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Ten Types of Medicinal Plants and Benefits

Indonesia is an agricultural country known for the wealth of spices and different kinds of plants. From the past until now herbs or medicinal plants to cure various diseases. But unfortunately many Indonesian citizens now even prefer health products abroad than the country itself. In fact do not need much - much to the country of people with very expensive at all, in our country is much richer and natural in terms of treatment. Let's identify the various types of medicinal plants diIndonesia and benefits.

Medicinal Plants or what we call the herb so many kinds and benefits, ranging from lightweight able to cure diseases and even disease to disease heavyweight. In addition it also has many medicinal plants proven effective compared with drugs - drugs are mixed with chemicals. Then just have him some medicinal plants that you can use as a home Alternative Medicine.

1.Celery (Apium graveolens)


Perhaps one plant is not familiar to us, in addition to good use as a flavor enhancer turns celery also serves as a natural remedy because it is rich in calcium, phosphorus etc.
Examples of celery can be used as medicine Uric Acid. The trick Simply boiled some celery seeds to boil and drink a glass of water every morning. Celery (Apium graveolens L.) is a leaf vegetable and medicinal plant commonly used as a spice in cooking. Several countries including Japan, China and Korea use part of the petiole as a food ingredient. In Indonesia, this plant was introduced by the Dutch colonialists and used the leaves for menyedapkan soup or as a salad. The use of celery is the most complete in Europe: leaf, petiole, fruit, and tubers all harnessed.


Celery has been known for thousands of years ago as a component of treatment and flavoring dishes. salman Tua has written since the beginning of modern dating. Linnaeus first described it in the first edition of Species Plantarum. He included in the celery Umbelliferae tribe, now called Apiaceae (fennel-adasan rate).

Celery is a small herb, less than 1m in height. The leaves are arranged plump with short stalks. The stalk on certain cultivars can be very large and is sold as a vegetable separately from his mother. The trunk is usually very bantet. In particular cultivar group enlarged to form tubers, which are also edible. The flowers are arranged plural rocky. Small fruit is dark brown.


2. Blustru (Luffa Aegyptica Mill)

Blustru or commonly called the Sweet Cassava (In Sunda called Field Oyom or in Palembang called Hurung Java) is a medicinal plant that has been granted for generations. But now rarely used even most people do not know what form it Blustru plants. Blustru can be used as Asthma Drugs, washing telebih first trick leaves young blustru save over hot rice (can be stored above when cooking rice) and eat as lalaban every day.

Luffa aegyptiaca (Luffa aegyptiaca, pumpkin-labuan tribe or Cucurbitaceae), is a fruit vegetable minor (not main). Planting is usually in the yard or part of a field that is not used for other crops. Luffa aegyptiaca fruit is usually harvested when ripe and used as a cleaning sponge bath time. Young fruit can also be eaten as luffa (Luffa acutangula), relatives. Some meyebutnya as luffa.

In Indonesia, Luffa aegyptiaca have names like blustru (Malay), Hurung Java, ketolang, and timput (Palembang). In Java, known by designations such as Lopang, oyong (Sunda), bestru, blestru, and blustru. In Maluku, known by names such as: dodahala (Halmahera), petola china and long petola.

3. Tongkat Ali or Pasak Bumi (Eurycoma longifolia Jack

This plant grows in Indonesia Kalimantan area. Tongkat ali can help improve testosterone levels in men and increase sexual desire in men. It is also capable of being Premature Ejaculation Drugs. Many herbal shop sells stake this earth is usually in the form of tea, coffee, dried form.
asak earth or tongkat ali (Eurycoma longifolia) is a nutritious plant trees that can be found in the forests of Malaysia and Indonesia west.

The roots of the earth peg famous efficacious as an aphrodisiac, is considered as a herbal medicine for male virility.


Plants can reach a height of 10 meters so that the thick forest in the lowlands. Typically, lush leaves at the stem end. Most of these trees are not branched, if the fork was too little that is one or two branches only. The flowers are arranged in dense branching stalk, which came out of the leaf base.

4. Noni (Morinda citrifolia)

Noni (Morinda citrifolia) or keumeudee (Aceh); pace, kemudu, kudu (Java); cangkudu (Sunda); kodhuk (Madura); tibah (Bali) from the Southeast Asia region, belonging to the family Rubiaceae. Another name for this plant is noni (Hawaii), nono (Tahiti), Nonu (Tonga), ungcoikan (Myanmar) and ach (Hindi).

It is grown in lowland up at an altitude of 1500 m. High noni tree reaches 3-8 m, has a white flower head. The fruit is a fruit compound, which is still young and has a shiny green spots, and when the old white with black spots.



