Aloe Vera (Aloe Vera L.)

Kingdom                   : Plantae (Plants)
Subkingdom              : Tracheobionta (vascular plants)
Super Division           : Spermatophyta (produce seed)
Division                     : Magnoliophyta (flowering plants)
Class                         : Liliopsida (dashed one / monocot)
Order                        : Asparagales
Family                       : Asphodelaceae
Genus                        : Aloe
Species                      : Aloe vera L.

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Litchi (Euphoria Longana)

Litchi originated from China, including in the family apindaceae and known as ong guo yes or the eyes of dragon fruit. While in Indonesia, popularly known as 'mata kucing (cat's eye)'. The nickname is not because a way is similar to litchi fruit eyeball. Flesh is round, translucent white, and juicy. In the middle of the fruit seeds are black or dark brown.

Litchi tree can reach a height of 40 m and trunk diameter up to about 1 m. Leafy compound, with 2-4 (-6) pairs of leaves, mostly feathered tightly on axial section. 1-20 cm petiole, leaf stalk children from 0.5 to 3.5 cm. Children rounded leaves elongate, length 1-5 times its width, varying from 1.5 to 20 cm × 3-45, with the feathers felt especially on the bottom near the bones of the leaf.
Inflorescence usually on the end (Flos terminalis), 4-80 cm long, thick with feathers felt, umbrella shape fork. Crown flower five strands, length up to 6 mm. Fruit round, yellowish brown, almost bare; smooth, grainy, rough, depending on its type. Fruit flesh (arilus) thin white and somewhat translucent. Packaging seeds blackish brown, shiny. Sometimes it smells a bit harsh.

In of fruit flesh have content sucrose, glucose, protein, fat, vitamin A, vitamin B, tartaric acid, and chemical compounds of plants (phytochemical) Other useful for health. The combination of these phytochemical compounds gave birth to various benefits, including relaxing the nerves and in the literature mentioned litchi provide a calming effect and efficacious overcome anxiety, insomnia, and difficulty concentrating.

In addition, litchi fruit flesh is also beneficial heart healthy and can treat heart pounding. In the book of fruit therapy, noted that the litchi fruit can also strengthen the spleen, increase production of red blood cells, increase appetite, and add energy, so it is either consumed by people who are in the process of recovery after illness stamina. Litchi fruit is useful to nourish the intestines and improve the absorption of food, launched a pee, cope with worms, healthy eyes, treat headaches, vaginal discharge and a hernia.

Part of litchi plants which merit not just fruit alone. Roots and leaves of litchi which taste bitter, even the hard seeds also keeps drug efficacy. The roots of litchi efficacious shed urine and blood circulation. Leaves efficacious as anti-inflammatory and fever reliever. While the seeds is useful to relieve pain and stop bleeding. Litchi seed is also used as material for shampoo, because it contains saponin compounds that can produce foam in large quantities.

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Wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris L.)

This plant comes from China. Have fine hair and sharp smell, like the soil is quite moist and rich humus. Wormwood type grown in the garden as a medicinal plant is Artemisia argyi Levl.

These plants include shrubs for years, half-woody, branching many, grooved and hairy, grow upright, height is 1 m. Wormwood leaf single, egg-shaped with edge sharing resemble fingers, tapered tip, smooth-haired second surface, the surface color of green, whitish green underneath, sitting turns, 8-12 cm long, 6-8 cm wide. Compound interest in a stump, small, light yellow color, arranged in a series of bent-shaped panicles grow, out of the armpit and the tip of the leaf stalks. Fruit boxes, needle shape, small, brown. Seeds small, brown.

Wormwood is one of the herbs are efficacious for the treatment of disease in women. Often cooked with lean meat as a vegetable. Propagation by cuttings or seed.

Wormwood leaves taste bitter, spicy, warm, aromatic smell, enter the kidney meridian, lung and spleen. Efficacious warms the meridians, relieves cold, pain relievers (analgesics), stop bleeding (hemostatis), shed the urine (diuretic), flatus bullets, bullets of sweat, increased appetite (stomakik), astringent, tonic, stimulant, blood circulation and relieving clotting, prevent miscarriage, and normalize menstruation.

The leaves of this plant contain essential oils (phellandrene, cadinene, alpha-thujone), alpha-Amyrin, fernenol, dihydromatricaria esters, cineole, 1-alpha-terpineol, beta-kariophilene, 1-quebrachitol, and tannins. Roots and stems contain inulin (which contains artemose). While the small branches containing oxytocin, Yomogi alcohol, and ridentin. Parts used for the treatment of leaves, seeds, and roots. Use fresh or dried.

Leaves of this plant are efficacious overcome menstrual disorders, such as: menstrual blood is too much (hipermenore), painful menstruation (dysmenorrhea), irregular menstruation comes, do not come menstruation (amenorrhea); disorders of pregnancy, such as bleeding arise during pregnancy, fetal movement is too active , ease childbirth, difficult to have children
keramperut after childbirth, epilepsy, whitish (leukorea); dysentery, flatulence, heartburn, bleeding, eg vomiting blood (hematemesis), blood cough hemoptysis), nosebleed (epistaxis), bleeding hemorrhoids, bleeding after childbirth, bleeding wound; cough with phlegm, sore throat, too much use of opiates, beri-beri, and hemorrhoids.
While the nutritious seeds overcome: impotence and nutritious roots overcome epilepsy (epilepsy). Flowering herb that merit Remedy: heartburn and increase appetite.

