The Benefit Of Nut Of Palm For Our Health

Nut is a type of palm that grows in the Pacific, Asia and eastern Africa. Penang is also the name of the fruit are traded. Various regional names include pineung (Aceh), pining (Toba Batak), arrest (Md.), jambe (Sd., Jw.), Bua, ua, WUA, pua, Fua, hua (various languages ​​in Nusa Tenggara and Maluku) and various other designations. In English known as Betel palm or Betel nut tree, and its scientific name is Areca catechu.

Slim straight trunked tree nut, can reach a height of 25 m with a diameter of circa 15 cm, although some are larger. Canopy is not dense.
Midrib leaf-shaped tube with a length of 80 cm, petiole short; leaf blade length up to 80 cm, the child leaves 85 x 5 cm, with torn and jagged edge. In Java, areca nut grows to a height of 1,400 m above sea level.

Pinang mainly grown for its seeds used, which in the Western world known as betel nut. This seed mixture is known as one of the betel nut, gambier and lime addition.

Betel nut contains alkaloids such as arekaina (arecaine) and arekolina (arecoline), which is slightly more toxic and addictive, can stimulate the brain. Betel nut crude drug preparations in the pharmacy used to treat intestinal worms, especially tapeworms to overcome. Meanwhile, some kind of nut seeds cause dizziness when chewed. Other substances contained in this fruit, among others arecaidine, arecolidine, guracine (guacine), guvacoline and several other elements. Traditionally, areca nuts are used in potions to treat dysentery, bloody diarrhea, and scurvy. The seed is also used as a red dye producer and materials tanner.

Roots of areca nut type Itam, in the past used as a poisoner to get rid of enemies or those who are not favored. The leaf midrib like tubes (known as upih) is used as a wrapper pastries and food. Top and innermost fronds are eaten as vegetables or pickles contrived.

Some properties of betel nuts is as follows:

• Treat ear pus. Way, take the roots of young betel nuts to taste, finely crushed, squeezed the water. Clean the ears first sick child with cotton, after that used as drops with betel juice on the sore ear as much as 3 drops. Ear plugs with cotton so that water droplets do not flow out. Perform routine daily until healed.
• Treating eczema. Way, take the contents of areca nut 1 grain, seed grain Jangkang 5, then mash them finely. Add olive oil / coconut oil and whiting, then rub / urapkan on the skin of eczema. Balut with hooks. Do it twice a day regularly.

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The Benefit Of Galangal For Our Health

Galangal or laos (Alpinia galanga) is a type of plant tubers that can live in the highlands and the lowlands. Generally people use it as a mixture of spices and traditional medicine. Utilization for cooking with ginger rhizome mememarkan way then just dipped into a mix of cuisine, while for traditional medicine that is widely used is red Alpinia galanga purpurata K Schum.

Galangal contains essential oils include: galangol, galangin, alpinen camphor, methyl-cinnamate. These herbs berkasiat as an anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, warms, cleanses the blood, adding nafsumakan, facilitate spending winds of the body, thin phlegm, scent and stimulate muscles.

One of the famous is processed laos Laos Jamu Kudu, which is efficacious as a refresher (tonic), health care, and maintaining stamina man. To make it, here are the steps:

1. Prepare ginger, noni, garlic, pepper, Kedaung, tamarind, palm sugar and sugar to taste, and salt to taste.
2. Noni puree and ginger together.
3. Fried garlic roaster or couples, pepper, and beans Kedaung.
4. Combine ginger, noni, garlic, pepper, and beans Kedaung become one with tamarind. Add sugar and salt, then squeeze and strain.
5. Drinking water. Note, do not keep this herb Loas Kudu more than 24 hours because it will change and usefulness is lost.

Several other properties of ginger are as follows:

• Treat stomach aches. Way, take half the grated ginger rhizome fingers and squeeze the water. Add a little salt and 1 cup of boiled water, then drink to strengthen the digestive tract as much as 1 cup per day.
• Treating ringworm. Way, take galangal rhizome, then mash together the garlic finely. Add lemon juice / vinegar, stir well, then rub on the affected skin ringworm.
• Treat tinea versicolor. Way, take ginger rhizome, then mash finely. Add salt, stir well, then rub on the affected skin tinea versicolor. After that, soak for a while in the sun.

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The Benefit Of Pepper

Pepper or pepper (Piper nigrum L.) is a form of whole spices produced by the plant with the same name. Pepper is very important in components of world cuisine and is widely known as an important trade commodity in the Old World. In the past the price is so high that it became one of the triggers of the Europeans to the exploration of East Asia for control of trade and, thus, began the history of the colonization of Africa, Asia, and America.