Traditionally, the people of Aceh to use noni as a vegetable and salad. The leaves are also used as an ingredient nicah peugaga which often appears as a mandatory menu iftar. Therefore, noni is often planted near homes in the countryside in Aceh. Besides noni is also frequently used as a medicine.

Noni has a different name - vary in each region in the Sunda called Cangkudu example, in Aceh called Keumeude, and in Java diseut kudu. This plant is commonly grown in Aceh in every home residents (though not all) because it is usually used as a salad ingredient or iftar menu typical of Aceh. But do you know that Noni can be Drug Coronary heart and help prevent coronary heart disease. It's easy enough noni juice and strain the juice water add a little honey and drink 2 times a day after meals.

5. Aloe Vera (Aloe Vera)

Aloe vera (Aloe vera) is a type of plant that has been known since thousands of years ago and used as fertilizer hair, wound healing, and for skin care. This plant can be found easily in the dry areas in Africa.
Along with the progress of science and technology, the benefits of aloe vera plants grown as raw material pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, as well as food and health drinks.
In general, aloe vera is one of the best-selling 10 kinds of plants in the world that have the potential to be developed as a medicinal plant and industrial raw materials.


Based on this research, the plant is rich in substances such as enzymes, amino acids, minerals, vitamins, polysaccharides and other components that are beneficial to health.

In addition, according Wahyono E and Kusnandar (2002), aloe vera as an efficacious anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and helps in cell regeneration. In addition to lowering blood sugar levels for diabetics, controlling blood pressure, stimulates the immune system to attack cancer, and can be used as nutritional support cancer, HIV / AIDS.


One of the substances contained in aloe is aloe emodin, an organic compound from the group antrokuinon that activate the insulin signal levels such as insulin-beta perceiving and -substrat1, phosphatidyl inositol-3 kinase and increases the rate of glycogen synthesis by inhibiting glycogen synthase kinase 3beta, so it is very useful to reduce the ratio of blood sugar.
In the countries of America, Australia, and Europe, today Aloe vera has also been used as a raw material health food and beverage industry.

Aloe vera / Aloe vera contains all of the vitamins except vitamin D, minerals required for the function of enzymes, saponins which act as anti-microbial and 20 of the 22 types of amino acids. In use for skin care, Aloe vera can eliminate acne, skin moisturizing, skin detoxification, elimination of scars and marks, reduce inflammation and repair and skin rejuvenation. Aloe vera also contains folic acid, which protects the immune system and the health of the body that is often reflected on the skin. With the wide array of benefits contained in aloe vera, less than optimal utilization by people who simply use it as fertilizer hair.

6. Fruit Makasar (Brucea Javanica)

Makasar fruit is erect shrubs, with a height of 1-2.5 m, and the smooth-haired yellow. This plant can also be called a small tree considering this plant can reach 10 m tingginya.Daunnya single, with pertulangan pinnate leaves, number of leaves children 5-13, located opposite, and is composed spiral.Helaian daunnnya egg-shaped oval to oblong elongated, pointed tip , base wedge-shaped, coarsely toothed edges, the upper surface is green, while the bottom surface is light green. 5-10 cm in length, and width 2-4 unbranched cm.Tulang secondary leaves and ends at the leaf nodes.

Perbungaannya emerge from axillary, hairy, small menggarpu. Now, this plant is androgynous, and is located in dense panicles, purple. The fruit including stone fruit oval, with a length of 8 mm. When fully ripe, black, and the seeds are round and white. In a study, then known is like in a branch, fruit 322.9 makasar produce fruit, and in the tree, fruit makasar produce 2292 pieces. The young fruit is green and dark-green after flowering coklat.Fase, formation, and during fruit ripening in a row is 28, 47, and 49 hari.Oleh A.P. Dharma, this plant is called amber pepper, although this plant produces a fruit called beans makasar.

This plant has a very bitter and poisonous. However, when used properly and within their rumbuhan dose is capable of being treat Diabetes Mellitus because it can lower blood sugar levels in the body.
Besides fruit Napier also capable of being Cervical Cancer Drugs, How can the brew into half a cup and drink 2-3 times a day (Many Herbal shop selling dried fruit Napier so you do not need to be hard difficult mashing or dry them yourself).

7. Starfruit (Carambola Averrhoa)

Belimbing / Belimbing Manis is a typical form of fruit-producing plants originating from Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka. Currently, the leatherback has spread to parts of Southeast Asia, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Peru, Ghana, Guyana, Tonga and Polynesia. Commercial investment business in the United States, namely in South Florida and Hawaii. In Indonesia, the fruit is iconic Depok, West Java, since 2007.