How to Use

10-30 g of fresh leaves (50-10 g dry) boiled in 3 cups of water until the remaining 1 cup. After a cold, drink boiled water all at once or divided into 2-3 parts which were gone in one day.

Fresh leaves are washed and added vinegar until wet, then roasted (fried without oil) to black. Then the material is ground into black powder. Use, whenever the powder was taken as much as 3-6 g, then boiled or brewed and drunk. Finely ground fresh leaves are also used for external use, for example in bloody wounds, boils, ulcers and insect repellent. A number of new leaves are boiled China can also be used for bath or compress a stiff neck (tortikolis).

External use is used as moksa (dried leaves, then rolled up like a cigar). Its use, moksa burned until the end lights up like a cigar, and then used to heat specific acupuncture points such as the stomach pain, no appetite, loss less, muscle paralysis, difficulty breathing, chronic swelling of the liver and spleen, spinal disease, skrofula, pleuritis, rheumatism , eczema, and itching (pruritus).

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Ginger (Zingiber officinale)

Ginger is an herbaceous annual plant that can grow in low-lying areas or in the mountains with an altitude up to 1,700 meters above sea level. This herbal plant actually originated from India, then spread to other tropical regions.

Ginger is included in Zingiberaceal tribe, one family with other herbs such as Cucuma Xanthorrizha, Cucuma Aeruginosa, Cucuma domestica, Kaempteria galanga, galanga Lenguas, and others.

There are three kinds of ginger plants based on shape, color and aroma that is: big white ginger (Zingiber officinale var), small white ginger (Zingiber officinale var amarum), and red ginger (Zingiber officinale var rubrum).

Stem ginger is a pseudo stem, composed of leaves, slender shape, round, and rather soft. Ginger plants grow upright and form clumps. The leaves of this herb in pairs of two-two sword-shaped lines are arranged in two criss cross, dark green colored leaves with younger bone clearly visible. Flowers out of the ground surface, which emerged from the side rhizome roots when plants are old enough. Color yellowish white flowers.

The roots of this herb rhizome-shaped, aromatic, and spicy. Rhizome like horns, forked meetings, the long round, round a bit short. Dirty brown outer skin. If the roots are cut, it was meat rhizomes are yellow, while red ginger (Zingiber officinale var rubrum), red, flavorful ginger typical sharp and somewhat spicy.

This kind of herbal plant is one of the important spices. Rhizome of the ginger is very widely used, such as spices, giving aroma and flavor in foods such as bread, cake, biscuit, confectionery and various beverages. Ginger is also used in industrial medicine, perfume and traditional herbal medicine. Young ginger eaten as vegetables, processed into pickles and pickle. In addition, because it can give effect to heartburn, the ginger is also used as an ingredient.

Other characteristic of ginger caused by volatile oil and ginger oleoresin. Fragrant aroma of ginger is caused by essential oils, while oleoresin cause some stinging. On attrition oil contained gingerol, zingiberol, zingiberin, camphor, and cineol. The main components of ginger essential oils that cause the smell is fragrant and zingiberol zingiberin Essential oils can be obtained or isolated by steam distillation of dried ginger rhizome. Extracts of ginger oil as a liquid until thick greenish yellow, fragrant but do not have the fundamental building blocks of spicy flavor. Ginger essential oil content in about 0.5% to 5.6%.

Ginger oleoresin contains a lot of spicy flavor-forming component which does not evaporate. The components in ginger oleoresin consists of gingerol and zingiberen, shagaol, essential oils and resins. Spicy flavoring in ginger is gingerol major. Additionally, ginger contains starch or starch about 20% to 60%, resins, and organic acids.

This herb is used as a spice in cooking especially efficacious to increase appetite, strengthen the stomach, improve and aid digestion, help remove intestinal gas and help the heart function.This is possible because the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines stimulated by essential oils of ginger rhizome issued.Ginger contains digestive enzymes are protease and lipase, which digests each protein and fat.

Oil of ginger contains gingerol a typical aromatic ginger, efficacious to prevent and treat nausea and vomiting, such as motion sickness or in young pregnant women. This is because this herb is able to block serotonin, a chemical that can cause the stomach to contract, causing nausea

In traditional Asian medicine, ginger is used to treat colds, coughs, diarrhea and bone diseases such as arthritis arthritis. Ginger is also used to enhance the cleansing of the body through sweat.

Ginger may also reduce blood pressure. This is because ginger stimulates the release of the hormone adrenaline and widens blood vessels, resulting in blood flow more quickly and smoothly and ease the work of the heart pumps blood. Gingerol in ginger are anticoagulants, which prevent blood clotting. Gingerol also thought to help lower cholesterol. Ginger also contains antioxidants that help neutralize the damaging effects caused by free radicals in the body.

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Coral jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis L.)

