By Yanti

Tinospora Crispa

Tinospora crispa or tinospora rumphii, Linn and brotowali menispermum crispum is plant which grows wild in the woods, fields, home page which includes family menispermacea. Tinospora crispa is widely used in Asia such as India, Indonesia, Philippine, Thailand, China, and so on as one of the medicinal plants to treat various types of diseases.

Tinospora crispa also has many different names such as shen jin teng (China), antawali, andawali, bratawali, putrawali, daun gade (Indonesia), boraphet, kab hoi yai wan (Thailand), kattukkodi (Tamil), makabühai (Tagalog), dagadi (Malayalam), vasanvel (Kannada), faridbel (Marathi), and others.

Brotowali is shrubs that like the hot or warm spot, and can grow to climb to 2, 5m. Tinospora crispa has a trunk of her little finger with a pimple, and tastes bitter if eaten, while the leaf is a single leaf brotowali have stalks, and roundish or like a heart with a width of about 5 to 10 cm, and a length of about 7 to 12 cm.

Tinospora crispa chemical compounds

In the tinospora crispa contain various antioxidant compounds, anti-allergy, and anti viral good for human health, and because it is not surprising that this plant has long been used as medicinal herbs, and compounds of Tinospora crispa include flavonoids, alkaloids, glucoside, picroretine, berberine, amorphous, resinous, soft resin, and palmatin.

Tinospora crispa benefits

Leaves, stems, and roots of tinospora crispa that could be used for the treatment of various types of diseases such as diabetes, fever, eye pain, cholera, rheumatism, snake bites, wounds of the sick with syphilis, internal inflammation, relieve thirst, increased appetite, diabetes, bruises, and so forth. And below are some ways to use tinospora crispa plant for several diseases, namely:

- Fever

How to take 2 fingers tinospora crispa stems and later cleaned, cut and boiled with 2 cups water to 1 cup of water. Then cooled and filtered water and divided for the usage of 2 drinks a day to use honey to taste.

- Rheumatic

Take a finger rod brotowali then washed, cut, and boiled in 3 cups of water down to 1.5 cups of water / water and then cooled, filtered, and divided into 3 sections to be taken 3 times a day with honey.

- Diabetes

Take 1/3 hand-held of  orthosiphon aristatus leaves, 1/3 hand-held bitter leaf, stem and ¾ finger of brotowali then cleaned,  and then cut into pieces. After that all ingredients are mixed and boiled into 3 cups of water to 2 cups of water. The water is then cooled, filtered, and divided into two sections to be taken 2 times daily after meals.

- Injured

Take some tinospora crispa leaves then ground until smooth, and then placed on the injured place, do this 2 times a day until cured, whereas for boiled water to clean the wound using the stem of tinospora crispa.

- Scabies

You do this by taking three fingers of tinospora crispa stems, mixed with sulfur for hazelnuts that have been washed until finely ground. Then the mixture is mixed with coconut oil and then placed on the body are exposed to scabies. Do it 2 times a day.

If you like to do healthy life style by using the nature medicine to treat one of the diseases that you have as above, so you can try to use tinospora crispa as medicine for your disease.

By Yanti

Japanese Blood Grass

Japanese blood grass or imperata cylindrica red baron is a plant originating from Asia and the growing in tropical and sub tropical area, humid and has now spread to a warmer climate in many countries around the world. Japanese blood grassis included in the family poaceae and the genus Imperata, this plant is s widely used as an ornamental plant because it looks beautiful with red elongated leaves.

Japanese blood grass growth is not as fast as other imperata cylindrical plant and has several different names such as imperata cylindrical rubra, and the red baron. While imperata cylindrical having a different surname as well as cogon (Spanish}, kugon (Tagalog}, blady grass (Australia), cogon grass, kunai grass, sword grass, Japanese bloodgrass (USA), speargrass (Nigeria), silver spike ( South Africa), halalang (Banjarese), bai mao (Chinese), blutgras (German), paillote, paille de dys, Imperata cylindrique (French), chigaya (Japanese), and alang-alang (Indonesia).

