Benefits of Kalanchoe Pinnata Pers

Duck bill in Latin is known by the name of Kalanchoe pinnata Pers. The leaves are quite thick, in addition contains a lot of water, also keeps a variety of chemicals that are beneficial to health.

A health site, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, said that bufadienolides contained in the bill has antitumor duck.

Research conducted, showed that the isolation of five bufadienolides of leaf duck bill has the effect of inhibiting the activation of early antigen Epstein-Barr virus (EBV-EA) in Raji cells which caused by the tumor.

Besides bufadienolides, duck bill which has slightly sour flavor, soft, and cool it also contains lemon acid, apple acid, vitamin C, alkaloids, flavonoids, quercetin-3-diarabinoside, and kaempferol-3-glucoside. Chemical constituents makes duck bill could be used for various treatments.

Duck bill in addition to antitumor also has anti-inflammatory properties, stop bleeding, reduce swelling, and accelerate wound healing. Chinese society is often used as an ingredient to a duck bill digestive problems, vomiting blood, and disorders of the ear or throat.

Later, the duck bill is also used to treat trauma injuries resulting from accidents, bruising, or bleeding. This is mainly due to the nature of the bill leaves the cold duck.

For asthma
Community in the Bahamas often uses cool leaves, called duck bill, to cope with asthma or respiratory disorders. Then, the tea drunk duck bill to address a burning feeling in the chest. Tea is also as an antibacterial for bruises or wounds on the hands. Actually, the part that is often used as a medicinal herb is the leaf.

However, not a few concoctions that use the entire plant duck bill. Until now there has been a result of side effects reported using the duck bill.

Even so, some literature suggests to not use these herbs in people who have disorders of the digestive function. As in some people with sensitive skin, use of herbs directly on the skin can cause itching or cause blisters.

Therefore, if you want to use as herb medicine duck bill, you should consult beforehand with the herbalist.

Some practical herb duck bill of Ir Winarto, an expert on medicinal plants, the following could be an option to resolve some complaints.

For external use:

Wound
Duck bill leaves to taste grated or ground. Add a little water and smeared on the body part injured. Replace every three hours.

Stomach churning
Some of the leaf blade dadap serep leaves pounded with some duck bill. Give a little water. Then the mixture was smeared on the belly.

Lowers fever
Pulverized leaf duck bill, then smeared on the forehead. Use twice daily.

Sores or bruising
Destroy 30-60 grams of leaves and then squeeze the duck bill. Add honey and drink. Time leaves affixed on the sick.

Inflammation of the outer ear
5-10 pulverized leaf duck bill, wring it out. The water is used as ear drops.

Tonsillitis
5-10 pulverized leaf duck bill. Take the water and use as a mouthwash.

Savor Carambola

Carambola (Averrhoa pentandra) have various properties to cure various diseases, such as:


Mumps
Take 10 young twigs following starfruit leaves and 4 red onions. Rinse and then finely ground. Smeared to a hospital.

Pimple
a. Take the star fruit to taste, washed and then finely ground, then squeezed with salt water as necessary. Use to rub facial acne. Do it 3 times a day.

b. Grab 6 wuluh star fruit and 1 / 2 teaspoon of sulfur powder, finely ground and then squeezed with 2 tablespoons lime juice. Use to rub facial acne. Do it 2-3 times a day.

Panu
Take 10 star fruit, washed and finely ground, add the sour seeds of whiting, kneaded until smooth. This herb is used to rub the affected skin fungus skin. Perform 2 times daily.

Meanwhile, for use in such a drink, it takes a special way.

Cough
Take a handful of star fruit flowers, a few grains of fennel, sugar to taste and 1 cup water. All materials are steamed for several hours, remove and let cool. Strain, then drink two times, morning and evening on an empty stomach.

Or, take the 25 flowers starfruit, 1 finger bells Intersection rhizome, cinnamon bark 1 finger, 1 finger rhizome kencur, 2 red onions, 1 / 4 handheld Centella asiatica, 1 / 4 handful sage leaves, 1 / 4 handheld rue leaves , 1 / 4 handheld leaf spoon, washed and cut as necessary, boiled with 5 cups water until the remaining 2 1 / 4 cup. Once cool, filtered boiled water, add a little honey. Drink 3 times a day, each 3 / 4 cup.

Whooping cough
Take 10 star fruit, washed and finely ground to powder, and then squeezed with 2 tablespoons salt water, then filtered. Taken 2 times a day.

Sprue
a. Take a handful of star fruit flowers, palm sugar to taste and 1 cup of boiling water until thick. After chilling filtered, use to clean and lubricate the mouth sores.

b. Take 2 / 3 interest handheld leatherback, washed and boiled in 3 cups water until the remaining 2 1 / 4 cup. After chilling filtered, then taken 3 times a day, each 3 / 4 cup.

c. Take 3 pieces of star fruit, red onion 3 eggs, 1 nutmeg young, 10 leaves sprue, 3 / 4 teaspoon fennel, 3 / 4 finger pulosari, washed and finely ground, kneaded with 3 tablespoons of coconut oil, squeezed and then filtered. Used for greasing the wounds caused thrush, 6-7 times daily.

