Peacock – the Herbal Plant for Stomach Ache
Not only beautiful in its look, entire part of peacock flower can be used to heal pain during menstruation, bruise, cramp, and red-eye.
The bark can be used to heal diarrhea, cramp in children, etc.
The root to sooth cold and temper in children, and the leaves to overcome stomach ache, cold, and dermal disease. While the fruit is able to heal diarrhea.
Here are the detail:
Cramp in children :
5 peacock flower, 20 gr peacock leave, 5cm root, and 5 cm bark which has been washed and milled. Add salt and water, and apply on neck back and the children’s feet.
puffy stomach
15 gr fresh peacock flower, mixed with garlic and milled thoroughly. Pour a little water on it, and apply it on stomach
Bruise
milled some peacock flower, and apply on the bruise
Cold and sooth temperate
3-5 gr peacock flower, braise in 200 cc water. keep boiling until the water left 150 cc. Filter and drink the water.
Diarrhea
15 bark, milled and braise with 400 cc water. Keep boiling until 200 cc water left. Filter it and drink the water while it’s still warm.
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Shame Plant for Asthma and Insomnia
Shame Plant (Mimosa pudica Duchass.) is a very typical plant. We can see it anywhere around us, especially if you live in tropics.
When being touched, Shame Plant will fold the leaves side one into another, shaping like sleeping grass.
The alkaloid, amino acid and saponin in Shame Plant can release or widen the respiratory canal and handling insomnia.
Insomnia :
One piece of shame plant, dried. milled then braise with hot water.
Add black or sweet dill ( 5-7 pcs).
Drink while stil warm
Asthma :
10 grams of dried shame plants herbs, braise with 100 ml water, boiled for 15 minutes. Drink 3 times a day 1-2 tablespoon.
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Luntas (Indian camphorweed) for Traditional Medication
This plant is called Luntas or sometimes Beluntas in Indonesian. Beluntas (Pluchea indica (L.) Less.) has a typical scent, with the plant height can reach up to 2m.
Beluntas (Pluchea indica L or worldwide known as Indian camphorweed grows in dry area and needs a lot of direct sunshine. In villages and in old days, this Indian camphorweed is used as fence. It has a short leaf in light green color. The flower is small in purple color.
Beluntas contains alkaloid and atsiri oil, and widely used as jamoo (Javanese term to call a certain kind of traditional medication).
The advantages of beluntas are :
• eliminating body odor ( consumed directly)
• healing intestine disturbance in children and increasing appetite (10-15 grams leaves mixed in rice/porridge
• soothing body temperate (braise beluntas leaves, filter and drink)
• scabies
• cervical tuberculous lymphadenitisrhemumatic pain and waist pain (5 gr of beluntas root, boiled and drink)