Japanese blood grass leaves and imperata cylindrical type generally can grow up to 1.5 m, without stem with a width of about 4 to 10 mm. This particular type of plant Imperata cylindrical green are often considered weeds that need to be discarded because of its rapid growth with extensive rhizome system owned plants, the genetic plasticity, the level of tolerance to drought, fire adaptability to make this plant an invasive grass is tough, and capable replace the existing native plants in the area.

Imperata cylindrica have grown in various types of habitat, such as grasslands, young plantations, degraded forest and fertile soil, sand dunes, and so forth. Imperata clyndrica including Japanese bloodgrass is a plant that is flammable, but it has the ability for rapid recovery after a fire because the rhizomes of this plant is very resistant to heat, damage and penetrate the soil to 1.2 m.
Imperata cylindrica chemical compounds.

Based on the results of the study there are several chemical compounds in imperata clycdrica such as sakharosa, glucose, mannitol, citric acid, malic acid, arundoin acid, grit, anemonin, coixol, cylindrin, resins, fernenol, alkali metals, taninin, saponin, and simiarenol.

Imperata cylindrica benefits

There are many benefits to be gained from Imperata cylindrical other than as an ornamental plant for the Japanese bood grass, also has other benefits in human life, and several imperata cylindrical benefits are as follows:

- Imperata cylindrical leaves have been used as fodder and in Papua New Guinea traditional home has been used as roof.

- Imperata cylindrical leaves can also be used as material for making paper, and can even be used as material for making small tools such as make souvernir wedding, pencils place, bags, mats, and so forth.

- Other benefits that are widely used as traditional medicine such as in Chinese, and Indonesia, and others, it is also a drug for treating various diseases by using the imperta cylindrical root  to  stop bleeding, bleeding at the nose, diueretic, reduce tempertur, eliminate hunger, to treat hepatitis , gonorrhea, kidnes disease, etc., and how its use include

- Vomiting of blood
By taking about 50 grams of fresh root imperta cylindrical and wash, then cut, and inserted into the pan that has been filled with 3 cups water, boil the water until 1 cup water, and then move the alang-alang water to the glass until cold, and ready  to drink.

- High blood pressure
Same way as a treatment for vomiting blood on above

- Gonorrhea
Take 300 grams of fresh root imperta cylindrical and wash thoroughly. Then cut small roots and put into pan that has been filled with 2 liters of water, and boil root imperta cylindrical  water until 1 liter of water, and then add small rock sugar, and then moved and cooled water, then alang-alang water is divided for use three times in a day

- Bloody urine
Same way as treatment for gonorrhea treatment

- Inflammation of the Kidneys:
Take 100 grams of the root and then washed and cut into pieces. The next step is the roots input into the pan that already contains 3 cups of water, and boil to1 cup water, then moved, and  cooled the imperta cylindrical water, and divided for use three times a day

- Hepatitis:
You do this by taking about 60 grams of dried roots of the weeds and then washed and cut into pieces, and then input into the pan that has contained as many as 3 cups of water, and boil until remaining 1 glass of water, and then cooled and filtered water and divided for the use of 2 drinks in the morning and afternoon. And do this until 10 days, and see the results, and if it did not recover, do again by the same process.

- Nosebleed.
Do by taking 30 grams of fresh roots then washed and stacked until smooth, and then the water is squeezed to collect 100 cc of water to drink, another way by taking 30 grams of fresh root imperta cylindra then washed and cut into pieces. Then the roots of the weeds that have been cut add into pan that have contained 3 cups of water, and boil until the water remaining in 1 cup, and then moved and cooled water, and the water is ready to drink.

If you have a imperata cylindrica plant including Japanese blood grass at yard of your house, and you suffer one of the diseases above that it do not heal despite continued treatment, so if you want to try natural treatments, then you can take advantage of the roots of Imperata cylindrica to treat your illness , who knows traditional treatment is suitable to the condition of your body and eliminate the disease that you have.