Efficacy of fruits around us

Today's modern lifestyle influenced the daily life style of Indonesian society. One is the consumption of fast food or junk food. In this post I will explain the efficacy of fruits that may have been left behind by some of our communities who berungsi as a natural medicine or traditional medicine : Apples, Avocado and Banana

1. Apple
Apples contain lots of Vitamin B and C, minerals: Calcium, phosphorus, iron and chlorine.

Benefits of apple:

•  Reduces constipation or constipation, improves digestion
•  Reduce gallstones and artitis (rheumatoid arthritis)
•  Reduce cholesterol
•  Good for healthy gums

2. Avocado Fruit
Avocados are rich in vitamins B and C are also minerals: calcium, phosphorus also iron. Fat is also rich in fat is beneficial for the cardiovascular system.

Efficacy of avocados:

•  Nutritious high that contain a lot of fat, vitamins and minerals
•  Beneficial for reducing inflammation of the abdominal wall
•  Reduces inflammation of the digestive system

3. Bananas
Bananas are rich in vitamins B and C, as well as minerals such as calcium, sodium, magnesium and potassium.

Efficacy of bananas:

•  Good for children / adults who have problems with appetite and digestion
•  Bananas are ripe to reduce diarrhea
•  Good for reducing inflammation of the stomach and intestines
•  Bananas are high-energy foods due to high sugar content in it

Traditional Medicines for Skin Diseases

Various skin diseases such as tinea versicolor, ringworm, ringworm is not foreign to the people of Indonesia.
Beberpa traditional medicines that are often used for treatment of skin diseases that go round:

Scabies, itch
For external treatment, just take the leaves, bark, stems, or roots regards as necessary. Rinse and finely milled until menjad dough like mush. Smeared into place that itch, and then bandaged.
ulcers, wounds, and warts

• Spread with fruit juice monkey guava or cashew nuts ( Anarcadium occidentale L ) for several days until the wound dries
• For warts, petiklah 5 pieces LEAF DEWA , pounded leaves until smooth. Leaf smear that has been refined in the space warty, make up to tape, leave one day and drop to the next day

Variety of skin disease
For patients with skin diseases, itching, and sores, which must be blended concoction is Biduri leaves and coconut oil to taste. The leaves were spread with coconut oil, then dilayukan upon ignition. After that, the leaves attached to the skin of the wound or itching. Before treatment, the wound washed with warm water or alcohol 70%.

Ulcers, eczema, and skin diseases
Strand crown lotus flower is burned, will produce ash which also efficacious as a medicine. This ash can be used as an external medicine to cure boils, eczema, and skin diseases. While the powders and lotus stamen when mixed with honey and cheese will be a cure hemorrhoids.

Scabies in Children
Children who are exposed to scabies recommended brotowali bath with boiling water. How to make water decoction: take stem brotowali 1m, the chopped or cut kecil2, boiled with 4 liters of water to boil, put the cooking water into emberdan dinngin add water, bathe the child while soaking his body.

Eczema

•  Grate the ginger rhizome, and the squeeze
•  Mix with the grated radish
•  Apply the mixture to the skin of eczema

Galangal to: Panu, ringworm, scabies, sores, ulcers
Treatment: Treatment outside, where topical pain
Method: - Mash finely with garlic galangal rhizome (1:4 ratio, 1 garlic rhizome 4) to a pulp

•  Apply / paste in place of the sick
•  For ringworm who have chronic, add this ingredient with vinegar
•  To Panu: provide fresh ginger, minced to arise fiber, rub on the affected part

Efficacy of Betel Leaves

Betel leaves are very popular because of properties that can cure various illnesses, from nose bleeds (bleeding from the nose) until the diarrhea and sore teeth

Nosebleed
Take one sheet of betel leaf, while in the press to roll out its oil and use it to clog the nose that issued darh

Diarrhea
Take 4-6 pieces of betel leaf, 6 grains of pepper, 1 tablespoon of coconut oil.
Mash all ingredients together until smooth, then rub on the abdomen. Repeat until cured

Toothache
Treatment: In the mouthwash
1. betel leaves boiled with 2 cups water to boil and then cool in the cooking water.
Use the cooking water to rinse. Repeated regularly until healed.
2. Take 2 pieces of betel leaf that has been crushed, salt to taste.

Way, tersebuh material brewed with hot water as much as 1 cup, then stir until the salt dissolves, let it cool. Water is used for rinsing.

Allergy
Treatment: outside, in dab on the itching part
Ingredients: 6 pieces of betel leaf, 1 slice of ginger yellow, 1.5 tablespoons of eucalyptus oil.

How, all of the material is ground together until smooth, then rubbed on the body that itch.

Bronchitis
Take the 7 pieces of betel leaf and 1 slice of rock candy.

Way, betel leaves finely chopped, then boiled with rock sugar with 2 cups water to boil down to 1 cup, and then filtered. Cooking water taken 3 times a day, each 3 tablespoons.

Whitish
Take 7-10 betel leaves.

Way, betel leaves boiled with 2.5 liters of water to boiling. While still warm, boiled water betel leaf is used to wash and clean up around the genitals repeatedly.