As a husband, you certainly do not want to disappoint your wife in a sexual relationship. Likewise, a wife, you certainly want to provide the greatest service in an effort to satisfy your husband's sexual arousal. In some cases cracks households, are not satisfied in a sexual relationship between husband and wife is one cause.
 

Coral jasmine or Sorrowful Tree or Parijata or Sarigading is one that is used as an ingredient of herbal medicine maker to maintain stamina husband and wife in sexual activity. Its function is to accelerate blood circulation, relieve pain and facilitate the piss. 10 grams of herbal leaves are blended and softened with 10 grams of ginger. Then the mixture was mixed with 100 ml boiled water, 1 raw chicken egg yolk, and a little honey. This herb is drunk regularly 3 or 4 times a week.

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But for women who are pregnant and people are coughing up blood or bloody stools, and people who experience stomach upset / gut, do not drink this potion. For someone who was 17 years and under, do not drink this concoction mixed with chicken eggs.

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Kumis kucing (Orthosiphon Stamineus Benth)

These herbal plants are ornamental plants that have a considerable efficacy in treating various diseases. Herbs that have a Latin name Orthosiphon Stamineus Benth is used as a laxative urinary stones and kidney stones. Plants Kumis Kucing can named Java Tea or Kidney Tea Plants are anti inflammatory and smooth the urine. Ingredients ortosifonin and potassium (especially the leaves), is a key component that helps the dissolution of uric acid, phosphate, and oxalate in the human body, especially the bladder, gall and kidney, which can prevent the occurrence of kidney stone deposition. Potassium on this herb efficacious diuretic (urination expedite) and solvent ureter stones, while sinensetin efficacious antibacterial. The content of saponins and tannins in the leaves was also able to treat vaginal discharge.

Plant this herb trunked wet, up to 1.5 m tall, oval-shaped leaves, white flowers like a cat's whiskers, square-shaped trunk and break easily. Habitat of this plant growing wild in fields, on the banks of the river and in places where the land is slightly damp to a height of 700 m above sea level, there is also planted as an ornamental plant.

All parts of this plant can be utilized. Flowers, leaves, stems and roots are all useful to cure some diseases. To treat urinary stones, 90 grams of herb Kumis Kucing (Kidney Tea Plants) washed and then boiled with a liter of water to boil until the remaining 750 cc. Once cool, the water is drunk three times a day each third section. Drink this mixture until the disease cured.

For those who suffer from urinary tract infections, frequent urination can be treated with fresh leaves of Kumis Kucing (Kidney Tea Plants), meniran leaf (Phyllanthus urinaria), and root bladygrass (Imperata cylindrica) each 30 grams of the washed clean. The material is cut as necessary and then boiled in 3 cups of water until the remaining half. Once cool, the water and then drink half a glass each of three times a day.

20 sheets of Kidney Tea Plants leaf is added with 20 pieces of bitter leaf (Andrographis paniculata) is boiled with 110 ml of water can also treat diabetes if taken once a day.

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Betel (Piper betle L.)

Betel come from central and eastern Malaysia, the discovery proved to wild type of this plant, where the betel fruit is very easy to find. In the course of time, plants are then cultivated for over 2500 years ago in all of Asia to Madagascar and East Africa. In India, and in Asia in general, the importance lies in relation to betel leaf with every aspect of human life including social, cultural, religious, and even everyday life until recently. An example is the habit of chewing betel nut, which is considered to freshen the mouth and add power, routinely performed at social events, culture, and religion such as marriage and death. The leaves of this herb is also used as a special dish for guests in order to show respect.

Betel is a climbing plant to settle down two, or sometimes even married one, woody, bald, with a height of 5-15 m. There are two kinds of branching in plants of this herb, which is the main branches that grow upward or called branching ortotropic, which always produces the vegetative and have roots attached for climbing, and children branches which arise from the branching ortotropic, or called branching plagiotropic generating section generative and has no roots. In both types of branching, the stem swells books. Single leaf, turns, strands of round like an egg-sized 5-20.5 cm × 2-13.4 cm, stems such as heart disease, led to pointed, flat edged, fleshy like bone but soft, and has a bald or hairy surface on the bone systems under leaves. Bone leaves numbered 2-3 pairs, 1 pair of which stems from the mother leaves and the remaining bones from the base of the leaf. Betel inflorescence unisexual, grow hang dealing with leaves, with the size of the inflorescence to 12 cm in males or 5.5 cm in females.Flowers of this herb is very small and do not have a flower jewelry, flower genitals only protected by braktea. Braktea often become important features in the taxonomy of Piper. In betel, braktea sit down and attached to the mother's flower stalk at one point, with a strand round breech or rounded like an egg and shaved and trimmed short toothed or not. Braktea this protects the two short stamens or pistils are headed 3-5. Fruit a fleshy mass and cylinder-shaped green that is actually a collection of many pieces that are attached buni. Seeds of betel slightly rounded and very small.

