typical Indonesian medicinal plants ( 1 )

As a tropical country that has the largest area of ​​tropical forests, Indonesia is also rich in plants that can cure various diseases. In Indonesian medicinal plants commonly called the "Herbal". To recognize the medicinal plants, of which the following is.


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Wild Ginger (Curcuma Roxb xanthorhiza) were included in the ginger family (Zingiberaceae), Wild Ginger is a medicinal plant native to Indonesia. The spread of the plant Curcuma However, many grown on the island of Java, the Moluccas and Kalimantan. Characteristics of Wild Ginger grows as a shrub without the stem. Starting from the base of the petiole has a long standing upright. Plant height between 2 m / s to 2.5 m. Long leaves are round like a banana leaf where the stem leaves close to each other to form the stem. These plants can be grown in the fertile lowland with an altitude of 750 m above sea level, this plant can be harvested after 8-12 months with traits such as leaf yellowing want to die. Tubers will grow at the base of the stem is dark yellow or light brown with a diameter of 15 cm length and 6 cm, it smells a little spicy and a little bitter. turmeric has long been used for generations by our ancestors to treat jaundice, diarrhea, heartburn, bloating and fatigue.

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Benefits of Turmeric Medicinal Plants. Turmeric is a medicinal plant and is an annual shrub (perennial) scattered throughout the tropics. Plant and wild turmeric thrives around the forest / former garden. Thought to originate from Binar at an altitude of 1300-1600 m above sea level, there is also a saying that turmeric comes from India. In Java, turmeric is widely used as a medicinal herb because efficacious soothing, cleaning, drying, relieves itching, and tingling cure. The main benefits of the turmeric plant, namely: as a traditional medicinal materials, industrial raw materials and cosmetic herbs, spices ingredient, farms etc.. Besides, the rhizome of the turmeric plant is also useful as an anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-microbial, preventing cancer, anti-tumor, and lower levels of blood fats and cholesterol, as well as a blood purifier.

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Bitter (Andrographis paniculata), is a kind of herbaceous plants in the family Acanthaceae, which originated in India and Sri Lanka. Sambiloto can also be found in other regions, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, as well as some places in the Americas. Andrographis genus has 28 species of herbs, but only a few are medically efficacious, one of which is Andrographis paniculata (bitter). Many bitter leaf contains compounds Andrographolide, which is a bicyclic diterpenoid lactone compound. Bitter chemical compound was first isolated by Gorter on tahun1911. Andrographolide has liver protecting properties (hepatoprotective), and proven to protect the liver from negative effects galaktosamin and paracetamol. These properties are closely related to the activity of certain metabolic enzymes. Sambiloto has long been known to have medical properties. Ayurveda is one of the ancient Indian system of medicine which includes bitter as a medical herb, which is called by the name bitter Kalmegh on Ayurveda. In addition to protecting the heart nutritious, bitter also can suppress the growth of cancer cells. This is due to the active compound, namely Andrographolide, lower enzyme expression CDK4 (cyclin-dependent kinase 4).

one popular kind of processed food with basic ingredients"JENGKOL"

in Indonesian society, jengkol is a food that has a lot of fans. Jengkol can be processed into various dishes are very tempting. One of which is processed into rendang jengkol.
Here's one way to cook rendang jengkol are nauseated.

Jengkol or Jering not gained a good read is typical of West Sumatra, more specifically the typical Padang Minang, because steady rendang spices and delicious like soupy thick rendang dried savory meat or eggs, that's the difference with jengkol spicy stew seasoning recipes, coconut milk to remove visible oil in the original image made ​​friends who did the original Padang Pariaman happen to sell online on facebook and youtube videos. This article also gives tips for rendang jengkol no odor or smell the old jengkol election soaked 2 days, then boiled until soft or padded. Approximately recipe like this according to him is not lost with rendang jengkol Betawi in Jakarta.

MATERIALS:
300 grams Jengkol Jering old, soaked 2 days, boiled until tender and minced
1,000 ml coconut milk from 1 coconut
1 sheet of turmeric leaf, cut into 2-3 parts
4 pieces of lime leaves, torn
1 stalk lemongrass, crushed
1 fruit acids kandis
1 3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon granulated sugar

SMOOTH SPICE:
15 red chilies if you want to make use jengkol spicy hot peppers and add numbers
10 grains of red onion
5 cloves of garlic
2 cm galangal
2 cm ginger
5 grains hazelnut
2 cm turmeric

HOW GOOD COOKING rendang jengkol:
Boil coconut milk, turmeric leaf, lime leaves, and lemongrass to a boil.
Enter kandis smooth flavor and acid.
Cook until boiling coconut milk and reduce the flame.
Enter jengkol. Cook, stirring frequently until dry and overcooked. Lift.

