ASAM JAVA

Latin name is Tamarindus Indica L. despite the high tree, leaves the finned that even small. Acid or acid tree of Java is often planted on the edge of the road in the lowlands. Delicious tamarind pulp. Brown fruit skin, flesh is white when young and after dark greenish to brown. The fruit flesh can be used to preserve food, make the syrup, even to clean metal objects that changed color black.

Pulp elderly are sometimes treated to last long. Because the color becomes blackish sometimes called kawak acid.

Acid derived from Javanese family: Caesalpiniaceae

Ingredients and benefits: pulp contains a variety of acids (tatrat acid, malate acid, citric acid, acid suknisat, asenat acid) that facilitate large water fruit. Also bias circulation and cooling. While efficacious leaves smooth bowel movements and relieve pain, because it contains flavonoids, also anti-inflammatory. He also helped out in sweat.

Uses:

1. To cure ulcers:

Kawak acid (acid pulp ripe Java that has been processed and it is black rather than brown) for quail eggs soaked in 1 cup of water that expands, 5 slices of ginger are washed before sliced palm sugar for the sweetener. All that water boil to half. Taken 1x a day until healed.

For embedded: Acid kawak for quail eggs, a little salt and a little oil mixed and pulverized. Attach to a boil.



2. To treat acne:

Sambiloto 12 leaves, 10 slices of ginger, kencur 5 cm, 1 teaspoon of fennel (Foeniculum vulgare mill or fennel or venkel), 10 leaves cumin, all washed. Sour mash with quail eggs kawak registration. Give 1 ½ cup water, strained and pressed pulp with a cloth. Drinking 3x a day.

For exterior drug: Java acids were given clean water, knead, filtered and the water used to wash her face when going to sleep tonight.



3. To cure ulcers:

1 cup young tamarind leaves, 5 cm piece turmeric, all washed, sliced turmeric. Simmer with 4 cups of water until the water a half. So it felt good to be added during boiling palm sugar, then filtered, drinking in the morning and sore.Ulangi until a few days.



4. To treat measles:

1 cup sour leaves, fresh turmeric rhizome 3 is washed, sliced, a little salt and palm sugar. All boiled with 2 cups of water until the water a half. Drunk in the morning and afternoon.



5. To cure ulcers:

Tamarind seeds are washed, peeled, crushed, stick to the ulcer.

GALANGAL (LENGKUAS)

Galangal (Alpinia galangal or galanga galanga) is often used by women known as food seasoning. Galangal including high upright plant stems reach 2-2,5 meters. Galangal can live in the lowlands to highlands, approximately 1200 meters above sea level. There are 2 kinds of plants known as galangal is a rhizome varieties tubers (roots) in white and red bulbs vaaritas berimpang. Galangal berimpang white bulbs used this food flavorings, are red bulbs berimpang galangal used as medicines. Galangal has a tree structure consisting of stem-leaf midrib. Leaves elliptical, and the leaves are at the bottom of stem of stem-only, while the upper stem of stem-leaf stem with leaves. The flowers appear at the end of the plant. Galangal rhizome tuber than crude fiber also has a distinctive aroma. A. Growing Conditions Climate 1. Elevation: 1 - 1200 m above sea level 2. Annual rainfall: 2500 - 4000 mm / year 3. Wet months (above 100 mm / month): 7 - 9 months 4. Dry months (below 60 mm / month): 3 - 5 months 5. Temperatures: 29 'C - 25' C. 6. Humidity: was 7. Radiation: high b. Land 1. Type: latosol red-brown, andosol, alluvial. 2. Texture: berliat loam, sandy clay, red clay, lateristik. 3. Drainage: well 4. Ground water depth: 50 - 100 cm from the ground 5. Rooting depth: 10 - 30 cm from the ground 6. Fertility: moderate - high

Local Name:
Greater galingale (UK), galangal (Indonesia); Laos (Java), Laja (Sunda);

Curable Disease:
Rheumatism, spleen pain, sexual desire, appetite, bronchitis; Morbili, Panu;

