Types of Medicinal Plants and Its Benefits ( Kitchen Apothecary )
Types of Medicinal Plants and Its Benefits
What are medicinal plants that have properties to cure various diseases? Yes .. one of them is turmeric plant. In Latin, this plant is also known as Curcuma Longa. Turmeric is a friendly plant and easy to adapt to the environment. Shaped branches slightly round and short, if broken will look orange meat. Can be a natural dye, has a distinctive aroma and has a bitter taste. Curcuma domestika has a pseudo stem, oval like elongated egg and light green.
Efficacy of turmeric is of course no doubt because in addition can be used as a kitchen cooking ingredients can also be used as a traditional medicine. One advantage of turmeric is the process of natural skin care. Once upon a time, to color the food even to color the human skin using turmeric as the main ingredient because the color is striking and always attached to the touch.
Do not underestimate this one plant because almost all types of diseases can be cured with this plant and if there is a weakness in this plant is just the color and taste of the bitter but it can be overcome by the use of sugar or honey when consumed.
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Here are some of the benefits of medicinal plants turmeric:
1. As a fever remedy.
Anticipate fever in children, as a first aid for fever not to increase.
2. Dyspepsia or abdominal bloating, pain, nausea and lack of appetite.
If your child has a lack of appetite or problems with digestion then try to use this natural herb regularly and see the results.
3. Nasal congestion due to influenza.
4. Eczema.
How to rub through the body regularly
5. Diarrhea.
Diarrhea lenders and bleeding. Consumed by making it a turmeric drink
6. Whitish.
This is one of the problems in women who sometimes membaut couples are not so happy when intercourse then try to use this natural remedy to treat it by being made into a turmeric drink.
7. Inflammation of the uterus
Made into a turmeric drink and consumed regularly
8. Inflammation of the appendix.
9. Pain Yellow
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10. Eliminate body odor
11. Chicken pox
12. Gingivitis
13. Tonsillitis
14. High blood pressure
15. Skin wounds
Usually treated with turmeric powder then applied to the wound, such as scratches, iris, and others.
16. Shortness of breath
17. Increase Stamina
18. Malaria
Appetite Increase
20. Sick Magg
21. Diabetes
20. Sick Magg
21. Diabetes
22. Dandruff
For dandruff, can be done by pounding turmeric and grab the turmeric juice and rub on the scalp, let, if necessary a day and then after the night wash with shampoo, do routinely until the dandruff is gone.
23. Launch mother's milk
Do it by eating raw young turmeric.
24. Smoothes the skin
Do it that way, one turmeric rhizome, one tablespoon of black sticky rice and a piece of cinnamon, wash until clean turmeric and grated. Black rice is fried without oil and then finely crushed. So also for cinnamon. Mix all ingredients that have been processed and then aggregate the face like using a face mask.
25. Diarrhea
Do it with grated turmeric, then take the juice of turmeric as much as one teaspoon and mixed with a little whiting.
How to make this turmeric rhizome itself is very easy and can be done at home alone, some way is done in accordance with the type of disease to be treated is as follows:
- For internal medicine can be used as beverage turmeric by boiling. We recommend that if you want a practical way, cut the turmeric thin and then dried turmeric and boiled. The next way can use a blender to extract turmeric juice. Can also be shredded for use as an external medicine. There are many other ways you can do according to the type of illness you want to heal.
Ok buddy .. that's a brief explanation of the benefits and efficacy of traditional medicine turmeric and may be useful for you all. Thank you for your time.