Medicinal plants and Usefulness for Health
                     
Medicinal plants and Usefulness for Health



Medicinal plants and Usefulness for Health

We all know that Indonesia is a country with a tropical climate and fertile soil  make the
country we awarded a variety of plants. As are spice plants that became the hallmark of an
agricultural country. Since time immemorial grandmother we've been using various types of
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As time goes by and the more modernya times, today fewer and fewer people are using
medicinal  plants  to  treat  illness.  They  prefer  to  go  with  modern  medicine  that  we
unknowingly contain chemical substances in them, and some even went to abroad for the
sake of healing. In fact if you consume the drug in the long term can cause other diseases.
Plus the cost of the current treatment is more expensive, therefore medicines from traditional
plant this may be used as an alternative to treating your illness.

1. Starfruit

Don't imagine star fruit has a shape like a carambola in general. Starfruit also known as
carambola vegetable because it is often used as a spice in cooking to give a strong sour
taste.

Another function of starfruit in addition to as a spice in cooking is to traditional medicine.
Ranging from fruits, stems, leaves and rom can be used as medicine. Starfruit useful for
treating bleeding gums, rheumatic drugs, , remedies thrush, remedy rheumatic and can be
used as a toothache remedies.


2. Curcuma

Wild ginger is a plant herb native to Indonesia which has a range of benefits for health. The
part that is often used is part of the root also called rhizome. This is the part that is often
processed to be used as a remedy for various diseases.

The efficacy of the curcuma plant is to cope with kidney disorders, digestion, nourish the
heart, and maintain the health of the liver. Actually there are many types of other diseases
that can be cured with medicinal plants.  Moreover, when its use is combined with other
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3. Daun Cincau

Surely you guys are familiar with this plant isn't it? Yes, the plants are often processed into
ice grass jelly has diverse benefits for the health of the body. The leaves of grass jelly in
general  there  are  2  types,  namely  green  and  black,  both  have  the same taste  equally
delicious and cool.

The benefits of medicinal plants this one is a as drug fever, drug diabetes mellitus, gastric
inflammation, and treat pain types. Wow amazing yes?So this could be one of the medicinal
plants that have a delicious flavor.

4. Leaves broken bones

Plants which have the shape of twigs without leaves is often used as an ornamental plant in
the yard. But behind the uniqueness of the plant broken bone has many benefits for health,
especially traditional medicine.

This plant can be used to treat broken bones, toothache, leprosy, hemorrhoids, tumors or
cancer, rheumatism, syphilis, nerve pain, and also skin diseases. But in its use should ask
health experts because the sap of this plant contains toxins.

5. Celery Leaves

Celery is a green vegetable that is low in calories. The leaves of celery contains about 16
calories per  100 grams.  Celery in  addition to the usual  used as an enhancer  aroma of
dishes, can also be used as a medicinal plant families.
Celery contains vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B1 and iron such as potassium, minerals and
iron.

Some of  the benefits of  celery leaves which can treat  high blood pressure,  prevent  the
formation of stones in the gall bladder, soothes the nervous system, restores appetite lost,
avoid of stomach cancer etc.

6. Sage leaves


Plants Saga many grow wild in the yard, the garden or on the edge of the road. There are
two types of plant saga, that saga of the vines and the tree saga, but most people call both
of them by the name Saga. Saga includes plants weeds, and usually interfere with other
plants that are deliberately planted. Because it is considered disturbing, plants Saga often
cleared and even burnt as well. Even so, the saga leaves vines commonly used as a cough
medicine  and  anti-thrush.  Sage  leaves  contain  several  active  ingredients  such  as
glycyrrhizin,  abrus  lactone,  acid  abrusgenat  How  To  Increase  Female  Libido  Home
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To treat thrush with sage leaves vines, you can pluck the sage leaves to taste and in the rack
in a rather hot a few minutes until wither. After wilting, wash the leaves and then chew-chew
until smooth and use to gargle also.

7. The Leaves Tempuyung

Tempuyung efficacious to cope with the stones of the urinary tract, gallstones, ulcers, burns,
appendicitis,  rheumatism,  inflammation  of  the  breast,  bruises,  dysentery,  high  blood
pressure, hemorrhoids, and beser mani.