In Indonesia, the pepper is mainly produced on the island of Bangka. Pepper called sahang Local Malay as the language of Banjar, Malay Belitung, Sambas Malays, and others.

Some kinds of pepper benefits include:

• Treating impotence. Read prescribing herbs for impotence.
• Treat arthritis. Read prescribing herbs for arthritis.
• Treat malaria. Way, take 1/2 teaspoon pepper and coffee, and brewed with hot water. Drink this mixture before recurrence. In addition, prepare additional herbs also using papaya leaves (take the stem), one piece ireng, 1/4 handheld leaf Tarum, 2 soybean seed rot, and salt. Blend all the ingredients and add 3/4 cup water. Squeeze, strain, and drink 2 times a day.

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The Benefit Of Ginger [Lempuyang / Indonesia] For Our Health

Ginger (Zingiber zerumbet (L.) Sm ex Roscoe., Sin. Z. aromaticum Valeton) is a kind of spice medicinal. Rhizome used as a drug mixture. Lempuyang or puyang is one of the main ingredients are quite popular herbs, herbal puyang chili.

Ginger is known to induce apoptosis of cancer cells. Results of the study in Japan found that ginger rhizome extract can suppress the growth of melanoma cells in mice experiments. Suppressive effect (inhibitor) is known to occur through inhibition of tyrosinase gene expression in melanoma cells.

Here are some of the properties of ginger:

• Treat tuberculosis. The trick, grab a handful of fragrant ginger root, wash, then cut into pieces. Boil 5 cups of water until the remaining half. Drink 2 times a day as much as 3/4 cup to add to the blood.
• Treat malaria. The trick, take 1 finger lempunyag, puree. Add 1 cup pineapple juice and salt to taste. Drink 2 times a day as much as 1/2 cup to increase endurance.
• Increase appetite. The trick, ambi fragrant ginger 1 fingers, wash thoroughly, then grate. Add 1 cup of boiled water and a little salt, squeeze and strain. Drink enough water 2 times a day.

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Benefit Of Turmeric For Our Health

Turmeric or turmeric (Curcuma longa Linn. Syn. Curcuma domestica Val.), Is including one of the original spices and medicinal plants of Southeast Asia. The plant then had spread to the region Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and even Africa. Almost everyone Indonesia and India and Asian nations generally have to consume this herb plants, either as a complementary seasoning, herbs or to maintain health and beauty.

Turmeric classified in the ginger group, Zingiberaceae. Turmeric is known in various regions with few local names, such as Turmeric (UK), turmeric (Netherlands), Turmeric (Indonesia and Malaysia), turmeric (Java), Koneng (Sunda), Konyet (Madura).

Turmeric is a spice commonly used in cooking in Asian countries. Turmeric is often used as a spice in cooking a type of curry, and is also used to give a yellow color to dishes, or as a preservative. Pharmaceutical products made from turmeric, is able to compete with a variety of drug patents, for example, for inflammation of the joints (rheumatoid arthritis) or osteo-arthritis deklofenak active ingredient sodium, piroxicam, and phenyl butason the high price of food or supplements (Vitamin-plus) in capsule form.

Product ingredients so of turmeric extracts in the form of dietary supplements in capsule form (Vitamin-plus) market and the industry is growing. Dietary supplement made from the raw material of turmeric extract with additional material Vitamin B1, B2, B6, B12, Vitamin E, Lecithin, Amprotab, Mg-stearate, Nepagin and Kolidon 90.

The use of turmeric instant, should not be performed for treatment (especially for pregnant women), because there are others that the contents may be harmful to the content of the drug, especially preservatives and dyes.

The main content of turmeric is curcumin and essential oils that function for the treatment of hepatitis, antioxidants, digestive disorders, anti-microbial, anti-cholesterol, anti-HIV, anti-tumor (induced apostosis), inhibits growth of breast tumor cells, inhibits tumor cell proliferation in the colon, anti invasion, anti-rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatism). diabetes mellitus, Typhoid, appendix, dysentery, hospital discharge; Menstruation is not smooth, stomach heartburn during menstruation, breastfeeding Streamlining; tonsils, mucous stools, Morbili, Cangkrang (Waterproken).

Turmeric contains medicinal compounds, called curcuminoids consisting of curcumin, desmetoksikumin bisdesmetoksikurkumin as much as 10% and as much as 1-5% and other beneficial substances such as essential oils consisting of sesquiterpene ketones, turmeron, tumeon 60%, 25% zingiberen , felandren, sabinen, borneol and sineil. Turmeric also contain as much as 1 -3% fat, 3% carbs, 30% Protein, Starch 8%, Vitamin C 45-55%, and mineral salts, namely iron, phosphorus, and calcium.

