Top Most 6 Types of Herbal Medicines And Benefits

Although the technology is currently more advanced and the development of the type of drugs getting better, the fact that drugs derived from natural ingredients or commonly referred to as herbal medicine is increasingly used to treat various diseases and become one of the most popular alternative healing.
Many use herbal remedies on the grounds that herbal remedies are safer compared to chemical drugs, and the country best known for curing alternatives using herbal remedies is China.As we all know that herbal remedies have helped cure many people with different diseases, although some of these drugs have no therapeutic claims, herbal remedies are still the top choice as the safest and most effective drug to use. However, we should consult their physician first before deciding to take any of these herbal products.Types of herbal medicines and properties:

1. Temulawak 
Curcuma xanthorhiza roxb (Curcuma xanthorhiza roxb) included in the family of Ginger (zingiberaceae), this temulawak as a medicinal plant native to Indonesia. However, the spread of temulawak plants grows on the island of Java, Maluku and Kalimantan. Characteristics of temulawak grows as a shrub without a stem, starting from the base is a long leaf stalk stand upright. Plant height between 2 m s / d 2,5 m, the leaves are long round like banana leaf which the stem of the leaf mutually close to form stem.This plant can flourish in the lowlands with an altitude of 750 m above sea level, this plant can be harvested after 8-12 months with characteristics of yellowing leaves like going to die. Umbinya will grow at the base of the stem is dark yellow or light brown with a diameter of 15 cm and 6 cm long, smells slightly bitter and slightly spicy. Temulawak has long been used for generations by our ancestors to treat jaundice, diarrhea, ulcer, stomach bloating and stiffness. Finally it can also be used to lower blood fats, prevent blood clots as antioxidants and maintain health by increasing the immune system.

2. Turmeric
 Turmeric is a medicinal plant of bushes and is perennial (perenial) scattered throughout the tropics, turmeric plants thrives and wild around the forest or former garden. It is estimated to come from Binar at an altitude of 1300-1600 m above sea level, others say that turmeric comes from India. In the Java region, turmeric is widely used as herb medicine because it is soothing, cleansing, drying, itching and tingling. The main benefits of turmeric, namely as a traditional medicine ingredients, herbal medicine and cosmetics raw materials, cooking spices, animal husbandry and others. Besides, the turmeric rhizome is also useful as an anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidants, anti-microbial, cancer prevention, anti-tumor, and lower blood fat and cholesterol levels, and as a blood purifier.

3. Keji glass 
Keji glass or Java people call it by name sambang geteh, while in land pasundan known as meat remek, reundeu beureum, and the ternate call it by the name of lire. This plant has many minerals such as potassium, calcium, and sodium and other mineral elements. Besides, there are also silicic acid, tannins, and glycosides. Usefulness as a drug dysentery, diarrhea (diarrhea) and kidney stone drugs and can also be lowering cholesterol. The leaves of this plant other than boiled for drinking water, can also be eaten as fresh vegetables every day and done regularly. Criminous leaf is also often used to overcome the body that itchy caterpillars or black ants, how to apply direct vermicelli leaves on the itch. To overcome diarrhea, dysentery, all parts of this plant is boiled, for about half an hour, then drink water. The same process for treating kidney stones. Leaves are also able to cope with diabetes melau sweet eaten as regularly every day. Similarly, to treat the disease liver (jaundice), ambient (hemorrhoids) and ulcers in a way eaten regularly.Read Also: Overcome Uric Acid with Mangosteen Skin and Soursop Leaf

4. Sambiloto 
Sambiloto (Andrographis paniculata), is a herbaceous plant of the Acanthaceae family, originally from India and Sri Lanka. Sambiloto can also be found in other areas, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, as well as some places in the Americas. The genus Andrographis has 28 species of herbs, but only a few are medical, one of them is Andrographis paniculata (sambiloto). Sambiloto leaves contain many compounds Andrographolide, which is a lyctone compound lactone bispic acid.This bitter-tasting chemical compound was first isolated by Gorter in 1911, andrographolide has the character of protecting the liver (hepatoprotective), and is shown to protect the liver from the negative effects of galactosamine and paracetamol. This property is closely related to the activity of certain metabolic enzymes, sambiloto has long been known to have medical properties. Ayurveda is one of the ancient Indian medicinal systems that lists sambiloto as a medical herb, where sambiloto is called by the name Kalmegh on Ayurveda. In addition nutritious to protect the liver, sambiloto can also suppress the growth of cancer cells. This is because the active compound, Andrographolide, decreases the expression of the CDK4 enzyme (cyclin dependent kinase 4).TempuyungTempuyung (Sonchus arvensis L) includes a chilly terna plant that usually grows in shaded places, the leaves are slippery green with a little purple, the edges are choppy, and the teeth are irregular. Near the base of the stem, the toothed leaves are shaken to form a rosette and which are located on the top of a crisscross hilt.Choppy leaves hugging the stem is a nutritious crushing kidney stones, inside the leaf contained enough high levels of potassium. The presence of potassium from the leaves of tempuyung is what makes kidney stone in the form of calcium carbonate disintegrated, because potassium will get rid of calcium to join carbonate compound, oxalate, or vein which is the builder of kidney stones.Deposition of kidney stones that finally dissolved and drift out with urine, to use it as a medication required five leaves of fresh tempuyung leaves. After being washed, the leaves are smoked for a while. The leaves are eaten once consumed as a salad with rice, in a day we can eat it three times.

6. Beluntas 
Beluntas is an upright, woody, branched shrub, with a height of up to two meters. Single leaf, round shape of egg, pointed tip, fluffy, young leaves yellowish green and after old pale green and leaf length 3,8-6,4 cm. Growing wild in the soil with high humidity, in some places in West Java this plant is used as a hedge plant and barrier between the bunds in the plantation.Some regions in Indonesia call beluntas names with different names such as baluntas (Madura), Luntas (Central Java), and Lamutasa (Makassar). Traditionally the leaves of beluntas are used as a remedy for body odor, heat-dropping drugs, cough medicines, and diarrheal medications. Beluntas leaf that has been boiled very well to treat skin diseases, besides beluntas leaves are also often consumed by the community as fresh vegetables. The existence of information traditionally from the society that has long used leaves beluntas as one of the medicinal plants encourage researchers to conduct various research in order to prove its usefulness scientifically.

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