Sweet star fruit contains vitamin C, B, A, Protein, Calcium etc. Belimbing.
In addition to good taste is also capable of becoming Drugs High Cholesterol and High Blood Pressure Lowering. do not eat enough of star fruit every day after meals.

When new growth, green fruit. If cut, this fruit has a star-shaped cross section. Small grain and brown. The fruit is crunchy when eaten, sweet and slightly acidic. This fruit contains a lot of vitamin C.
One type of star fruit, called starfruit, is often used for cooking, especially to give a sour taste in cuisine.
One of the region famous for the production of leatherback is Demak, Central Java. Belimbing famous Demak large, warnaya bright yellow and tastes sweet.

8. Curcuma (Curcuma xanthorrhiza)

Curcuma (Curcuma xanthorrhiza) is a medicinal plant belonging to the tribe-finding meeting (Zingiberaceae). He is originally from Indonesia, especially Java, then spread to several places in the region biogeographic regions Malesia. Currently, most of the cultivation buffoonery is in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines in addition to plants in Southeast Asia can be found also in China, Indochina, Barbados, India, Japan, Korea, the United States and some European countries.

Name parts of Java, namely ginger, in the Sunda called koneng big, whereas in Madura called Intersection labak. This plant can grow well at low altitude 1500 meters above sea level and berhabitat in tropical forests. Curcuma rhizomes can grow and thrive in the loose soil.

Wild Ginger is a medicinal plant that contains Curcumin Indonesia useful as Anti Inflammatory or Anti Poisoning Gall. Although ginger is not capable of being Liver Cancer Drug, yet unable to stop because of the ginger ginger is able to treat Hepatitis B which acts as a major factor Liver Cancer.

9. Daun Dewa (Gynura Divaricata)

Daun Dewa has the Latin name (Gynura divaricata), the Chinese call Samsit. Plant height is about 30-40 cm, the plants upright, short leaf stems soft pentagon-shaped, with oval-shaped cross section and hairy on the outside.

Daun Dewa has a length of 20 cm, width 10 cm, with a short stalk, fleshy oval, downy, pointed leaf tip, bertoreh on the edge of the leaf and green color purple. God leaves also have compound interest growing at the stem end, lidded cup-shaped green and yellow stamens shaped needle.

Growing up in the area with an altitude of 200-800 meters above sea level (asl), leaves of the gods breed with root or stem cuttings.

Quite often when improper handling, leaves of the gods could be attacked by pests. One pest that often attacks the leaves of the gods is the mealybug. Pest control efforts can use natural pesticides or pesticide plant. We can make their own pesticide plant using neem leaves, roots tuba, and tobacco. By way of finely ground, then soaked in water and left overnight. The next day the mixture was filtered, then dissolved with warm water. The result is sprayed in the morning or evening when the weather is sunny, no rain, which would eliminate the pests repellent properties. Avoid spraying during the day, due to the scorching sun could decompose the organic pesticide active ingredients.

Kinds of fertilizers that can be used to plant leaf god is manure from cow dung, goat, buffalo or chicken, and organic or natural fertilizers such as compost.

God leaves can be harvested after leaves have a wide cross-section of dark green and perfectly shaped. Decision leaves with a knife that had been cleaned, while harvesting the tubers can be done after the plant was 6-8 months. At this stage of the bulbs are ready for sowing in order to reproduce the plant leaves of the gods.


10. Ricinus communis 

Ricinus communis is a wild plant year (annual) and commonly found in forests, fallow land, in coastal areas, but often also grown in plantations. These plants are classified as herbaceous plant, has a single leaf menjari between 7-9, 10-40 cm in diameter. This plant is a plant species from Euphorbiaceae and belong to the genus Ricinus, subtribe Ricininae.

The term for jatropha in Indonesia vary in each region. In West Java called 'Kaliki'. In Sumatra, a distance known as the Dulang there is also a call to Gloah. In Madura, the distance is called Kalek.
Commonly called Kaliki in West Java and Sumatra Dulang in Kalek Dimadura. Distance memuliki benefits on karnya as anti-rheumatic and calmed. In the seeds is sweet, spicy but neutral. Many seeds are used for medicine CANCER Rahim, hernia, rheumatism, tuberculosis etc. But when you cultivate Jatropha seeds into your herbs should be - careful because if excessive taking his medication will cause poisoning with traits - traits headache, vomiting and diarrhea, heat etc.

Actually medicinal plants are very many kinds. From various regions across the country have their recipes - each in the process of herbal plants. When we return to the natural cure all kinds of diseases can be prevented and treated, since the risk is very small. For that perbanyaklah drink herbal drinks such as herbal medicine, etc. so that a healthier body.


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