Benefit of "JENGKOL" for our health

dog fruit in Indonesia called jengkol (Archidendron pauciflorum) is a typical plant in the Southeast Asian region, the seeds are liked by people as food. Jengkol including the tribe of legumes (Fabaceae). The fruit is a flattened pod and convoluted form a spiral shape, violet-colored old. Epidermis thin-skinned fruit seeds with shiny brown color. Jengkol can cause odor in urine after being processed and processed by digestion, especially when eaten fresh as a salad

Food is commonly used as vegetables does smell bad enough, but many people who are fond of vegetables on this one. Jengkol is kind of vegetables can also be eaten more menu for lovers jengkol. Jengkol for health benefits is not yet widely known.

Many people underestimate jengkol because if too much eating jengkol it will cause disease. Besides the smell makes some people reluctant to touch for fear jengkol create body odor and bad breath become unpleasant.

Jengkol actually have a high fiber content and also contain jengkolat acids, vitamins and minerals. Jengkol also is a diuretic so as to facilitate the disposal of urine and very good for people with coronary heart disease. Because of its very good in helping to treat digestive problems, then jengkol ranks second as a material other than apple slimming stomach.

Jengkol other benefits for health is the ability to prevent and treat diabetes. This is because jengkol has acid content and high mineral. But unfortunately, jengkolat acids that exist in this jengkol have insoluble and form crystals that cause negative effects if you eat them in excess. In many cases, jengkolat acid causing small bowel obstruction if consumed excessively jengkol because the kidneys are unable to filter the amount of acid that goes for having passed the threshold should be.

Jengkol rich in nutrients such as carbohydrates, vitamin A, vitamin B, protein, calcium, phosphorus, steroids, tannins, saponins and glycosides. And it's not only the amount of vitamin C in jengkol can boost our immune, and help enzymes work in our body and helps cellular respiration. Calcium contained in jengkol help bone growth of the bones in the body to grow and become stronger.

For adults calcium alone to help care for bone health to avoid the vulnerability or ostioforosis bone. Jengkol other benefits of preventing disease anemia or anemia.

Health Living with Purple Mangosteen

The purple mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana), colloquially known simply as mangosteen, is a tropical evergreen tree believed to have originated in the Sunda Islands and the Moluccas of Indonesia. It grows mainly in Southeast Asia, and also in tropical South American countries such as Colombia, in the state of Kerala in India and in Puerto Rico,^[1] where the tree has been introduced. The tree grows from 6 to 25 m (19.7 to 82.0 ft) tall.^[2] The fruitof the mangosteen is sweet and tangy, juicy, somewhat fibrous, with fluid-filled vesicles (like the flesh of citrus fruits), with an inedible, deep reddish-purple colored rind (exocarp) when ripe. In each fruit, the fragrant edible flesh that surrounds each seed is botanically endocarp, i.e., the inner layer of the ovary.^[3][4]Seeds are almond-shaped and sized.

The purple mangosteen belongs to the same genus as the other, less widely known, mangosteens, such as the button mangosteen (G. prainiana) or the charichuelo (G. madruno).

75 Benefits of mangosteen's skin for health.

Skin benefits of mangosteen is currently the most widely sought after and used to be used as an alternative medicine of various diseases, as well as used in beauty matters. It turns out the mangosteen fruit that tastes good and contains a lot of benefits, has the fact that his skin was the one that has more benefits. 

Skin Mangosteen xanthone-containing compounds have currently been developed and produced in the form of a syrup, which was then known as xanthones syrup. This syrup is very terkeenal because it contains antioxidants that can fight free radicals. Some studies show that these compounds have properties as an antidiabetic, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal, antiplasmodial, and boost immunity. 

The benefits of mangosteen peel is quoted from detik.com there are about 75 benefits that can be obtained from mangosteen peel, if we routinely drink. Provided painstaking maximum results we will definitely get, including: 

For a complete Body Health: 

1 Strengthen the immune system. 

2 Heal inflammation. 

3 Improving communication between cells. 

4 Fails the DNA damage. 

5. aids lymphatic system. 

6 Maintaining optimal thyroid function. 

7 Reducing insulin resistance. 

8 Helps weight loss. 

9 Healing nerve damage. 

10 Balances the endocrine system. 

11. tools of the synergy of the body. 