Utilization:
1. Rheumatic
a. Ingredients: 2 galangal rhizome of thumb and 1 egg chicken
home
How to make: galangal grated and squeezed to take water,
raw chicken eggs broken to take yellow,
then the material until evenly dioplos.
How to use: 1 times daily drink

b. Ingredients: 3 galangal rhizome of thumb, 0.5 teaspoon ground
pepper, 1 slice of brown sugar, and 2 cups coconut water
How to make: all of these ingredients boiled together
up to 1 cup water to stay
How to use: drink little by little over 1 week

2. Spleen pain
Ingredients: 2 galangal rhizome of thumb, 3 rhizome tuber
thumb of ginger and 1 handful of leaves Meniran
How to make: all of these ingredients with 3 cups boiling water
to boiling
How to use: 2 times a day drink 1 cup, morning and afternoon.

3. Instilling Passion Sex
Ingredients: 2 bulbs galangal rhizome of thumb, 3 rhizome tuber
thumb of ginger and 2 pieces of lime, 1 teaspoon pepper,
1 teaspoon salt and 1 yeast tape.
Method: galangal and ginger root grated and squeezed to
water is taken, then dioplos with materials other
with 0.5 cups of water until thoroughly cooked.
How to use: drunk.

4. Generating Appetite
a. Ingredients: 1 galangal rhizome of thumb, 3 fruit mengkudu
raw, rhizome 0.5 kencur registration thumb, 0.5 teaspoon
ground coriander, 1 clove garlic, tamarind 3 eyes Javanese
the cook, 1 slice of brown sugar, jakeling, jalawe and jarahab.
How to make: all of these ingredients with 2 cups boiling water
not boil down to 1 cup
How to use: drink 2 glasses of 0.5 times a day, morning and afternoon.

b. Ingredients: 1 galangal rhizome tuber of thumb, 1 rhizome
thumb of ginger, 1 Meniran plant trees and little
fennel pulawaras.
How to make: all of these ingredients with 3 cups boiling water
to boiling
How to use: drink 3 times a day

5. Bronchitis
Material: galangal rhizome tuber, ginger and ginger (each
2 rimoang) for the thumb, keningar, 1 handful of leaves, a horse whip,
Slobber 0.5 handheld leaf, cinnamon leaf to taste.
How to make: all the material smooth then pounded
boiled with 3 cups water to boiling
How to use: drink 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.

6. Morbili
Ingredients: 4 galangal rhizome tuber of thumb, 1 teaspoon
eucalyptus oil, and 2 teaspoons oil gondopura.
Method: finely grated galangal root, then mixed
with the other ingredients until smooth.
How to use: used for external medication.

7. Panu
a. Material: galangal rhizome and tubers sufficiently whiting
How to make: the ingredients are pounded until smooth
Way using: rubbed on the affected part, morning and
afternoon.

b. Material: galangal rhizome and spirtus
Method: galangal rhizome cut.
How to use: the affected part is rubbed with a brush
galangal slices, then smeared with spirtus

Composition:
Chemical compounds contained in such Lenguas galanga contain essential oils, the oil fly, eugenol, seskuiterpen, pinen, methyl sinamat, kaemferida, dock, galangol and yellow crystals.

source: article-alternatif.blogspot.com

HONEY, COUGH MEDICINES

One tablespoon of honey has been known to help relieve cough and children at night helps them sleep better, as published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, December 2007 edition.

Honey is used around the world as a traditional medicine for coughs, and is an alternative safe and effective as cough medicine.

There are several reasons honey can cure cough: the quality of the sweet syrup of honey throat, while the elements of antioxidants of honey is also a cough suppressant factor. In addition, honey has antimicrobial effects.

But it should be noted also, that honey is not recommended for infants under one year, because of rare but serious risks that can cause a type of botulism food poisoning. But for children older, are generally quite safe to use honey. Regarding its use in accordance with the dose of cough medicine usual recommendations:

* 2-5 years: Â ½ teaspoon,
* 6-11 years: 1 teaspoon,
* 12 years and over: 2 teaspoons.