In wild conditions, this herb grows in tropical rain forests. Like most other types piper, betel prefer shade shaded and sheltered from the wind and thrive in the humid forest environment with adequate soil moisture. Cultivation is generally carried out in places with an altitude of 000-900 m above sea level with annual rainfall of 2250-4750 mm. Piper in general, and betel nut in particular, easily propagated by planting two segments ortotropiknya bottom of the cut end of branches 30-45 cm long and have 3-5 segments. Once they begin to germinate and spread, cuttings are tied to the buffer.

Betel is a plant that is still easy to find in the yard or garden house.This is due to another position in society betel associated with health and healing. Medicinal substance in this herb is a volatile oil whose composition varies among varieties. Important content of essential oil of betel leaf is eugenol, kavikol, methyl kavikol (estragol) and kavibetol (betelfenol, isomer of eugenol). Kavikol provide distinctive smell of betel and has bacteria killing power five times that of ordinary phenol. In addition to be antiseptic, oil of betel leaves and roots also have tumor inhibiting properties.

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Tabat barito (Ficus deltoidea)

Not many people know, herbs tabat barito has a variety of health benefits. Primarily to address a variety of complaints and problems femininity.

Women's health problems are quite varied, ranging from facial skin, body weight, up to hormonal disorders and female organs.However, unlike the skin that is very linked to beauty and weight loss, hormonal disorders and female organs are often forgotten.

Most women are more concerned with the affairs of the appearance as seen from the outside. In fact, with age, a variety of health problems can occur. From the start of hormonal disorders or complaints associated with female organs, such as vaginal discharge, irregular menstruation, menopause, to reproductive problems.
Various medical therapies are often used to address a variety of complaints. The question arises, whether the various complaints that can be mitigated with a natural remedy? Certainly a very able, a number of studies stating tabat barito can be an alternative therapy to protect women from a variety of complaints.

Although not much known to the public, believed tabat barito potential to be developed as a natural remedy for overcoming whiteness and improve fertility. In addition, this rare herb was also believed to increase vitality (an aphrodisiac) and maintain the health of female hormones and urogenital organs.

In the leaves of tabat barito compound group contained saponins and glycosides. Isolation of chemical compounds from the bark have been studied and obtained a mixture afzelechin and epiafzelekin, entkatekin, and three simple phenolic compounds that can not be determined structures. One result of tabat barito extract known to contain sterol compounds that can be used for anti-cancer and tumors. In addition, roots contain cyanophoric.

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Weed (Imperata cilindrika L.)

If you see weeds, people will see it as just plain wild plants, even plants named latin Imperata cilindrika L is even often considered a weed. But did you know? This wild herbal plants turned out to have a chemical content which is useful for our body, such as mannitol, glucose, sakharosa, malic acid, citric acid, coixol, anindom and many others.

Other content owned by them:

1. In reed rhizome contained imperanene which turned out to have the effect of inhibiting platelet aggregation (blood clotting cells) according to the results of research experts from universities in Japan. Platelet aggregation inhibiting effect is similar to the effects caused by asetosal (acetyl salicylic acid) that is used to prevent blood clotting in patients with cardiac infarction.
2. Cylindol A contained in the rhizome weeds have the effect of inhibiting the enzyme 5-lipoksigenase. With the inhibition of 5-lipoksigenase the formation of prostaglandins that cause pain in the muscles can be blocked. Other material contained, which inhibits the activity Cylendrenemempunyai contraction in smooth muscle of blood vessels, so blood circulation remains smooth.
3. Graminone B inhibits aortic constriction of blood vessels.
4. From the test results turned out to plant this grass is also known to have pharmacological effects or in other words, this plant has the properties: anti piretik / lower the heat, hemostatic / stop bleeding, relieve thirst, diuretic / laxative tract and get into the lungs, stomach, intestine also small.

If you suffer from high blood pressure, the root of this herbal plant can be used as alternative medicine. How: 100 grams of coarse grass roots, 15 grams meniran, and 15 grams of turmeric boiled with 800 cc of water to the remaining 300 cc, filtered and drunk.

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Rodent Tuber (Typhonium flagiliforme)

Herbaceous plants are first known in Malaysia under the name Laoshu Yu. This kind of taro plant shrubs height only 25 cm -30 cm. These herbs are like the moist and not exposed to direct sun at an altitude of 1,000 meters above sea level. Single leaf-shaped with pointed tip, such as heart, emerged from tubers and fresh green.The crown-shaped flowers small, white long-tailed rodents similar to, based on flower shape was named Rodent Tuber.

Rodent Tuber from many and is increasingly recognized as a material for drug eradication of breast cancer. According to research some experts, the extract of the roots of this herb effective for prostate cancer and increasing antibacterial activity in blood. The leaves of this herb contains Ribosome Inactivating Proteins (RIPs) that serves as an anti-cancer, in addition to also be efficacious as antiviral. Pharmacological effect which is the main drug to treat cancer of advanced stage.

Parts used for treatment is the whole of the plant. Starting from the root (tuber), stems, leaves to flower. This plant was warm, acidic, and toxic. Taro rat efficacious as anti-inflammatory, anti-swelling, and can freeze the blood or reduce bleeding. Because they contain toxins, rodent tuber can cause itching in the throat, mouth, and skin. For that washed in running water. Besides, we can also add honey to relieve itching in the mouth.

