Benefits Leaves Sembung

Blumea (Blumea balsamifera (L.) DC.)
Synonym: Baccharis salvia, Lour. = Conyza balsamifera, Linn. = Pluchea balsamifera, (Linn.) Less.

Familia: Compositae (Asteraccae)

Description

Growing up in the open until the place is protected by the river, farm, garden, can grow on sandy soil or a slightly damp soil at an altitude of up to 2200 m above sea level. Shrubs, grow upright, to four m tall, smooth-haired, the leaves at the bottom of stemmed, at the top of the leaves sit, grow turns, round leaf form egg to oval, the base and leaf tip pointed, serrated or scalloped edge, length 8 cm - 40 cm, width four cm - twenty cm, there's 2-3 additional leaf on the stalk leaves. Upper leaf surface a tiny rough-haired, the bottom of haired tight and smooth as velvet. Interest groups in the type of malai, exit at the finish of the branch, the color yellow. Longkah fruit slightly bowed, its length is one mm.

Local Name

Blumea, Blumea utan (Sunda); Sembung, Blumea legi; Blumea hanging, Blumea sugar, Blumea kuwuk,; Blumea mingsa, Blumea disagreeable, Blumea slow (Java); Kamandhin (Madura); Sembung (Bali), Sembung, capa; capo (Sumatra), Afoat (East), Ampampau, capo, Madikapu; Ai na xiang (China).;


Composition

Nature Chemical and pharmacological effects: Taste spicy and slightly bitter, slightly warm, aromatic. Anti-rheumatism, circulation, remove blood clots and swelling.


Curable Disease

Chemical Ingredients: borneol, cineole, limonene, in-methyl ether phloroacetophenon

Utilization

Rheumatism, menstrual pain, influenza, Bloating, diarrhea, bone pain;

The Used Parts

Leaves, roots, fresh or dried. Borneol Extract obtained from fresh leaves.

Usefulness:

  * Rheumatic joints.
  * The bones pain after childbirth, menstrual pain.
  * Influenza, bloating, diarrhea.

Injuries hit, boils, sores, itching skin. Fresh leaves are crushed for outside use or boiled for washing.


Outside Use

one. Diarrhea:

Example of Use for Treatment:

four. Irregular menstruation, no appetite:

one handful of leaves of Blumea boil with four cups water to one One / four cup. Drink with honey if necessary, a day four x one / four cup.

four / four handheld sembung washed Ialu boiled in four cups water to 3/4-nya. Drink with honey, a day four x four / four cup.

four. Chest pain due to narrowing of the coronary arteries (angina pectolis)

four. Menstrual pain
four pieces of leaves of Blumea + Kedaung some baked beans and mashed, boiled with four cups water to rest 1/2-nya, after a chilled drink.

one / four handheld sembung Ialu washed with four cups boiling water in to 3/4-nya. After chilling filtered Ialu taken with honey as necessary. Perform a day four x four / four cup.