Some properties of turmeric or saffron are as follows:

• Treating German measles. Way, take 2 fingers and 2 finger turmeric kawak acid, then puree with a given water and salt. Use to lubricate the affected skin patches German measles 2 times a day to taste.
• Treat dengue. How, to prepare one index finger turmeric, ireng, 1 papaya leaves (and stems), and salt. Mix all ingredients together, add 1/2 cup water, then mash until smooth. Juicing and drinking water 1 time a day for 1 week.
• Treat shortness of breath. Way, take turmeric and ginger to taste, add boiled water, then shredded. Squeeze and strain the water. Add tamarind, sugar cubes, 1 tablespoon honey, and 1 egg. Stir well, then drink 2 times a day.
• Eliminate dandruff. Way, take turmeric to taste, then mash and squeeze the juice. Rub or pijatkan on the scalp and hair, leave overnight, then wash in the morning with shampoo.
• Eliminate cramps (cikalen). Way, take 3 vertebra turmeric and ginger 3 sections. Grate then strain and take the water. Add eggs 1 seeds, 3 tablespoons honey, milk also taste if desired. Drinking potions.
• Relieves itching due to bristle worms (caterpillars). The trick, take the saffron, then grated and mixed with a little lime water sediment so water red turmeric. Apply to affected skin fur caterpillar until blended.

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The Benefit Of Ginger For Health

Ginger (Zingiber officinale), is a rhizome plant very popular as a spice and medicinal materials. Rhizome fingers shaped bulge in the middle sections. Dominant spicy flavor due to compounds called ketones zingeron.

Including tribal Zingiberaceae ginger (Intersection-finding). The scientific name given by William Roxburgh ginger from the Greek word zingiberi, from Sanskrit, singaberi.

Ginger is thought to have originated from India. But there is also a trust ginger comes from South China. Of India, taken as ginger spice trade to Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and the Middle East. Then in the days of colonialism, ginger can provide a warm and spicy flavor on the food soon became a popular commodity in Europe.

Because ginger can only survive in the tropics, planting can be done only in equatorial regions are like Southeast Asia, Brazil, and Africa. Currently Equador and Brazil became the world's largest supplier of ginger.

Stem ginger is a pseudo stem with 30 to 100 cm high. Rhizomes with roots shaped root flesh is yellow to reddish with a pungent odor. Pinnate leaves with a length of 15 to 23 mm and a length of 8 to 15 mm. Petiole pubescent.

Ginger flower growing out of the ground oval with a length of 3.5 to 5 cm and a width of 1.5 to 1.75 cm. Scaly peduncle much as 5 to 7 pieces. Yellowish green flowers. Lips flowers and purple anthers. Pistil stalk numbered two.

Some properties of ginger are as follows:

Treat fever and cough and cold. Way, take half a finger of ginger, then finely crushed and boiled with 2 cups of boiling water for about a half hour. Drink one glass of water as much as 2-3 times a day.
Treat gout. The trick, finely minced ginger 2 fingers and 5 spring onions, then mix together one cup of flour and water. Use to rub the sore twice a day to taste.
Treating stiff. Way, take an inch of ginger, then wash and finely milled. Stick it on the part that feels stiff, then wrapped and covered. Do it before bed.

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The Benefit Of Powder / Kencur For Our Health

Powder (Kaempferia galanga L.) is one type of empon-empon/tanaman drug belonging to the tribe-finding meeting (Zingiberaceae). Rhizomes or rhizome of this plant contain essential oils and alkaloids are used as stimulants. Another name is cekur (Malaysia) and pro hom (Thailand). In the international literature (English) often occurs chaos by calling kencur as lesser galangal (Alpinia officinarum) and zedoary (Intersection of white), which is actually a distinct species and not a substitute spices. There is also a close relative kencur commonly grown in home gardens as a medicinal plant, meeting Rapet (K. rotunda Jacq.), But is easily distinguished from its leaves.

Kencur name borrowed from Sanskrit, kachora, कचोर, which means white Intersection (Curcuma zedoaria).

Some kinds of properties of kencur are as follows:

• Treat gastroenteritis. Way, take kencur by 2 fingers, peel and wash clean. Chew with salt then swallow. Do it 3 times a day.
• Treating abdominal pain, nausea and flatulence. The trick, then take one finger kencur scar. Add 1/2 cup water, knead, and strain the water. Drink filtered water once a day as much as 1/2 cup.
• Refresh the body.

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