This Wild Plant is an Effective Mandar Traditional Medicine

The Mandar tribe is not only known for its diverse cultures and customs. The tribe who inhabited most of West Sulawesi also had "magic" doctors treating various diseases. Here are three types of wild plants that became the secret of their treatment materials.

Leaf Angguni for Injuries and Internal Diseases
Minor grasses with the Latin name Chromolaena Odorata is one of the plant species of the Compositae family. The edges of the leaves are serrated with fine hairs on the leaf surface. This type of plant can easily grow in the tropics.

In West Sulawesi, especially the Mandar tribe, the grass of minjangan is named after the leaves of angguni or kopasanda. For hundreds of years Mandar community has known this plant as a powerful medicine to cure several types of diseases. One of them cuts the incision in the skin.

The way of treatment is very simple, namely the leaves of young members are first crushed using clean water, then sari juice dripped into the skin of the wounded. Surely the wounded skin was first cleaned with water. The effect is stinging, but the benefits will be immediately felt because the wound will soon dry.

In addition to wounds, grape juice is also believed Mandar Mandiri efficacious cure various internal diseases, by drinking leaf extract. Like diabetes, blood circulation, blood clots, skin infections, ulcers, itching of the skin, eczema, swelling, and anti-inflammatory or inflammatory.

According to some studies, the leaves of grace contains several major compounds such as tannins that are useful as antioxidants, phenols useful for antiseptics, powerful flavonoids expel viruses in the blood, and saponins are useful as an anti-fungal.

Calle-Calle for Skin To Menstrual Pain
Passiflora Foetida is known by Indonesian people named rombusa or emot, in Mandar this wild plant is often called calle-calle. Mandar people are quite familiar with this creeping plant because the fruit is as big as the marbles is sweet and form of passion-like contents.

The Mandar people use their fruit-the ripe ones from green to red-to prevent dehydration. The substances contained in the calle-calle fruit of calcium and antioxidam are very beneficial for health. Calcium is useful for healthy bones, teeth, and gums. Also useful for producing red blood cells so that powerful prevent anemia. While anti-oxidants consisting of vitamin C, flavonoids and potassium to counteract free radicals.

In addition to fruit, calle-calle plant leaves are also believed Mandar tribe to relieve pain on the injured skin. How to use it is to put a calle-calle leaf that has been crushed to the injured skin. Understand it, this plant contains substances that are useful as an anti-oxidant ethanol. So it is believed to treat burns, scabies, and relieve menstrual pain.

Other properties of this plant for the Mandar tribe is to relieve cough due to hot lungs, inflammation of the lymph nodes of the neck, insomnia, abnormal chronic fatigue, high blood, swelling (edema), urine fat (chyluria), ulceration, scabies , ulcers (ulcus) on the feet.

Kai-kaiq for Malaria to Cancer
Jarong or horse whip (Achyranthes Aspera) is known as Kai-kaiq in Mandar. The tree has many branches with an average height of 40-50 cm, but can grow up to 1 meter. The features of the leaves are oval and the edges are jagged with a size of about 5 x 3 cm. The flowers are purple and have a cylindrical handle. Along the shaft there are black grains.

Mandar people use this plant as livestock feed, but also used to treat malaria by drinking the extak of fresh leaves that have been boiled with water.

Chemical contents contained in this plant are reliosa, ramnosa, akirantin alkaloids, glucose and glucose. In the seed section contains hentriakkontan and sapogenin. While at the root contains betain, ecdysterone, triterpenoid, and saponins.

Other properties of kai-kaiq plants for Mandar tribe is to overcome strep throat, treat tonsillitis, relieve cough, overcome urinary tract infections, liver inflammatory drugs, prevent rheumatism, menstrual surge, prevent leucorrhea, hepatitis drugs, skin disease, anti-cancer, overcome the fungus, and refresh the body.

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