By Yanti

Pithecellobium Bubalinum

Pithecellobium bubalinum is one species of tropical plants from the Fabaceae family and genus Pithecellobium and Pithecellobium bubalinum estimated to come from Southeast Asian such as Indonesia, and Malaysia. Pithecellobium bubalinum has several different names such as Kabau (Indonesia), and kerdas (Malaysia), and some are calling as genuak, jering forest, and squirrels jering

Pithecellobium bubalinum mostly grows wild in the jungle like the Sumatran Island, Indonesia, and peninsular Malaysia. Kerdas tree or trees Kabau is a big tree and shade tree where the  Pithecellobium bubalinum  tree grows high until it reaches approximately 15 m. Kerdas tree leaves are green when old with soft-textured leaves and thin while the young shoots are purple

Kerdas fruit skin is tough and hard, and kerdas shaped like elongated pea-green skin and when opened it contained a few pieces in Kabau arranged neatly in another skin which is black skin and thin for the elderly, but young color is pale yellow or whitish yellow, and the color of kabau seed is green.

Kabau seeds or seeds of Pithecellobium bubalinum is similar as jering and petai plant that has a distinctive aroma or  bad odor, and therefore it make the Pithecellobium bubalinum  to be less popular seed to eat, but for some people who love to eat Kabau, this food can increase appetite. Kabau usually eaten raw as fresh vegetables along with rice, and there is also some people who process Kabau by mixing with other foods such as vegetables Kabau, or chili lime kabau. Because of substances contained in Kabau, then for fans of Kabau advisable not eat too much Kabau seed because it can make urination difficult.

In addition for consuming, Pithecellobium bubalinum also is useful for other function by using the skin of Kabau which is based on research results can be used as pest repellent.

By Yanti

Wheatgrass Juicer

Wheatgrass is a plant that can grow indoors or outdoors derived from wheat. Wheatgrass was introduced by Charles Schnabel in 1930 is an agricultural chemist after experimenting with a young grass is cut and given to the treated chicken and the chicken was dying and turned back to health and even result in higher egg from a healthy chicken  and in following year he did the experiment again and produced the same results in which the chickens ate wheatgrass supplement produces egg production doubled from healthy chickens, and then Schnabel gave information findings to other chemists to notify wheatgrass benefits, and now wheatgrass benefits can be consumed in various forms such as juice, powder, and tablet.

If you want to consume wheatgrass as one of healthy foods you want to consume on a regular basis then you can buy frozen wheatgrass juice, wheatgrass powder or wheatgrass tablet at the health stores or buy online, and if you consume in the form of juice, then you can mix with fruit , vegetables you like, or mixed with a sweetener e.g. stevia and honey to your wheatgrass juice taste better and attractive for consumption.

Wheatgrass Nutrition

Wheatgrass benefits derived from a variety of nutrients contained in wheatgrass, and wheatgrass nutrition include protein, beta-carotene, Vitamin B12, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Calcium, Iron, and Potassium.

Wheatgrass Benefits

From the research results have shown that wheatgrass is a plant that has a high nutrient content and provide some  benefits of wheatgrass for the human body, and some of the benefits of wheatgrass for health body among other.

From the research results have shown that the lymph system in the body look cleaner on the body of people who consume wheat grass regularly compared with the body of the people who do not consume wheatgrass.

The content of a high concentration of chlorophyll in wheatgrass benefits expected to provide for the increasing number of red blood cells, reduce blood pressure be caused dilation of the blood vessels, and improve the delivery of nutrients and  oxygen in the  blood.

Other wheatgrass benefits to the body as detoxification to throw toxins in the human  body such removing toxic metals within the cells, the liver, and kidney thereby increasing immunity against diseases like cancer.

Wheatgrass benefits as well as thyroid regulator, suppresses appetite, alkalize blood,  improve energy levels, reduce allergies, restoration of hair color is gray, and so on.

With a strong detoxifying effect on wheatgrass, so if you want to drink wheatgrass juice in the state of your stomach is empty it is advisable to drink juice wheatgrass slowly so as not to cause discomfort such as nausea in the stomach, and began to consume maximal 4 oz. wheatgrass per day and gradually increase the dose you want in order to get wheatgrass benefits maximally.

