Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

typical Indonesian medicinal plants ( 3 )

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Blimbing Wuluh menyebuhkanGusi bloody  Eating fruit starfruit either fresh or candied regular basis every day  Two starfruit fruit eaten each day Blimbing Wuluh as Mumps  Drug handheld half starfruit leaves pounded with garlic 3. Kompreskan in part and mumps.  10 young twigs following starfruit leaves and 4 red onions after washed and finely ground. Apply some place sick. Blimbing Wuluh as Rheumatism  Drug handful of leaves starfruit washed mash until smooth add whiting rub to the sick.  100 gr of young leaves starfruit 10 seeds 15 peppercorns, cloves and washed and finely ground secukup add vinegar until it becomes dough like mush. Spread batter slurry was some place sick.  5 pieces starfruit 8 leaves of magnolia (Michelia Champaca L.) seeds 15 cloves 15 black pepper grains are washed and finely kneaded with 2 tablespoons lime juice and 1 tablespoon of eucalyptus oil. Used For rubbing and massaging sore parts of the body. Do it 2-3 times a day. Blimbing Wuluh as Sprue Drug  10 flowers starfruit tamarind, palm sugar boiled with 3 cups of water to stay 3/4 filtered drinking water 2 times a day.  Segenggarn starfruit flower secukup sugar and 1 cup boiling water until thick. After chilling filtered used to clean and lubricate the mouth thrush.  2/3 handheld flowers starfruit washed and boiled with 3 cups water until remaining 2 1/4 cups. After chilling filtered and drunk 3/4 cup 3 times a day. 3 pieces starfruit 3 red onions 1 nutmeg which 10 young thrush leaves 3/4 teaspoon fennel 3/4 finger pulosari washed and finely crushed with 3 tablespoons of coconut oil is squeezed and filtered. Used For greasing the wounds caused by canker sores 6-7 times a day. Blimbing Wuluh as Toothache Medication  Five starfruit fruit after washed chewed with salt. Repeat several times until the pain disappeared. Blimbing Wuluh as Pagel rheumatic Drugs  One handheld starfruit leaves that are still young 10 15 cloves finely ground pepper and add vinegar to taste. Smear some place Blimbing Wuluh pain as Panu  Ten Relievers fruit starfruit washed and finely ground for whiting add tamarind seeds kneaded until smooth. This herb is used to rub the skin For skin fungus that attacked. Apply 2 times a day.

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Beluntas an upright shrubs, woody, much branched, with height can reach two meters. Single leaf, round egg shape, pointed tip, downy, yellowish green young leaves and old after a long and pale green leaves 3.8 to 6.4 cm. It grows wild in the soil with high humidity; in some places in West Java this plant is used as a hedge plant and the barrier between the ridges on the estate. Some areas in Indonesia the name beluntas with different names like baluntas (Madura), Luntas (Central Java), and Lamutasa (Makassar). Traditionally used as a medicinal leaf beluntas to eliminate body odor, medications down the heat, cough, and diarrhea. Beluntas leaves that have been boiled is very good for treating sore skin. Besides beluntas leaves also often consumed by people as fresh vegetables. The existence of public information that traditionally has been long used as one of the beluntas leaves medicinal plants encourages researchers to conduct studies to prove the efficacy scientifically. In this paper will be tried exposure beluntas leaves two research utilization in extract form as a component of essential oils as antibacterial and antioxidant substances

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Cloves are the dried flower buds of the clove tree is generated, clove trees grow in the tropics, Indonesia is known as one of the producers of cloves. Plants are produced in the Moluccas. Clove today largely utilized for flavoring food while utilization to health has been known for centuries. In China cloves been used to eliminate bad breath over 2000 years ago, at the time of the Emperor to suggest if people want to see him have to chew cloves in advance so that when the talk will smell fragrant. Even cloves in China and Persian are also thought to stimulate sexual pitalitas. Cloves are very strong efficacious drug because it can stimulate. Anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-septic. Once processed into Clove oil can be used for pain relief for toothache sufferers because the content of the compounds contained therein can help blood circulation and stimulates the skin and when applied directly to the skin. Herewith informed several benefits Clove for treatment, including: • Stimulate aromatic breathing: Used to treat nausea, vomiting, abdominal bloating, fatigue and indigestion. Clove oil can also be used as a powerful disinfectant and wound healing and can relieve throat. Cloves are used as a real drug used to protect them from colds and flatulence. Helps stimulate blood circulation and regulate body temperature. • Indigestion: Clove can stimulate the production of enzymatic and improve the functioning of the digestive. Cloves are used in addressing permasalahn stomach, abdominal pain and digestive problems. As for how pembuatanya drug used to treat vomiting, abdominal pain and throat is mixed with cloves and honey soften then dimimum. • Cholera: Cloves are very powerful to cope with cholera because it can strengthen the intestinal and gastric mucus and increase the number of white blood, as for how to take 4 grams of bud cloves and 3 cups of water and boiled until it becomes half. • Asthma: For treatment of asthma medication how to take florets 6 cloves mixed with 30 ml of water and a little honey, do it 3 times a day. • Toothache: To use toothache how to overcome the 10-point Roasted cloves until charred. Grind until smooth, put the tooth kelubang to taste, then cover with cotton. Apply 2 times a day. Another way: plug cavities with cotton that has been sprinkled with clove oil. • Ear pain: To fix the way by applying clove oil to the aching ear using katembat. • Headaches: To overcome the headache how to mix cloves, salt and milk, because of the nature of the salt can absorb fluids and lowers blood pressure. • Blood Circulation: Clove oil is helpful to increase your body's metabolism by increasing blood circulation to lower body temperature.

