaceae
Genus:
Illicium
Species:
I. verum

Binomial name
Illicium verum
Hook.f.

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Saya dapat tahu daripada doktor pusat kesihatan USM bahawa Bunga Lawang
digunakan untuk membuat ubat Tamilflu iaitu anti-virus untuk H1N1.
Jadi saya buat sedikit kajian dan mendapati bahawa ia adalah benar - sila
rujuk kepada Lampiran pdf.

Isteri saya terus beli bunga lawang (50sen sepeket), rebus dan paksa semua
orang minum - rasa payau.

Satu keajaiban adalah antara kesemua mangsa maut H1N1 di Malaysia, tiada
satu pun dari kalangan kaum India..... Ini mungkin kerana kaum India
mengamalkan penggunaan bunga lawang secara meluas dalam masakan mereka.

Semoga boleh kita amalkan
(Nanti harga bunga lawang melambung)

Shahrom
PPSains Fizik
USM

p/s: lepas ni bleh laa banyak2an masakan dengan guna bunga lawang..



 Lampiran yang dier ckp tadi > rujuk bawah


Usages

Culinary

Star anise contains anethole, the same ingredient which gives the unrelated anise its flavor.
Recently, star anise has come into use in the West as a less expensive substitute for anise in
baking as well as in liquor production, most distinctively in the production of the liquor
Galliano.

Medicinal

Star anise has been used in a tea as a remedy for rheumatism, and the seeds are sometimes

chewed after meals to aid digestion. As a warm and moving herb, Ba Jiao is used to assist in

relieving cold‐stagnation in the middle jiao, according to TCM.

Shikimic acid, a primary feedstock used to create the anti‐flu drug Tamiflu, is produced

by most autotrophic organisms, but star anise is the industrial source. In 2005, there

was a temporary shortage of star anise due to its use in making Tamiflu. Late in that

year, a way was found of making shikimic acid artificially. Roche now derives some of

the raw material it needs from fermenting E. coli bacteria. The 2009 swine flu (H1N1)

outbreak led to another series of shortages as stocks of Tamiflu were built up around

the world, sending prices soaring.[1]

Star anise is grown in four provinces in China and harvested between March and May. Its also

found in the south of New South Wales. The shikimic acid is extracted from the seeds in a ten‐

stage manufacturing process which takes a year. Reports say 90% of the harvest is already used

by the Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer Roche in making Tamiflu, but other reports say

there is an abundance of the spice in the main regions ‐ Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and

Yunnan.

Japanese star anise (Illicium anisatum), a similar tree, is not edible because it is highly toxic

(due to containing sikimitoxin); instead, it has been burned as incense in Japan. Cases of illness,

including may inflammation.

Notes
1. ^ Louisa Lim, "Swine Flu Bumps Up Price Of Chinese Spice", NPR, 18 May 2009 
2. ^
Botanical nomenclature".
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=4844.
Retrieved 8 June 2009. 
3. ^
Adulterant Illicium anisatum Linn. by Fluorescent Microscopy and Gas Chromatography". Journal
of
15492355. http://www.atypon‐link.com/AOAC/doi/abs/10.5555/jaoi.2005.88.3.703. Retrieved
10
4. ^
Rational
(American
5. ^ International Organization for Standardization. "ISO 11178:1995 Star anise (Illicium verum
Hook. f.) ‐‐ Specification". http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=19183.
Retrieved 8 June 2009. 
6. ^
. "GB/T 7652‐2006
". http://www.chinaios.com/BZ‐
shuju/standshow.asp?table=gbtwo&id=18357.