By Yanti

Mung Bean (Vigna radiate) is plants from the Fabaceae family and genus Vigna, mung bean plant is a popular and a lot of people eat this in many countries in Asia such as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, and Japan

Mung bean plant or mung beans, golden gram or green gram has many other nicknames such as Mugu different control, or mogu dail (Assamese), Moog dal, or Moong (Bengali and Marathi), green bean (Chinese), pe nauk , pe ti (Burmese), monggo, or munggo (East Timor and Filipino), kacang hijau (Indonesia), mung (Hindi), cheru payaru, or cherupayar (Malayalam), maash (Persian), moongi (Punjabi), choroko ( Swahili), Moong (Urdu), d?u xanh (Vietnamese), pesara (Telugu), pachaippayaru, or paciparuppu (Tamil).

Mung bean plant usually consumed with boiled and then eaten directly after boiling, or used as a green bean porridge. Many people who eat green beans with the material used to fill other snacks like onde-onde, gandasturi, bun, and some are made food with mung bean flour, also called by the name hunk-we flour used to manufacture various types of traditional cakes, ice cream and soun noodles.

Mung bean seeds germinate very easy that used to be called by the name of the bean sprouts. These sprouts are used as vegetables are eaten directly or used as a vegetable or mixed with other food before consumption. Mung bean and mung beans sprout contain various nutrients that are good for body health. Nutrition in mung beans is not diminished even though boiled to pieces so that the efficacy of green beans obtained from the nutrients contained therein are also still able to be maintained and utilized for health humans.

Mung Bean Nutrition

In mung beans plant contained many different kinds of nutrients that are beneficial to increase the body’s health, among others, Energy, Carbohydrates, Sugars, Dietary Fiber, Fat, Protein, Vitamin B complex, C, E, and K, Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Iron, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, and Selenium

Mung Bean Benefits

With the content of various nutrients found in mung bean plant then there are also many health benefits to be gained from this green gram, and some of mung bean benefits as below:

• Content of the Vitamin B1 in the mung bean plant is useful to increase appetite, help the growth process, improving the nerve, and improving the digestive tract, while the content of vitamin B2 are useful to help improve absorption of protein in the body.
• Vitamin C content in mung bean plant is useful as an antioxidant for the body to help ward off free radicals in the body so it is useful for slowing the aging process, minimize cancer, and others disease.
• The content of vitamin E in the beans however useful to help improve fertility, keeping the acidity of the stomach, improving digestion because it is alkaline, help smooth and rejuvenate the skin, cure acne, eliminate black spots on the face, slim body, and nourish the hair.
• Minerals such as phosphorus and potassium are beneficial for strengthening bone, and fat content is unsaturated fatty acids 73% and 27% saturated fatty acids that mung beans are good for heart health and for the people who run a weight loss dietprogram.
• Mung bean plant is believed to be a cure for diseases such as dysentery, or cure stomach pain by making pureed green beans and mixed with 2 eggs in water which is then consumed as much as 2 to 3 times a day.
• Who experience hair loss can also be overcome with mung bean plants by taking a glass of water, and then input a number of green beans into the water and then boiled until the water looks almost cooked green beans, but be sure not to break mung beans during boiling, and then the bean cooking water green is cooled and used to wet the scalp with a head massage, and wait until hair becomes dry, then washing your hair. Do this repeatedly until the hair is not loss anymore.
• Mung bean plant can be used also for decrease fever in infants by boiling the green beans in water and then take 1 cup the boiling water of green beans is mixed with 1 tablespoon of honey and later given to the baby.
• The immature ulcers can be treated with green beans, by mixing 50 g green beans, 50 g small red beans, black beans 50 g were mixed and boiled together, and then boiled ginger 2 segments is also different in the water, and after mature mixed boiling water of bean stew with ginger and drink water regularly. To treat the cooked ulcers by mixing honey in the water of beans and ginger, and then taken on a regular basis to recover the body suffered from ulcers.

There are many benefits of mung bean plant to body health, and therefore if you want to consume some healthy foods on a regular basis, then you can take mung beans as one of the types of foods that are feasible and beneficial for consumption, thus helping your body stay healthy and fresh.