To cure breast cancer, is used throughout this section, herbs, mashed and added 40 cc of boiled water, then filtered. Can add honey to it. Let stand for 30 minutes before eating. Solution is drunk three times a day routine. However, for patients with gastric disorders, the solution is taken after meals.

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Bitter (Andrographis paniculata)

Andrographis paniculata is a plant that grows wild in lowland until height of 700 m above sea level. This herb is living in the open like a garden, the river bank, clearing a bit damp or In the yard. This plant has a single leaf, short-stemmed, where the deal crossed, laset shape, base tapering, pointed tip, flat edge, upper surface dark green, light green bottom, 2-8 cm long, 1-3 cm wide. Lipped tubular flowers, small, purple-stained white color. Fruits such as capsule-shaped ellipse.

This plant has been used as medicinal plants for generations.Efficacy of this herb has been shown to cure human disease trending. Not only leaves, but all parts can be used as a drug, such as stems, twigs and roots. Either eaten directly or processed first, but it's very bitter.

Diabetes is a condition in which there are excessive levels of sugar in the blood circulation. This happens because the body is insulin deficiency that functions convert sugar into energy in our body.Insulin is produced by the pancreas organ located under the belly.As a result, blood sugar levels became high.

Paniculata contain andrographolide lactones (bitter substance), diterpene, glucosides and flavonoids, and minerals (K, Ca, Na). The content of andrographolide on this herb can lower blood sugar levels.

INGREDIENTS Diabetes Treatment
1 / 3 handheld paniculata leaves (Andrographis paniculata), 1 / 3 handheld kumis kucing leaf (Orthosiphon aristatus (B1) Miq.), 3 / 4 finger brotowali ± 6 cm stem (Tinospora tuberculata Beumme) washed and cut into pieces, boiled with 3 cups of water up to 2 cups. Taken after meals, 2 x daily @ 1 cup.

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Red betel (Piper piperacae crocatum)

Red betel plant has a scientific name piper piperacae crocatum included in the family. Red betel This is one of the potential medicinal plant which has been known to have various medicinal properties to cure various kinds of diseases.

Substance contained in red betel leaf is up to 4.2% essential oils chavicol paraallyphenol. Other chemical constituents contained in the leaves of this herb is hidroksikavocol, kavicol, kavibetol, allyprokatekol, karvakrol, eugenol, cineole, caryofelen, kadimen estragol, terpene and phenyl propada.

Due to the high content of chemical compounds, red betel leaf has a very large benefits as a drug ingredient. In this herbaceous plant phytochemical compounds which contain alkaloids, saponins, tannins, and flavonoids. Fitokaloid and flavonoid compounds having hypoglycemic activity or lowering blood glucose levels.Karvakrol is disinfectant, anti-fungal that can be used for antiseptic treatment of bad breath and white. Eugenol can be used to reduce pain, while the tannins can be used to treat stomach aches.Alkaloids as anti-microbial function to cure hemorrhoid disease, vaginal discharge and mouthwash.

Herbaceous plants are widely used in traditional medicine in curing some diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, hepatitis, kidney stones, lower cholesterol, prevent stroke, gout, hypertension, inflammation of the liver, inflammation of the prostate, eye inflammation, vaginal discharge, ulcers, fatigue, pain joints and refine the skin.

For the treatment of diabetes mellitus, 3 pieces of red betel leaf and a half older than the sixth or seventh leaf from the shoot. Wash all the leaves, then slice into small pieces. Boil the water 3 cups (600ml) to boil and remaining 1.5 cups. Then drink this red betel leaf decoction three times daily before meals, to drink 0.5 glasses.

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Mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni Jacq.)

Mahogany is found growing wild in the forests of teak, in places close to the beach or planted on the roadside as a tree protector. These plants come from the West Indies and can thrive in brackish sand near the beach.

Mahogany tree height 5-25 m, the stem is round, much branching, resinous wood and roots upside. Even-pinnate compound leaves. Strands of egg-shaped leaves children, the tip and the base tapering, flat edge, bone pinnate leaves, 3-15 cm long. Young leaves are red, after dark to be green. Compound interest is composed of essays that came out of leaf armpit. Mother flower stalk cylindrical, light brown. Petals off one another, spoon-shaped, green. Cylindrical crown, brownish yellow, the stamens attached to the crown, the head of white stamens and yellow brown. Mahogany flowering after the age of 7 years. The fruit is a fruit box, egg-shaped, five-grooved, brown. Seeds flat, black or brown.

 Mahogany is a producer of hardwood trees and used for household furniture and goods engraving. Mahogany can be propagated by seed.

Mahogany contain saponin and flavonoida. Parts used are the dried seeds, then finely ground to a powder. Seeds are used for treatment: high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes mellitus, no appetite, rheumatism, fever, colds and eczema.

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Pasak bumi (Eurycoma longifolia)

Pasak bumi or often known by the name of tongkat ali. Pasak bumi is a kind of tree found in the forests of Malaysia and Indonesia. Pasak bumi is a kind of plant which is said to have materials to help those facing the problem of lust.