Saturday, August 23, 2014

typical Indonesian medicinal plants ( 2 )

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Bulbs ginger oleoresin contains compounds known as gingerols which are as antioxidant. The nature is what makes ginger touted antiaging useful as bioactive components. Ginger bioactive components may serve to protect the fat / membranes from oxidation, inhibit the oxidation of cholesterol, and boost immunity. Benefits of ginger are traditionally well known is as follows: Common Cold Remedy: Take the old ginger thumb, washed and crushed and boiled with two cups of water, add brown sugar to taste. Simmer approximately 1/4 hours. Lift and drink warm. Headache or migraine (headaches) Remedy: Take the Seibu finger ginger, roasted and then crushed. Brewed with a glass of water and give a little palm sugar, drink once. Drink three times a day. Preventing motion sickness Remedy: Take the Seibu finger ginger, washed and thinly sliced​​, then boiled with a glass of water. Warm drink before boarding the vehicle. Sprains Remedy: Take ginger 'more than two segments. Rinse and then grated, add a little salt. Apply this mixture on a sprained limbs. Do twice a day.

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Tempuyung (Sonchus arvensis L) including chronic herb plants are usually grown in shaded places. The leaves are green with a little purple slick, wavy edges, and irregularly toothed. Near the base of the stem, toothed leaves that form a rosette terpusar and located on the top hugging intermittent alternating stems. Wavy leaves hug the stem is what efficacious destroy kidney stones. Inside the leaves contained relatively high levels of potassium. The presence of potassium tempuyung leaves is what makes kidney stones scattered in the form of calcium carbonate, because potassium will get rid of calcium carbonate to join compound, oxalate, or uric which is a kidney stone formers. The precipitate was finally dissolved kidney stones and drifted out with the urine. Required for use as a drug tempuyung five fresh leaves. Once washed, leaves smoked for a while. The leaves are eaten as a salad once finished with the rice. In one day we could take as much as three times the fresh vegetable

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Garlic (Allium sativum) is an annual herb that has berumpun height of about 60 cm. This plant is widely grown in the fields in a mountainous area that gets enough sunlight. Pseudo-stem and the stem is green. Bersiung bottom-cloves, joining a large white bulbs. Each leather-wrapped cloves sliced ​​thin and if it smells very sharp. Ribbon-shaped leaves (flat aft), flat edge, pointed tip, grooved, length 60 cm and width 1.5 cm. Fibrous roots. The flowers are white, long-stemmed and umbrella shape. Garlic can be used for alternative medicine as follows: a. Garlic Flu and Cough. Sulfur contained in garlic make it have a distinctive smell and taste may improve and accelerate activities in the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, which helps relieve compression and mucus. Raw Garlic contains phytochemicals that may help kill bacteria and viruses that cause disease. How do I use it? Eat as much garlic as soon as you feel pain or add garlic to the dish. You can also make a cough medicine with this recipe: Mash garlic and input into the cold milk in a saucepan, and heat about 1-2 minutes, and drink warm. b. Garlic and Cholesterol There are now over 12 studies published worldwide that ensure that the garlic in various forms can reduce cholesterol. Therefore, it can be concluded that garlic can cure high blood pressure, heart disease. One study published in "The Journal of The Royal College of Physicians" by Silagy and Neil HAW CS 1994 mentioned that garlic is an agent for reducing fat. The author states that garlic supplements is the most important part in the healing of high cholesterol. According to him, on the whole, a decrease of 12% of the total cholesterol. This decrease occurred after 4 weeks perawata c. Garlic and Onions Cancer also has content for the fight against cancer, especially cancer of the stomach and colon. Organosulfida contained in garlic helps the liver process the toxic chemical compounds, including chemical compounds that cause cancer several epidemiological studies show that people who consume a lot of garlic lower risk of stomach and colon cancer. To ensure that you will get maximum results, researchers from Penn State Unipersity recommend to let the first piece of onion or a collision for at least 10 minutes, giving it time onions form the contents that help fight cancer.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

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).