Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Qingpu Qingpu Plant


Anting-anting herba (Acalypha australis L.), or Acalypha indicator often grows wild on the side of the road, grass, hills, etc.. Propagation is by seed plants. Anting-anting plants in parts of Indonesia have different colors.

It grows as a shrub. Tree height of 1.5 meters, the trunk erect, branched, with a line on a rough surface, hair round, smooth, green. A single sheet, with a diamond-shaped, green cm long, 4.3, 3.2 cm wide, pointed, toothed, is divided into a tree trunk. Composite flower-shaped ears, and let the branches and the end of the arm. Fruit globose, black. Semi-elliptical and roots. The roots of this plant is loved by dogs and cats.

Anting Anting plant taxonomy are classified as follows:

Kingdom          : Plantae
Britain              : Tracheophytes
Super Division  : Spermatophyta
Division            : Magnoliophyta
Category          : Magnoliopsida
In class             : Rosidae
Order               : Euphorbiales
Family               : Euphorbiaceae
Genus               : Acalypha
Species             : Acalypha australis L.

The chemical constituents of this plant are: fiber ascorbate, ascorbic acid, ascorbate, β-sitosterol, β-D-glucoside, kaempferol tannin, and tannin. Meanwhile, the effect is pharmacologically antidiabetic, anti-aging, an inhibitor of β-glucuronidase, hypoglycemia, antioxidants, inhibitors of xanthine oxidase inhibitors, lipoxygenase and 5.

In addition, the pharmacological effects of Anting Anting-known effect of air-conditioning (astringent), inflammatory, antibiotics, laxatives, urine, or to stop bleeding (hemostasis). Anting Anting, often used for dysentery and Basile of dysentery, malnutrition, nose bleeding, blood, vomit, diarrhea, blood in urine, and malaria.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Aloe vera, herbal beauty


This herb is a good plant to soften the hair looks good, keeps the skin moisture, and first aid, while burning or scalded.

Aloe Vera (Aloe Vera Linn.) Includes the wild plants in a cool, hot pots, or planted in the House and Gardens as a decoration. Many of North Africa, the Caribbean.

Aloe Vera plants trunked short. The trunk is not visible because it is covered with dense foliage and partially buried in the ground. With the bar after buds appear as girls. Mother of pieces of Aloe Vera is also used to reproduce the work.

Aloe Vera plant leaf-shaped elongated strip of beach. The fleshy leaves are thick, not backed, gray-green, fleshy nature (including a lot of water), and many latex or mucus (gel) as raw material. Aloe Vera plants resistant to drought, when water scarcity. Because many of the leaves are hidden containers, which can be used form of the leaf is like a sword with a sharp object, leaving the surface covered with wax, with pieces around the edges. Journal of up to 50-75 cm, weight 0.5 kg - 1 kg of leaves tightly around the body.

Aloe Vera, flowers, stems 60-90 cm long, tube-shaped yellow or reddish, collected and deposited in the armpits. Aloe Vera plant roots in the form of short fibers are deep in the earth. Root length ranges from 50-100 cm. To grow plants that require a rich soil and loose on top.