This herbaceous plant can reach 10 meters in height so that the hedge low land forest. Typically, lush leaves at the end of the rod.Most of these trees are not branched, if the branching is too little of one or two branches only. The flowers are arranged densely on branched stems, which came out from the base of the leaf.

Plant part used is the root and stem bark. This plant's roots and bitter skin. After cleaning, the roots of pasak bumi are stored in a dry place. If you want to use it, the root is brewed with warm water and left in place for some time. This plant root steeping water and then drunk. While the plant stem bark powder was used as medicinal herbs. Herb of pasak bumi on the market, usually mixed with other ingredients such as ginseng, ginger or other materials.

The content of ethanolic extracts in pasak bumi to increase the amount of male hormone testosterone. Ethanolic stimulating hormone chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) to help the formation of testosterone. Plant roots also contain brusin and a nutritious strichnin add vitality to men because it is afrodisiaka. That is a traditional herb that is claimed to stimulate the libido.

Based on research, afrodisiaka plant contains saponins, alkaloids, tannins, and other compounds that can physiologically blood circulation in the central nervous system or peripheral blood circulation. The effect is to increase blood circulation to the male genitalia. But new research conducted at this stage afrodisiaka content. Not until the effectiveness afrodisiaka to treatment of erectile dysfunction. But afrodisiaka relatively safer than chemical drugs. For the hose and the muck, does not force such as chemical drugs.

Efficacy of plant roots is apparently not only limited to these. Roots are also able to treat malaria. Because the roots contained a potent compound erikomanon treat malaria. While kuasinoid compound on Pasak bumi roots can paralyze falcifarum plasmodium. That is the bacteria that live in the body Anopeles Female mosquitoes cause malaria. Keep in mind, plasmodium that enter the human body can damage and destroy red blood cells.

Besides as enhancing the vitality of men and antimalarial, pasak bumi turns out to also prevent the attack of cancer. Kuasinoid and alkaloid compounds contained in Pasak bumi proved to inhibit cancer cell growth according to a study conducted by Abdul Razak Mohd Ali from the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia. As many as 8 alkaloid found in the roots of pasak bumi, one 9-methoxycanthin 6 which serves as an anticancer breast.

Research conducted by the Department pf Pharmacognocy, Tokyo College of Pharmacy & the Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo University, Japan. Finding antileukimia from pasak bumi compounds. In addition, pasak bumi is also useful to boost immunity to HIV sufferers.

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Ling zhi (Ganoderma lucidium)

Ling zhi is a type of fungus that has a fruit body. Forms of Ling Zhi mushroom fruit body like a spoon, so people often give the name of this plant as the fungus spoon.

Ling Zhi mushroom has a stem that extends deep into the substrate with a length of 30-10 cm. At the end of the shaft there are fruiting bodies shaped like a half circle which widened the diameter of 10-20 cm. When I was young, body-colored fruit that is yellowish at the age of 12 months, then turn red or dark brown. Fruit body is then taken to be used as raw material for the manufacture of medicines, including herbal manufacture.

Judging from the nature of life, including fungi saprofitik this plant, because it grows on dead stems or sawdust sawn timber. In addition, this fungus is parasitic because it sometimes grows on trees that are still alive.

In general, the life cycle of mushrooms as ling zhi mushroom species in a large family polyporaceae. Spores of the fungus that has been cooked, if located in damp areas will grow and germinate to form fine fibers such as cotton, called mycelium.

At first, primary mycelia will grow, then grow into secondary mycelia.From the collection will form primordia mycelia (fungal fruiting bodies will). Will fungal fruiting bodies were then enlarged and form fruiting bodies.

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Galangal (Languas galangal)

This plants have a scientific name languas galangal. Galangal from areas of tropical Asia, but also there is an opinion from Bengla (India).Galangal plants grown in the lowlands and highlands until at an altitude of 1200 m above sea level. Growing up in a protected area but got enough sunlight.

Galangal herb is a plant which grows sturdy, high between 1.5 - 2.5 m. stem ginger is soft because of the fictitious bar formed from the set-midrib leaf midrib. There are two types of galangal, namely galangal rhizome which has a white color and a reddish rhizomes.

Rhizome white has a fine fiber, while the reddish-colored rhizome has a rather coarse fibers. The leaves of this herb on the surface of the shiny green upper and lower surfaces pale green. Leaves form a thin, long round with a pointed tip. On the edge of the leaf is usually seen little white lines and a bit hard. The leaves at the base usually do not have leaves, but only the midrib.

Plants that were old enough issue greenish white flowers. Interest will be out when the plant is quite old, growing from the tip of the plant. The flowers and petals erect bell-shaped, greenish white, long and slender-stemmed.

Content of substances contained in plants of this herb is essential oil of greenish yellow color and distinctive smell and taste bitter galangal. The content of the oil attrition, among others methyl cinnamaat 48%, cineol 20% - 30%, camphor, d-alpha-pinen, galangin, and eugenol 3% - 4%. It also contained other substances, such as galangol, hydrates hexahydorcadalene, camphor, sesquiterpene, yellow crystals, and cadinine.

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Kencur (Kaempferia galanga L.)

