Duck bill in Latin is known by the name of Kalanchoe pinnata Pers. The leaves are quite thick, in addition contains a lot of water, also keeps a variety of chemicals that are beneficial to health.
A health site, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, said that bufadienolides contained in the bill has antitumor duck.
Research conducted by Supratman and his colleagues from the Applied Biochemistry Division, Osaka Prefecture University in Sakai, Japan, showed that the isolation of five bufadienolides of leaf duck bill has the effect of inhibiting the activation of early antigen Epstein-Barr virus (EBV-EA) in Raji cells that caused by the tumor.
