Benefits Red Betel

 Common name: Red Sirih
Scientific name: Piper crocatum
Familia: Piperaceae

 Description of plant:

This type of red betel or in scientific language crocatum Piper is one kind of plant which is a betel piper betle vine with leaf shapes like hearts red usually live on the uplands,

Usually when the red betel planted in areas that have high levels of heat or direct sunlight on the trunks of red betel will quickly dry and red dye contained in the leaves will slowly fade.

Red Sirih Plant has actually been used by the people of Indonesia especially Java community since antiquity. benefits that are used not only as a medicinal plant from disease berbgai but also as uborampe used in traditional ceremonies as well as cosmetic tools beauty women Javanese past.

Chemical Ingredients

Chemical content contained in red betel include flavonoids, Polivenol, alkoloid, tannins, oils astsiri, saponin, hidroksikaficol, kavicol, kavibetol, allylprokatekol, karvokrol, eugenol, P-cymene, cineole, coryofelen, kadimen, ekstragol, terpenana, and phenyl propoda

Efficacy and Benefits

Chemical compounds contained in red siri has properties as follows: polivenol flavonoid compound and serves as an antioxidant, antideabetik, anticancer, antiseptic and antiflamasi. alkoloid compounds in red betel also be used as a barrier to the growth of cancer cells.

A study conducted by media me3mbuktikan white mice that red betel leaf decoction is given to white mice which had been affected by diabetes can lower blood sugar levels in the rat is proved that the red betel can be used as drugs to lower blood sugar levels and control levels blood sugar in the body penderitadiabetes mellitus in consumption on a regular basis. efficacious as a controller and in addition to lowering blood sugar levels in the body of red betel can also be used to cure other diseases such as hypertension, inflammation of the liver, prostate inflammation, inflammation of the eyes, whitish ulcer, blood of breast cancer, joint pain and can also be used as a guard stamina .

other than as a medicinal red betel also be utilized by the community as a uborampe jogja in events that customary courts are used to ngadi saliro and also used as a beauty tool by several princesses palace as a skin. Gynecology karvakol on red betel leaves is useful as desenfektan, and antifungal, so it serves as a mouthwash and vaginal discharge medication.
The content of eugenol compounds serve as sedatives or analgesics. tannin content serves as a healer especially diarrhea and abdominal pain can also be used as an antiseptic on the wound. Red betel can also be cultivated because this plant is very high economic value 4-5 pieces of red betel leaf prices reached 7-15 thousand dollars so it can be used as a living

Traditional herb Red Sirih

Drug Whitish
In early 2002, in a village on the slopes of Mount Merapi, Bambang Sadewo herbalist, author of Exterminate Disease with Red Sirih, inadvertently discovered this plant. Color glossy red bottom section with the shape not unlike the betel leaf green. Tamanannya panhandle beruas.Rasa elongated and red betel leaves are very bitter. The aroma is more sharply when compared with green betel.

Although the chemical content of these plants have not been studied in detail, the results are known krematogram red betel leaves contain flavonoids, compounds polevenolad, tannins, and essential oils. Effect of active substances contained red betel leaves can stimulate the central nervous and thinking power.

Red betel leaf has the effect of preventing premature ejaculation, anticonvulsant, antiseptic, analgesic, anti-dandruff, controlling blood sugar, liver, antidiarrheal, increase endurance, and relieve pain. Also believed to be able to overcome pneumonia, laryngitis, gingivitis, bleeding nose or nosebleeds, and coughing up blood.

Red betel leaf extract is also able to kill fungi Chandida albicans causes thrush. In addition, reducing sekrasi efficacious in the vagina, vaginal discharge and itching in the genitals, as well as cleaning wounds (antiseptic effect).

Empirically red betel leaf extract in a single use or formulated with other herbs capable of limiting the variety of complaints. Examples of blood sugar disorders, acute inflammation in body organs, wounds difficult to heal, breast cancer and cervical cancer, leukemia, tuberculosis and hepatitis, hemorrhoids, heart disease, high blood pressure, and uric acid.

The results Andayana Puspitasari, Apt., Of Pharmaceutical Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, red betel contain flavonoids, alkoloid, polifenolat compounds, tannins and essential oils. Utilizing this red betel leaf, except in the form of fresh, can also use the sun drying technique.

Bambang explained Sadewo herbalist, chopped red betel Dauh that has 60 percent dry Tampah placed in a covered with black cloth transparent. Closure with this fabric so no blurred leaves in the wind.

Once properly dried, red betel leaf is inserted into a plastic bag or clear transparent bold. The goal, so the quality of red betel guaranteed and can last up to one year.
Potions red betel, single or mixed
To mix the red betel leaves, according to Bambang Sadewo herbalist, may singly or mixed with other herbs. Here are some examples of red betel leaf ingredients for a variety of disorders:

1. heart
Single herb:- Take a betel leaf-sized pieces as much as 3-4 or 6-8 pieces of small size. Rinse, then sliced into small pieces. Boil the water by 4 cup (800 ml) to boiling and the remaining 2 cups, then strain. This herb is drunk while warm, twice daily before meals. Once one drink.
Herb with other herbs:
- Prepare a medium-size red betel leaves as much as 3-4 pieces, 30 grams of acid leaves, star fruit 2 pieces of vegetable, tuber dry dea and 3 grams of ginseng leaves 4 sheets. All material is washed, sliced ​​into small pieces, then boiled with three glasses of water (600 ml) until the remaining 1.5 cups. This herb is taken three times a day while warm. Can plus one teaspoon of honey. Once drank half a glass.

2. diabetes
Single herb:
- Pick three and a half of red betel leaves and old leaves from the top of the sixth or seventh. Wash all the leaves, then slice into small pieces. Boil the water as much as three cups (600 ml) to boiling and the remaining 1.5 cups. Drink three times daily before meals, to drink half a glass.

Herb with other herbs:
- Take three sheets of red betel medium-size, 40 grams of bark that had been cleaned gayam the outside, and 30 grams of dried bark jamblang. These materials are brewed with 2 cups (400 ml) of water until boiling and the remaining 1 cup. Strain and drink twice a day every morning and evening before meals. Once drank half a glass.

3. mouth organ
- Fresh betel leaves as many as 5 pieces, washed and boiled in two cups (400 ml) to boiling and the remaining 1 cup. Refrigerate, and use to gargle three times a day.
Note: This herb is excellent for treating bleeding gums, canker sores, cavities, bad breath, and sore throat.

 4. Cough or appetite enhancer
- Prepare the red betel leaf that is not too old as many as 10 sheets, wash, then soak in 70 percent alcohol for 30 minutes so that bacteria attached to the leaves die. Red betel leaves plus 100 grams of white sugar boiled with water 4 cups (800 ml) to boiling and the remaining one cup. Once cool, pour into a clean bottle and sterile. This herb can be taken three times a day, to drink a tablespoon.
 
5. female organs
Scarlet betel leaf as much as 8 sheets washed, then sliced ​​1 cm wide. Boiled with 800 ml of water until boiling. Once cool, the female organs are used to clean twice a day.

6. inflammation of the eye
- Take the red betel leaves are somewhat younger (fifth leaf from top) as much as 4 pieces, wash. Boil two cups water to boil and the remaining one cup. Once cool, the water used to soak a sore eye.

How to use: Eye cleaned (face wash) and then soaked with boiling water to taste red betel using special glasses. Use no more than three times a day to avoid irritation to the lining of the eye.

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