Kencur is one species of medicinal plants belonging to the tribe Zingiberaceae. Rhizome of this plant contains essential oils and alkaloids are used as a stimulant. Other names are cekur (Malaysia) and pro hom (Thailand). In the international literature (English) frequently occurs in chaos by calling kencur as lesser galangal (Alpinia officinarum) and zedoary (Intersection white), which is actually a different species and is not a substitute spices.

Kencur a small gathering that flourished in the lowlands or mountains where the land is loose and not too much water. The number of strands of leaf kencur no more than 2-3 pages dealing with the composition. The leaves are dark green herbs seem fresh and have a thick surface smooth serts. The flowers are arranged and a half sitting with a crown of flowers amounted to between 4 to 12 pieces, lip berwara violet flowers with white color is more dominant. These herbaceous plants have rhizomes that grow in a clustered and branch out, sometimes the tubers can occur at ground level. Rhizome dark brown and shiny, when cleaved will appear bright white flesh colored rhizome.

This plant grows well in the rainy season. This herb can be grown in pots or in gardens that enough sunlight, not too wet and in the open.

The content of substances in kencur
Content of substances contained in these herbs that is, alcohol, oil-laden attrition cineol, camphor, minerals, starch, and gums. In a dose of about 1.5 grams to 5 grams, kencur can be used to:

• Ekspektoransia, namely as a drug to relieve the cough with phlegm
• Diaforetika, namely to launch a sweat.
• Karminativa, namely to smooth exhaust gas from the stomach.
• Stimulant, namely to increase the excitement.

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Temulawak (Curcuma xanthorriza Roxb)

Temulawak an herb native to Indonesia. This plant includes a trunked plant seeds are soft and not woody with a height between 0.5 m to 2.5 m.

Stem of this plant is a pseudo stem formed by the combination between a cohesive base of the leaf. Dark green leaves are lancet-shaped elongated with brown stripes. Herbaceous plants flower is white or mixed red and yellow have a short and wide sizes. Temulawak rhizome is large and round with the outer skin is reddish brown or dark yellow, while the flesh-colored rhizome old orange or brown.

Chemical constituents contained in the rhizome Temu lawak is essential oil (which is charged felandren and turmerol), substance curcumin and starch. With the existence of such substances, this herbaceous plant can function as an anti-inflammatory and anti hepatotosik.

Temulawak pulp can be used to restore the body for people who are recovering from illness. For the manufacture of pulp temulawak used grated rhizome. Grated rhizome is mixed with water, then squeezed. Once squeezed, the water filter was deposited to obtain starch (flour). Before you make porridge, flour is washed until the color and sense of bitterness disappears. To get a delicious taste, usually temulawak flour cooked together coconut milk, brown sugar, and a little cinnamon.

Meanwhile, to restore the condition of the body caused by unusual fatigue, enough with the grate 50 grams of rhizome temulawak then boiled with water until boiling. After a cold, drink the cooking water 2 times a day @ 1 cup.

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Lemongrass (Cymbopogon nardus (L.) Rendle)

Lemongrass the Latin name Cymbopogon nardus (L.) Rendle, is one of the typical plants of Indonesia. This plant usually grows in the lowlands at an altitude of 60-140 m above sea level. These plants include grasses with roots that are very strong and deep. Trunk erect or inclined, forming clumps, short, massive, round (cylindrical), often bare below his book waxy, red stem transection. Its flower panicles or grains composite compound, stemmed or sit, leafy (real protector), usually the same color, usually white.

Substances contained in lemongrass leaves is: 0.4% volatile oil with a component consisting of sitral, sitronelol (66-85%), (a-pinen, kamfen, sabinen, mirsen, ß-felandren, p-Simen , limonene, cis-osimen, terpinol, citronellal, borneol, terpinen-4? ol, a-terpineol, geraniol, farnesol, methyl heptenon, n-desialdehida, dipenten, methyl heptenon, bornilasetat, geranilformat, terpinil acetate, acetic sitronelil, geranil acetate, ß-element, ß-kariofilen, ß-bergamoten, trans-metilisoeugenol, ß-kadinen, elemol, kariofilen oxide. In other studies found in the leaf essential oil of 1% with the major components (+) sitronelol, geranial (approximately 35 % and 20%), besides that, there are also geranil butyrate, sitral, limonene, eugenol, and metileugenol. Sitronelol isolated from lemongrass essential oil consisting of a pair of enantiomers (R)-citronellal and (S) citronellal. On the other Cymbopogon species ( Cymbopogon giganteus chiovenda) contains essential oils consisting of limonene, p-Mentha-1, 5, 8-trien; 1.2 limonenoksida, p-Mentha-2 ,8-dien-l-ol; Dean-2, 4dien-l -ol, p-metilasetofenon; trans-p-menta-1 (7), 8dien-2-ol; Decan-2, 4-dienal; isopiperitenol; cis-p.menta-1 (7), 8-dien-2 -ol, cis carveol; carvone; isopiperitenon; cuminil alcohol; perililaldehid; perilil alcohol.(yulius eka agung seputra. “Artikel Kesehatan Alternatif”).

Curable Disease:

Roots: used as a laxative urine, sweat bullets, bullets sputum / cough medicine, materials for mouthwash, and body warmers.

