Indonesian Bay Leaf

Indonesian bay leaves or laurel (in the Indonesian language is known as Salam) is a manufacturer of plant leaves used in cooking, Indonesia. This is the botanical name is Syzygium polyanthum. This factory is located in the southern part of Burma, Indonesia has increased by 5 foot height is 1,000 meters. Laurel tree can grow in the plains to the mountains at an altitude of 1800 m, a growing mass in the forest or jungle.

This medium sized shrub that reaches a height of 30 m. the bark is gray-brown, brittle, or peeling. Journal of the opposite is true above the horizontal branch, as if arranged in two rows in the field. Most have no impact on the petiole of 12 mm. Leaves elliptical, oval, narrow, elliptical or lanceolate, 5-16 x 2.5 to 7 cm, bald, with 6-11 secondary veins and margins appear on the coastline near the edge of the chain, the sebaceous glands located in the etheric body. Rings that form the beginning, with many flowers, 2-8 cm, is shown in magazines or sometimes the arm. Flowers small, fragrant, sessile. Flowers usually bisexual, petals and garlands, each with 4-5 leaves and petals of the same amount of the crown of leaves, sometimes with each other. Stamens numerous, sometimes very Valvatti leaves the ring. Bunting has a color bar, which sometimes are part of the interest.

It is also interesting that the fruit will sink, have a pistil bar, instead of one to several, 1-8 with an egg in each room. Seeds with little or no endosperm, the Agency for straight, curved or round.

Bay leaves of plants are commonly used in the Indonesian people that the plants are more effective drugs. In Treatment, Laurel treat high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure (hypertension), gastritis, diarrhea, and the levels of a substance suspected of being a drug of uric acid. Chemical components of plants, bay leaves, saponins, triterpenoids, flavonoids, polyphenols, alkaloids, tannins and volatile oil sesquiterpene lactone, and phenol.