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es, promote the peristalsis (successive waves of involuntarycontraction passing along the walls intestines) and forcing thecontents onward of the stomach and intestines, reduce the secretionof the bronchus and alleviate spasms of the bronchus.3. Its active ingredients contain perillaldehyde, which canraise the blood sugar.
4. The water decoction of purple perilla leaves containsessential oil which can inhibit colibacillus, shigella dysenteriaeor staphylococcus.
For self protection, the outer skin (bark) of many plantscontains essential oil, which in turn has elements that serve as animmediate chemical defense against herbivores and pathogens. How?There is an element called hydroxynitrile glucoside in essentialoil. This element will release toxic hydrogen cyanide by endogenousplant glucosidase upon tissue disruption (see Anne Vinther Morant,Kirsten Jorgensen, Charlotte Jorgensen, Suzanne Michelle Paquette,Raquel Sanchez-Perez, Birger Lindberg Moller, and Soren Bak,"beta-Glucosidases as Detonators of Plant Chemical Defense, "Phytochemistry Vol. 69, Issue 9 (June 2008), pp. 1, 795-1,813).
Glucosidase is a catalyzing enzyme that improves healthyfunctions of our body. It is a lipase that decomposes fat; it canalso check inflammation and improve memory (see Mikako Sakurai,Masayuki Sekiguchi, Ko Zushida, Kazuyuki Yamada, Satoshi Nagamine,Tomohiro Kabuta and Keiji Wada, "Reduction in memory in passiveavoidance learning, exploratory behaviour and synaptic plasticityin mice with a spontaneous deletion in the ubiquitin C-terminalhydrolase L1 gene, " European Journal of Neuroscience Vol. 27,Issue 3 (February 2008), pp. 691-701).
