Cardamom

Cardamom is a kind of fruit, which is often used as a spice in cooking and special blends of herbs. There are two types of cardamom are widely used in Indonesia, Java, or cardamom (Amomum compact) and India, cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum), both members of the family Zingiberaceae.

The plants are 2-3 m tall grass. Having a rounded, dark green pseudostem. Having a successful business at an altitude of 200-1000 meters above sea level. Sheets returned to the show, lanceolate, all from 7.5 to 3 x 50 -10 cm, base narrow, conical tip 3 cm long, bright green leaves are a lot of white dots at the beginning, but eventually the red blood.

Rhizomes grow flowers and separated from the mother, with upright stems of 10 cm. Voices of the stairs are closed. Flower-shaped crown of pipe, rectangular, white or yellowish. The fruit is small and short, thick, sometimes hairy, gray-yellow.

Cardamom is grown mainly for their fruit. Other dried herbs or spices. Essential oils extracted from seeds is used in perfumes and fragrances. All parts of this function, the aromatic fragrance of cardamom, bitter and warm. Medicines against cough nourishing herbal, and carminative, used to treat cough, abdominal pain, arthritis and fever.

Cakar Ayam (Selaginella doederleinii Hieron)

Including plants Division Pteridophyta, Selaginella. Ferns in Indonesia called ayam Cakar because its shape resembles a chicken leg, while in China, Shang Shi name. This plant usually grows wild shores of streams, wet rocks, gorges, cliffs, and 400-750 meters in height a. The chicken legs with the cold, wet herbs in order to bring a small tripod, height 15-35 cm. Mother round, mud, branches, there is no secondary growth, and brown-black.

The leaves are small, simple, style organized body, face, 1-2 mm long, smooth, and a length of 4-5 mm, 2 mm wide, oblong, pointed, flat bottom, high-gloss green green leaves , dark world. Leaves arranged on both sides of the trunk of the body, which resembles chicken claw in balance. Fallen leaves, and white axillary sporangia. Fibers because of their green stems and green-brown-black.

This plant contains alkaloids, saponins and phytosterols. Etanolik extracts contain components, lignans and bioflavonoids fenilpropanon.

This plant is effective in removing heat and moisture into the bloodstream, antitoksik, antineoplasma to stop bleeding (hemostasis), and reduce the swelling. Equally effective in the treatment chorioepithelioma, choriocarcinoma, a cancer of the nasopharynx, lung cancer, respiratory infections, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs (pneumonia), infection, sore throat, cough, sore throat, hoarse, hepatitis, cholecystitis, Cirrhosis of the liver (narrowing of the liver), abdominal swelling (ascites), Selaginella, acute urinary tract infections, broken bones (fractures), and arthritis.

Bitter Grape

Known as acid grapes Brotowali Indonesia, the Chinese named Shen Jin Teng. Plants that live in the wild in the woods, fields, or planting in the yard near the fence. Usually planted as a medicinal herb.


These plants are shrubs that live in the mountains. Ensure your finger is a small, young, green and gray, when it comes to the ancient, narrow, and a bitter taste. Leave due to a heart-shaped egg, slightly rounded or feet, with a length of 7-12 cm, 50-10 cm wide. Small flowers, light green, in the form of a pseudo-groups. Spread the cut.


Skins and stems of this plant contain alkaloids, such as starches, glycosides pikroretosid pale yellow resin. The root contains berberine, and Columbine. Alkaloid berberine is to prevent bacteria in the wound. The bitterness is also helpful to increase appetite and reduce sugar. Pikroretin bitter substances can stimulate the nerves and the respirator to work properly, and to simplify the exchange of substances, which can reduce the heat.


The chemical properties of the grape is bitter and cold, although the effect of analgesic (painkiller), fever (fever), and launched the meridian.


The grapes are used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, hip (sciatica), bruising, fever, stimulates appetite, yellow fever, and diabetes. Used in this plant boiled and drunk. Of boiling water to wash the bitter wounds, scabies and wounds.

Bilimbi (Averrhoa bilimbi L.)

Bilimbi plant (Averrhoa bilimbi L.) is a kind of small trees that are thought to originate from the Maluku Islands (Indonesia), but from other sources also said to come from tropical America. Plants are usually planted in the yard to be picked fruit. The fruit has a sour taste are often used as syrup freshener, flavoring dishes, clean the stain on the cloth, polish goods made of brass, clean hands are dirty or as ingredients of traditional medicine.

This plant with an annual age can reach 5-10 m high with a trunk that is not so big and has a diameter of only about 30 cm. Planted as fruit trees, sometimes grows wild and is found from the lowlands to 500 m above sea level. Bilimbi have rough bumpy stem, short and have few branches. Leaves odd pinnate compound leaf form, alternating, 30-60 cm long and grouped at the end of the branch. On each leaf there are 11 to 45 pairs of oval leaves.

The flowers are small, emerging directly from the stems with hairy flower stalk. Crown of five flowers, white, yellow or lilac.

Ellipse-shaped fruit up to like a torpedo, 4-10cm long. Color when young green fruit, with the remaining petals attached at the ends. If the ripe fruit is yellow or pale yellow. Flesh juicy fruit with a very sour taste to sweet. Shiny and thin rind. Seeds small, flat, and brown, and covered with mucus.

These plants have chemical properties with a sour taste and cool, in addition to pharmacological effects include: analgesic, multiply the expenditure of bile, anti-inflammatory, shed the urine, astringent. This plant contains saponins, tannins, glucoside, calcium oxalate, formic acid, sulfur, peroxide, and potassium citrate.

The plant is used for the treatment of disease is flowers, leaves and fruit. Bilimbi interest to treat coughs and stomatitis. The leaves of this plant parotitis and efficacious cure rheumatism. While men can treat whooping cough, bleeding gums, canker sores, painful cavities, acne, phlegm, hypertension, paralysis, improves digestive function, and inflammation of the rectum.

A Little Information About the Betel Plant

Bethel was the central and eastern Malaysia is the discovery of wild plants, fruits, betel nut is very easy to find. During this period the plants are grown for over 2500 years in Asia, Madagascar and East Africa. India and Asia in general, is proportional to the betel leaf of every human life, including social, cultural, religious, and even daily, until recently. An example is used to chew betel, which is considered refreshes the mouth and the energy, usually the death of the social, cultural and religious, such as marriage, Y. leaves of this plant is also used for visitors to fear in a bowl.

Bethel is a climber to solve two or married, even though the tree, bald, with a height of 5.15 m. There are two types of branching of herbaceous plants, which are the main branches to grow, or call ortotropic generating plant roots and relate to rise, children and contact information, or branches connecting ortotropic generation section called generators and plagiotropic roots. In both compounds, such as swelling, and books. One sheet, turn, turn back the whole eggs, 5 to 20.5 cm x 13.4 cm 2, the arms, such as heart disease, has led to the dish, meat bones, but the smooth, bald or hairy leaves bones systems. Bones numbered leaves 2-3 pairs, one pair, which is derived from the mother and leave the rest to the bone at the base of the leaves. Unisexual flowers hanging from Bethel to grow leaves, inflorescence size of 12 cm for men and 5

Bethel is a plant that is easy to find in the yard house.This due to the location of different business related betel health and healing. Essential oils of herbs, whose composition varies in different varieties. High content of essential oil eugenol betel leaves, kavikol, methyl kavikol (estragole) and kavibetol (betelfenol, eugenol isomer). Kavikol provide odor and bacteria have the power to kill five times the normal betel phenol. Even without oil, betel leaves and roots also has antiseptic properties, inhibits tumor angiogenesis.