8. Aloe vera

Medicinal plants have a variety of benefits next is the aloe vera. Yups, it safe to say that aloe
vera as the plant of a million benefits because of the many benefits of this plant. In addition
to its main function for the health of hair, eliminate pimples, and beauty of this plant can also
be used to to treat variety of diseases.

As a medicinal plant aloe vera is effective for treating coronary heart disease, diabetes, sore
throat, constipation, and many types of other diseases which can be treated with this plant.

9. Plant sugar apple fruit

Plants of sugar apple in general contain anonain and retikulin. The leaves, roots, and the
peel contains WN. The roots of the sugar apple is efficacious as an antidepressant and anti-
inflammatory.

The leaves are efficacious as a laxative intestinal worms, speed up the ripening of ulcers
and anti-inflammatory. Seeds efficacious to kill the insects and stimulate digestive enzymes.
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10. The plant duck bill

Duck bill can be used to treat pain heat, diuretic, cough and headache.

Global warming and environmental pollution, especially air  pollution which is increasingly
haunting lives, should got the answer. One of them is by developing a natural medicines.
This time, with tangible evidence of the many side effects of synthetic drugs up to a price
that  is  not  affordable  to  the  public,  it  becomes  very  important  effort  to  encourage  and
accelerate the development program of natural medicine in Indonesia.


"A variety of relief plastered on Borobudur temple, Prambanan Temple and heritage other
shows,  that  our  ancestors  had  to  develop,  nurture  and  love  the  nature  since  time
immemorial. therefore, the support of government and business in the form of funds, experts
and research facility indispensable in the acceleration program is to be able to improve the
quality of the research and marketing of natural medicines", said Prof. Dr. dr. Nyoman Kertia,
Sp.PD-KR, in room Senate Hall of UGM, Monday (26/8).

Inaugurated  as  professor  of  Faculty  of  Medicine  UGM,  Nyoman  Kertia  gave  a  speech
entitled "the Renaissance the Development of Natural Medicines To Support Tri Hita Karana
In Achieving Hamemayu Hayuning Bawana". In his speech, the Head of the Sub. Section of
Rheumatology, Section of internal medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UGM/ RSUP. Dr. Sardjito,
hope the academics should be aware and participate in developing a natural medicines by
increasing the knowledge, expanding the education of natural medicine and research in this
field.  "Similarly  with the public,  it  should  not  stay  silent  and must  move together  in  the
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Among  three  models  of  therapy,  natural  medicine,  alternative  therapy,  complementary
therapy and conventional therapy, said Nyoman Kertia, a model of complementary therapy
most widely applied in the community. Because in complementary therapy, natural remedies
used to accompany the conventional therapies, because it is able to reduce the dose and
effect of conventional medicine.

While  on  an  alternative  therapy,  natural  medicine  separate  with  conventional  medicine.
Alternative  therapies  this  be  an  option  for  the  patient  and  family  because  conventional
medicine assessed the benefit is small, easy to cause side effects and affordable prices.
This Model is often applied in cancer patients and chronic disease.

"Meanwhile,  as  a  conventional  therapy,  natural  medicine  can  stand  on  its  own.  In
conventional therapy, natural medicine has been through clinical trials and proved no worse
than conventional drugs in terms of benefits and side effects and natural medicines in a
conventional therapy, is already can be classified as phytopharmaca," said Nyoman Kertia.

The Data give evidence of the astounding, more than 120 kinds of conventional drugs are
derived from natural materials. For example, the case of kardivaskular (digoxin) is commonly
used to increase the strength of heart it turns out is derived from the plants Digitalis purpurea
and antropin to speed up the heart rate derived from the plant Atropa belladona. On the
treatment of cancer (Taxol) are commonly used to suppress the proliferation of cancer cells
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On the treatment of attacks of acute gout or uric acid disease acute (colchicine), which until
now  is  still  the  main  choice  in  the  medical  world,  it  turned  out  derived  from  the  plant
Colchicum autumnale. for the treatment of severe pain, morphine is often used apparently
comes from the Poppy plant.