If it can provide benefits, why not for the tried. Regarding efficacy and effective or not, wallahualam.

AVOCADO

Tree fruit from Central America, grows wild in the forests, many are also grown in gardens and on lawns tananhnya layer loose and fertile, and not inundated by water. Although be fruitful in the lowlands, but the results will be satisfactory if planted at an altitude of 200-1000 m above sea level (asl), in the tropics of the many subtropik rainfall.
Small tree, 3-10 m high, steep rooted, woody stems, round, dirty-brown color, much branched, smooth-haired twigs. Single leaf, stemmed 1,5-5 cm long, dirty, lying huddled at the end of twigs, shape round, ellipse until the eggs lengthwise, like a thick skin, a pointed tip and base, flat edge sometimes slightly rolled up, boned pinnate, 10-20 cm long, 3-10 cm wide, young leaves reddish color and tight-haired, dark green leaves and bare.
The interest compound interest, androgynous, arranged in panicles that came out near the end of twigs, greenish yellow color. The fruit is fruit buni, form a ball or oval, 5-20 cm long, green or yellowish green, mottled purple or violet seeds Sarna was one, flesh soft when ripe, green, yellow. Seed round like a ball, the diameter of 2,5-5 cm, pieces of red and white beans. Ripe avocado fruit flesh is soft, fat, usually eaten as ice or created juice mix. oil is used among others for cosmetic purposes. Propagation by seed, grafting and way way Enten.

Latin Name: Persea Gaertn gratissima.
Synonym: Persea americana, Mill.

Family: Lauraceae

Local Name:
Apuket, alpuket, cashew wolanda (Sunda), Avocado, avokat,; plokat (Java). Avocado, avocado, avokat, advocate (Sumatra);

Curable Disease:
Sprue, hydrate skin scabby, bladder stones, headache; high blood (hypertension), nerve pain (neuralgia), stomach pain,; Channel swollen breath (bronchial swellings), toothache, Diabetes (diabetes mellitus), menstrual irregularities. ;

Composition:
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS pharmacological: Leaves: bitter taste, chocolate. Peluruh urine. Beans: Anti-inflammation, alleviate pain.
KANDUNGAN CHEMISTRY: Fruits and leaves contain saponin, alkaloida and flavonoida, Fruit also contains tannins and leaves contain polyphenols, quersetin, sugar alkohot persiit.

Utilization for the drug:

Leaves:
- Urine stone.
- High blood, headaches.
- Nerve pain.
- Stomach pain.
- Channels of breath swelling (bronchial swellings).
- Menstruation is not regular.

Seeds:
- Toothache.
- Diabetes.

HOW TO USE:
1. Sprue:

* The contents of the ripe avocados 2 tablespoons given pure honey, stir thoroughly and eaten. Do it every day until cured.


2. Bladder stones:

* Ingredients: 4 pieces of avocado leaves, 3 pieces puzzle rhizome, petiole 5 cottonwoods, half nut seeds, 1 nutmeg, 3 finger palm sugar.
* Method: wash and boil ingredients with 3 clean water glass until remaining 2 1 / 4 cup. After chilling filtered and drunk. Day 3 x 3 / 4 cup.


3. High blood pressure:

* Materials: 3 pieces of avocado leaves
* How to manufacture: washed and brewed with 1 cup hot water. After a cold drink at once.


4. Dry facial skin:

* Materials: Fruit ripe
* How to use: take it and then pulverized until like mush. Used to mask, in a way that dry polishing face. Front washed with water after the avocado mask layer is dry.


5. Cavities pain:

* Hole in the tooth powder is inserted avocado seed.


6. Swelling due to inflammation:

* The powder of seeds to taste plus a little water until it becomes dough like mush, balurkan body gets sick.


7. Diabetes:

* Beans roasted on the fire and then diced with the machete, then simmering with clean water until the water turns brown.
* Strain and drink when cool.


8. Good avocado leaf tea to relieve headaches, stomach pain, swelling in the airways, nerve pain (neuralgia) and came irregular menstruation.

