Monday, May 23, 2011

About Garlic

Garlic (Allium sativum) has long been used as a kitchen, because the rich aroma. The use of a garlic flavor to any ingredient, but it is also used as an ingredient, which can cause health problems. Herbaceous plants are very easy to exceed the price is relatively cheap.

Garlic is a plant having a stroke, and on top of the plant is commonly planted in 60 fields cm.This mountainous areas receive sufficient sunlight. This plant is a pseudo-stem and green. Fed-form, to participate in a large white onion. Each tooth wrapped in leather, cut into thin slices, and if it smells very strong. Ribbon like leaves (flat bottom), smooth edge, he said, the timing, length 60 cm wide and 1.5 cm. Root fibers. The flowers are white in color, length, size and shape of an umbrella.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Galangal Herb Plants

This is the scientific name of plants languages ​​galangal. Galanga in tropical Asia, but there is also the view Bangla (India). Galangal plants grown in the plains and plateaus to an altitude of 1200 m above sea level. Growing up in a protected area, but it has enough sun.

Galangal herb is a plant that grows from 5.1 to 2.5 m. robust Ginger is high due to fresh fictional bar formed by the nerve center of the rib-set leaves. There are two types of galangal, galangal rhizome which is a white and a red rhizomes.

Rhizome is a fine, white fiber, while the red rhizome is thicker fiber. Leaves of this plant in a bright green surface of the upper and lower surfaces pale green. Leaves form a long thin around a sharp point. This blade is generally regarded as a small white lines and a little 'difficult. Leaves at the base usually does not have leaves, but only the rib.

The plants that were large enough to cause green-white flowers. The interest comes when the plant is old enough, push the tip of the plant. Flowers and petals standing bell-shaped, greenish-white, long, thin stem.

Content of substances in plants, this herb is an essential oil, green-yellow color and characteristic odor and a bitter taste of galangal. Content of the oil degradation include methyl cinnamaat 48% cineole 20% - 30%, camphor, D-alpha-Guy, galangal, eugenol and 3% - 4%. It also contains other substances such as galangol, hexahydorcadalene hydrate, camphor, a sesquiterpene, crystals and cadinine.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Fennel

The widespread use of a medicinal plant. In Indonesia, this plant is a plant that has an important role in traditional medicine in the field. This is illustrated by the demand for oil continues to grow fennel.

This plant is known as fennel Foeniculum vulgare Mill plant science is an annual herbaceous plant of the Umbelliferae family. 1.2 m can be achieved by a number of branches. Leaves and branches are round, small, and a length of 3 cm in length. Fennel flowers in the yellow umbrella for a great collection. Under the same roof is 15 40small umbrella, the umbrella arm length is 1-6 cm. Rectangular Flower length from 3.5 to 4 cm. Each tube is whichcriss limits of oil. When you're young, the beans are green, then it was fennel brownishwhen.

These herbs have many advantages that can be taken directly from the roots, leaves, stems and seeds. Fennel leaves useful as a diuretic andencourages sweating. Plant useful as a cough remedy, laxatives and stomach pain after childbirth roots.

Fennel contains essential oils, such as perfume, when nutrients to treat inflammation of the flavonoids limonin. Essential oils can also kill the bacteria. Drosophila contains oil (anethole, pinene, felandren, dipentene, Fenchone, metilchavikol, anisaldehida, anisatacid, camphor), and oils.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Child Pick


Return to pick up your child (urine Phylanthus, Linn.) Indonesian language is called "Meniran", derived from a tropical plant that grows wild in the woods, fields, gardens and courtyards. Generally, these plants are not maintained, because the grass is considered normal. Child to choose a place that once flourished in the marshy lowlands at an altitude of 1000 meters.

The central bar, a kitchen with less than 50 cm. Ribbed steel plate, which consists of sheets of the same compound, which is a small oval. The flowers are axillary panicles below.

This plant is filled with a variety of chemicals, which have been known, for example, lignans (Filante, hipofilantin, nirantin, lintetratin), flavonoids (quercetin, quercitrin, isoquercitrin, Astragalus, routine, kaempferol-4, rhamnopynoside) alkaloids, triterpenoids, fatty acids, (ricinoleat, linoleic acid, linolenic acid), vitamin C, potassium, resin, tannins, and geraniin phyllanthin hypophyllanthin.

These herbs are astringent, laxative urine (this prevents the formation of crystals of calcium oxalate), fever, anti-hepatotoxic, anti-bacterial against escherichiacoli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, a hypoglycemic. These plant extracts can prevent aldosereductase (AR), because the inhibitory compound is ellagic acidnya six times more potent than quercitrin known inhibitor of AR (aldose reduction to become a diabetic).

Some diseases can be treated with this system are: jaundice (liver), malaria, fever, epilepsy, cough, excessive menstruation, dysentery, burns, wounds, sores, acne.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Bracelet, Great Benefits


Bracelets are known as Zingiber Zingiber purpureum Roxb cassumunar and India. These plants grow in groups, to a height of 1.5 m. The auction is herbaceous stem consists of a collection of pseudo-chest day, and certainly not the stem. Lancet, in the form of long thin ice on top. Leaves smooth, thin and hairy. Rhizome short straps round and segmented, each segment has had outbreaks of the disease. The outer shell is brown rhizome of this plant is young, so the distribution is shown in the flesh as the golden yellow rhizome. It's a strange smell and strong, rancid taste strong and bitter.

Flower Bracelet is compound interest, in the form of clusters, the outlet end of the length of the handle of the rod 20 cm. section with the shape of the flower is oval in shape, length from 60 to 10 cm and a width of 4-5. petals thick scales arranged like the leaves, the petals into a tube, irregular and three red. White Flower lips stretched around.

The chemicals in these institutions is the essential oil (cineol and pinene), resin, starch and tannins.

Bracelet used in herbal medicine. Although the stale smell beautiful, but very few people that use it, because of its usefulness. Enjoy the health of the bracelet are: fever, runny nose

Take 15 g of fresh rhizome bracelets, washed and shredded.Add ½ cup of hot water and two tablespoons of honey. After mixing evenly, and then pressed and filtered for drinking. Perform twice a day.

Stomach ache
The kit includes an armband, rhizomes, and rhizomes of ginger scented Lempuyang kencur, respectively (middle finger). The material is washed and chopped. Boil one cup of water until the remaining ½ cup.Once fresh, filtered and drunk.