Leaves: used as a laxative wind stomach, appetite enhancer, post-natal treatment, lowering the heat and strain relief.

How to use lemon grass plants for heating the body:

5 grams of fresh root of this herb, washed and boiled with 1 cup water for 15 minutes, then drink 2 times a day each? Each 1 / 2 cup, morning and afternoon.

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Turmeric (Curcuma domestica val)

Turmeric is one of the potential of medicinal plants. Turmeric is a herbaceous plant which was annual.  Plants grow upright achieve high ranging between 1 to 1.5 m. This herb has a rod-ridden by the pseudo-stem of the leaf midrib. Spiky leaves of this plant and slippery with about 30 cm long and 8 cm wide. Saffron flowers appear when the plant is quite old. Flowers emerge from the pseudo stem with a length of about 10-15 cm. Color white or white flowers striped green and sometimes pink edges.

The main part of this plant is a rhizome in the soil. It usually grows creeping rhizome and rhizome parent usually elliptical in shape.  If the roots are peeled will look flesh colored orange, bitter taste, and aroma typical of turmeric.

Turmeric is a type of herb that contains chemical compounds, the volatile oil and curcuminoids. Essential oils are chemical compounds containing sesquiterpenes alcohol, turmeron and zingiberen. Curcuminoids curcumin compound containing a yellow covering desmetoksi bisdesmetoksi-curcumin and curcumin.  In addition, turmeric rhizomes contain starch, gums, and gum.  While that gives fragrant aroma and flavor are typical in the rhizome essential oil.

Rhizome of this herb is very useful as an anticoagulant, lowers blood pressure, de-worming, asthma drugs, blood booster, to treat abdominal pain, liver disease, carminative, stimulant, rashes, insect bites, diarrhea and rheumatism.

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Bangle (Zingiber purpureum Roxb)

Bangle is known by the name Zingiber purpureum Roxb or Zingiber cassumunar originated in India. These plants grow clumps, height reached 1.5 m. Herbaceous stem is a rod composed of a collection of pseudo-midrib dayn and has particularly not stalk. Lancet-shaped leaves are slender and tapering to the tip. The surface of the leaves limp, thin and not hairy. Rhizome short round bangle and segmented, each segment there are buds. Outer skin is brown rhizome of this plant is young, if the split will appear flesh-colored rhizome yellow like gold. It smells peculiar and sharp, rancid and bitter taste spicy.

Flower bangle is compound interest, the form of bunches, exit at the end of the rod, the length of the handle up to 20 cm. section containing the flower shape is oval length 60-10 cm and width 4-5 cm. leaf petals arranged like scales thick, tube-shaped petals, three serrated edge, and the color red. Flower lips elongated round shape, the color white.

Chemical substances contained in these plants is essential oil (cineol and pinen), resin, starch, and tannins.
Bangle is used for traditional herbal medicine. Although it smells pretty rancid, but not a few people who use it because of his usefulness. Savor bangle for health are as follows:

Fever and colds
Take 15 grams of the fresh rhizome bangle, washed and shredded.Add ½ cup hot water and 2 tablespoons of honey. After being mixed evenly and then squeezed and filtered for drinking water. Perform 2 times daily.

Stomach churning
The material include bangle rhizome, ginger rhizome, kencur, and lempuyang fragrant, (respectively ½ finger). The material is washed and sliced thin. Boil with a glass of water until the remaining ½ cup.Once cool, filtered and drunk.

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Temu hitam (Curcuma aeruginosa Roxb)

Quite a lot spisies of this curcuma plant, one of which is temu hitam or Curcuma aeruginosa Roxb. Although this herb from Burma, but can flourish in other tropical regions, especially in Indo-Malesia including Indonesia.

Temu hitam herbaceous plants that can be annual old, has green stems, which is apparent because the stem is formed from a collection of the leaf midrib. Higher plants can reach 2 meters. Leaves dark green to dark purplish brown. Lanceolate leaf shape widens and has a thin strand of leaves with visible leaf veins.

If this plant is old, will grow flowers from the side pseudo stem. The color red flower crown, while the flowers are white, yellowish and some are colored red. Rhizome branched out a lot. Shaped rhizome slender, slightly curved edges with a diameter of 1-4 cm. Rhizome large and branched and shiny yellow with red rhizome tip. While the flesh-colored rhizome dark blue and temu hitam issued a distinctive aroma.

Chemical constituents contained in the rhizome of this herb is a plant essential oil, a substance starch, resin, tannins, and a blue dye. Temu hitam is used for traditional medicinal and alternative food cassava or corn. Other efficacy of temu hitam was among others to treat skin diseases, increase appetite, treat eczema, blood booster for new mothers, and others.

To treat skin diseases (eg scabies, rash, and ulcers), the roots of this herb plant crushed and then mixed with coconut oil. Pasta is affixed to the body of the sick. In order to more quickly recover should drink boiled water rhizome of temu hitam. How to make this stew is the rhizome of temu hitam plus rhizome ginger (about the size of the index finger) was boiled with a glass of water until boiling. After a cold boiled water is filtered and drunk.

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