Research data:
Leaves have antibacterial activity and inhibits the growth of Staphylococcus aureus strains A and B. Staphylococcus albus, Pseudomonas sp., Proteus sp., Escherichea coli and Bacillus subtilis (EO ognulans and E. Ramstad 1975)

(Source : http://www.smallcrab.com)

GINGER

Behind it was a spicy, ginger contains substances that are useful for the human body. No wonder there has long been known wedang (drink) ginger, ginger candy, or bandrek (ginger-containing beverages). Ginger is also a lot used as a seasoning for various foods or cookies. Benefits of ginger, based on a number of studies, among others:

Stimulates the release of adrenal hormones, widen blood vessels, so blood flows more quickly and smoothly. Body also becomes more warm, the heart pumps blood work lighter. As a result, the pressure blood into fall.

Ginger contains two important digestive enzymes. First, protease which break protein function. Second, functional lipase breaks fat. Both of these enzymes help the body digest and absorb food.

Ginger contains at least 19 bio-active components are useful for body. The main component is the nature gingerol anticoagulants, which prevent blood clotting. So preventing clogging of blood vessels, the main cause of strokes and heart attacks. Estimated Gingerol also help lower cholesterol.

Blocking serotonin, a chemical compound that is the messenger. These compounds cause the stomach to contract, arising sehigga nausea. For example in people who experience motion sickness. So, to prevent motion sickness, it's good to drink ginger wedang before traveling. Way: at-at all fresh ginger 1 segment fingers, put in a glass of hot water. Give the honey to taste, then drink. Could also use one-third teaspoon of ginger powder, or if resistant, eat two slices of raw ginger.

Make the stomach to be comfortable, and help out the wind. Can relieve menstrual cramps or cramps from too much eating fatty foods.

Helps the body fight colds and flu. Ginger contains antioxidants that help neutralize the damaging effects caused by free radicals in in the body.

Ginger is a pain reliever and can naturally relieve pain rheumatism, headaches, and migraine. Way, drinking ginger wedang 3 times day. Can also drank wedang round, suck on ginger candy, or add ginger when you make soup, stew, or rendang.

(Source: "Tabloid MOTHER & CHILD" on 02/09/99 09:05:17)

TURMERIC ( KUNIR )

Turmeric or turmeric (Curcuma longa Linn. Syn. Curcuma domestica Val.) Including one of spices and medicinal plants native from Southeast Asia region. These plants then have spread to areas of Indo-Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and even Africa. Almost everyone Indonesia and India as well as Asian nations generally have to consume this herb plants, either as a supplementary cooking, medicinal or to maintain health and beauty. Turmeric is a spice commonly used in cooking in Asian countries. Turmeric is often used in cooking curry kind, and is also used to give a yellow color to dishes. Pharmaceutical products made from raw turmeric, can compete with a variety of drug patents, for example, for inflammation of the joints (rheumatoid arthritis) or osteo-arthritis is made of active sodium deklofenak, piroksikam, and phenyl butason with a high price or food supplements (vitamin-plus) in capsule. Product so the material in the form of extract of turmeric dietary supplements in capsule form (Vitamin-plus) market and the industry has developed. Food supplements made from raw turmeric extract with additives Vitamin B1, B2, B6, B12, Vitamin E, Lecithin, Amprotab, Mg-stearic, Nepagin and Kolidon 90. Usage: root tubers are older than one year used as Ubat (root tubers are cooled, cleaned, particularly affecting the abdomen in the stomach, stimulating, releasing excess gas in the intestines, stop bleeding and prevent blood clotting) other than that is also used as an ingredient in cooking. Turmeric is also used as an anti-itch and anti-spasm and reduce the swelling of the mouth mucous membrane. Turmeric juice consumed in the form of so-called filtrate, is taken as an extract or used as a salve for mengubati bengkak.Kunyit also efficacious to cure a stuffy nose, how to burn the turmeric and inhale

Turmeric belong to the group-jahean ginger, Zingiberaceae.

(Taken from http://id.wikipedia.org/)