Japanese Blood Grass and Imperata Cylindrica Benefits
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.