12. Relieve hemorrhoids. 

13. Helps lower blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia). 

14. Relieve reddish skin disease / scaly (psoriasis). 

15. Helps heal wounds. 

16. Relieve pain from carpal tunnel syndrome (a disease that occurs in the wrist and fingers caused by pressure that often occurs in the section. And usually often caused by overuse of the keyboard and mouse). 

17. Eliminate chronic scaly dry skin diseases (neurodermatitis). Anti-inflammatory properties of mangosteen may reduce the scales and itching in skin diseases. 

For Heart Health: 

18. Helps prevent heart disease. 

19. Strengthen blood vessels. 

20. Lowering LDL cholesterol. 

21. Lowering high blood pressure. 

22. Helps prevent arteriosclerosis. 

Digestive Health: 

23. Helps overcome GERD disease (chronic disease characterized by the flow of stomach acid into the esophagus). 

24. Helps heal ulcers / sores. 

25. Relieve bowel syndrome (IBS). 

26. Helps stop diarrhea. 

27. can relieve inflammation of small or large intestine known as Crohn`s disease. 

28. could prevent one of the inflammatory bowel disease (diverticulitis). 

Make More Younger: 

29. Increase energy, enhance the excitement and increase stamina. 

30 Slowing the aging process. 

31. Helps prevent deterioration of the brain (dementia & Alzheimer's). 

32. Helps prevent kidney stones. 

33. Helps prevent nervous system diseases (Parkinson's). 

34. Relieves pain of arthritis. 

35 Fixing the damage from the use of painkillers (NSAIDs). 

36. equipment for the eyes. 

Family Health: 

37. Lowers fever. 

38. Overcoming food poisoning. 

39. Heal the wounds of the throat. 

40 Helps heal canker sores. 

41. Overcoming shortness of breath. 

42. Helps reduce the migrant (the headaches). 

43. Reduces toothache. 

44. natural sleep aids. 

45 Improving the ability to cope with stess. 

46. ​​Improve mood and reduce depression. 

47. Aids muscles and joints. 

48. Eliminate acne and blemishes on the skin. 

49. Eliminate bite marks, burns and poisoning. 

50 Relieve sprain, strain muscles and joints. 

51. Relieve abdominal pain. 

52. Relieve sore throat (bronchitis), emphysema (emphysema), and inflammation of the lungs (pneumonia). 

53. Working as painkillers tightness / clogged nasal (decongestant). 

Men's Health: 

54. Helps prevent infertility. 

55 Helps prevent prostate enlargement. 

Women's Health: 

56. Relieve difficulty urinating. 

57. As a gentle laxative. 

58. Minimizing pain symptoms prior to menstruation (PMS). 

59. Relieve symptoms of menopause. 

60 Decrease swelling during menstruation. 

61. meringkan pain in muscles, ligaments, or tendons (fibromyalgia). 

62. Relieve pain from the disease decreased bone density / calcification of the bones (osteoporosis). 

Children's Health: 

63. Helping meringkan asthma. 

64 May prevent hyperactive and attention deficit disorder (ADHD) and food allergy. 

Form 65 teeth and bones stronger. 

Overcoming Disease: 

66 Preventing gum disease. 

67. eradicate tuberculosis. 

68. Reduce lactose intolerance side effects. 

69. Helps prevent dysentery. 

70 Helps prevent diseases of the central nervous system (multiple sclerosis). 

71. can prevent cancer. 

72. Relieve chronic inflammatory disease (chronic inflammation) that attacks the spinal structures and especially of the hip joint (Ankylosing Spondylitis). 

73. Helps prevent lung infections and chronic respiratory (cyctic fibrosis). 

74. Prevent symptoms associated with lupus disease. 

75 Reducing disease severe muscle weakness (Myasthenia Gravis). 

While the processing methods Mangosteen Skin or simple syrup xanthones are as follows: Wash the fruit skin, then cut the fruit grain leather 2. Furthermore, the pieces are boiled in 4 cups of water, so that the remaining 2 cups. Filtered cooking water that is drunk regularly 2-3 times a day. For other ways you can read in How to Make Skin Mangosteen Juice. 

Just a warning only if Skin Mangosteen also contains levels of resin, tannin, crude fiber, and other components that can not be digested at high levels. So often appears the case from consuming mangosteen rind in the form of flour without good treatment, such as the Health Disorders Kidney and intestine as well as in other organs, if such cases appear immediately hantikan use and consult a doctor. You should consume the finished syrup xanthones and existing label production permit and approved by health authorities. Hopefully the above benefits of mangosteen skin, could be useful. Greetings healthy always.

note :
in Indonesian mangosteen prices currently range between US$ 1,5 to US$ 2 / kilogram