Ginger as antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-virus

Turmeric (Curcuma domestica Vahl.) Or more popularly known as Henda by Central Kalimantan Dayak community or turmeric by the Javanese and Sundanese language is koneng in medicinal plant native to Asia. Plants of Zingiberaceae family grows very well in Indonesia and are easily available in the market. The main part of turmeric that have medicinal properties is rimpangnya that are in the soil.
Turmeric tastes bitter and slightly spicy blend, a special smell aromatic, yellow and non-toxic. The main chemical compounds contained in turmeric rhizome is volatile oil and curcuminoids. The yellow color comes from turmeric containing curcumin curcuminoids. The aroma is of particularly volatile oil containing alcohol seskuitterpen. Turmeric rhizome also contains protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, fat. 
NUTRITION TURMERIC
Turmeric has been used for more than 2500 years in India, where it was most likely first used as a dye and medicine. Turmeric is extensively used in Ayurveda treatment, as it has antiseptic and antibacterial qualities, have the same effect with fluoride to teeth, heal psoriasis and joint inflammation, and helps digestive problems and depression. 
Some healing properties of turmeric in humans:1. In addition to having antimicrobial activity, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral properties, turmeric is also potentially increase the amount of antioxidants in the body. Curcumin, a natural phenolic compound in turmeric, can be useful to boost immunity.2. Turmeric potential in cancer treatment. In patients with cancer, creeping cancer cells through the blood vessels (metastasis) and their networks into a tumor. Angiogenesis is also true, that the growth of new blood vessels that tumors to spread to the supply of nutrients, oxygen and circulation dirt. Treat cancer with curcumin inhibited the growth rate of new vessels, the blood vessels.3. Women who are experiencing problems with menstruation can use turmeric to overcome. Pharmacologic effects of turmeric can launch and menstrual blood and reduces the pain and tired coming months.4. As a natural anticoagulant, turmeric may prevent blood clots and prevents thrombosis.5. Turmeric may lower blood pressure, treat diarrhea, stomach pain, asthma, appendicitis, and rheumatism.6. The nature of working with turmeric natural analgesics inhibit Cox-2 that triggers pain. With analgesic properties and antiinflamasinya, turmeric can treat arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.7. Senile disease can be slowed by frequently consume turmeric in food. Alzheimer's disease is one of senile diseases that occur generally in old age, when the brain is diminished physical capacity. Turmeric abilitas potentially extend the period for cognitive brain. Several studies prove that seniors in Asia that often consume curry (curry) containing turmeric has a better memory than seniors in other continents.

Desiccant Products turmericNow there are various products on the market that use turmeric as the main ingredients or additives in the ingredients. Among them are herbs. Jamu basically means, Äúobat strong, Äù or, Äúobat all, Äù and a local healing system that originated from Indonesia. Turmeric is a natural medicinal plants have been used since antiquity. Turmeric in medicinal or materials used by the women of scrubs to brighten skin tone and make it more healthy, smooth and seamless. It is because turmeric has antiseptic activity can eliminate itching and bacterial infections such as acne. Feast on fresh turmeric can restore the weary and exhausted body. In women, the herb turmeric can prevent the incidence of cysts or uterine cancer, because turmeric has anticancer activity.However, this pattern of adult life is more modern, more and more people are busy and no time to use the conventional turmeric. Some producers have been selling turmeric in powder form that is both practical and easy to use and durable, with a long expiration date. Turmeric in powder and capsule form is available at health stores at a dose of approximately 250-500 mg per capsule. Turmeric is also used by the cosmetics industry in sunscreen cream, hair removal products and scar treatment. 
Some recipes turmeric
There are a few tips to consume turmeric is empirically at home, that is, by way of turmeric rhizome decoction plus a few other ingredients in accordance with the disease who want to be treated. Here are some examples:

1. Fever: turmeric rhizome washed (20 gr), grated, plus 100ml boiled water, squeeze with filter cloth. Drinking water is 2 times a day. 
2. Diarrhea: turmeric sliced, boiled with water, add 1 teaspoon of whiting, stir until evenly. Cool. Screening drinking water 3 times a day until healed.
3. Tumors: turmeric grated thumb size, plus a teaspoon of whiting and noticed water 1 lemon, stirring until evenly. Apply the mixture on the body part that hurts.
4. Itching (chicken pox): a piece of turmeric, tamarind leaves a handful of washed, pasty blender until smooth. Apply on the itching part of the body.
5. Whiteness: Turmeric old (15 gr) peeled and grated. Added 150ml tamarind water and sugar and stir well. Squeeze the cloth, and drink every day.
6. Tonsillitis: half finger turmeric grated, plus 2 tablespoons water, stirring until evenly, extortion and take water. Add 1 egg yolk and a little chicken water whiting. Beat the dough, drink 1 to 2 times a day.
7. Inflamed gums: half thumb turmeric and sliced ​​3 pieces Clove. Boil in 2 cups of water until remaining 1 glass. Use water to rinse 3 to 4 times a day.
8. Late menstruation: turmeric and turmeric leaves (15 gr), nutmeg and cardamom seeds (10 gr), coriander, cumin and cloves (5 gr). Boil these ingredients with 3 cups of water until remaining 1 glass. Cool, filter, to be three parts to drink 3 times a day.
9. Skin and general health (herbal medicine): 100g fresh turmeric rhizome, lime juice 100 ml, 11/2 tablespoons of honey and water. Saffron mashed with the blender, add the saffron pasta with honey and lime juice. Add enough water. Drink regularly.

Wise consumeAlthough turmeric has many properties, its use should be judicious because excessive consumption can lead to complications. Turmeric should not be used by people with gallstones or bile obstruction. Pregnant women should consult their doctor before consume high amounts of turmeric for saffron can stimulate the uterus. Elderly people can not eat because of excess turmeric can cause stomach pain, kidney or liver disorders.
Article source: Mohanapriya Gunasekaran

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Central Kalimantan Dayak medication for insect bites and snake bites

Lai that's the name of Central Kalimantan Dayak people to plant ginger. One of the herbs that are very familiar in Indonesia. Ginger is often present in a variety of dishes, it has many health benefits. Ginger is the scientific name (Zingiber officinale Rosc).
Local Name: Jae (Java), ginger (Sunda); jae, Jahya (Bali); sipodeh (Minang); Melito (Gorontalo); jhai (Madura); lia (Flores), Goroka (Ternate) and late (East)General Characteristics of Ginger:It is a herbaceous plant annuals, erect and 40-50 cm high. Pseudo stem, grooved, forming rhizomes and green. Single leaf, lancet-shaped, flat edge, pointed tip, base obtuse, and colored hijua old. Compound interest, in the form of grain, narrow, pointed tip, 3.5 to 5 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide, funnel-shaped crown with a 2 to 2.5 cm long, and purple. Fruit boxes, elliptic, and brown. Seeds are round and black.Chemical Ingredients Ginger:Ginger contains essential oils around 1-3 percent. The main components of the essential oil of ginger aroma is causing zingiberen and zingiberol. Oleoresin content of ginger causes a bitter taste. Ginger oleoresin contains many components of a spicy flavor that does not evaporate. Components in ginger oleoresin consists of gingerol and zingiberen, shagaol, essential oils and resins. Ginger flavored spicy in the main is zingerol.Efficacy of Ginger:Since the first Ginger is used as a medicine, or herbs and various other purposes. Ginger can stimulate the digestive glands, both to arouse the appetite and digestion.Ginger is used as a spice in cooking especially efficacious to increase appetite, strengthen the stomach, and improves digestion. This is possible because the mucous membrane terangsangnya entrails removed by essential oils of ginger rhizome.Oil ginger contains gingerol a typical aromatic ginger, efficacious to prevent and treat nausea and vomiting, such as motion sickness or in young pregnant women. Also felt a sharp stimulates appetite, strengthen the intestinal muscles, help remove intestinal gas and help the heart function. In traditional Asian medicine, ginger is used to treat colds, coughs, diarrhea, arthritis and bone diseases such as arthritis. Ginger is also used to enhance the cleansing of the body through sweat.
Modern research has scientifically proven benefits of ginger, among others:• Lowers blood pressure (hypertension). This is because ginger stimulates the release of adrenaline and widens blood vessels, resulting in blood flow more quickly and smoothly and lighten the heart pumps blood.• Helps digestion, because ginger contains digestive enzymes protease and lipase, which digests each protein and fat.• Prevents blockage of blood vessels. Gingerol in ginger are anticoagulants, which prevent blood clotting. So to prevent blockage of the blood vessels, a major cause of stroke, and heart attack.• Prevent nausea, because ginger can block serotonin, a chemical that can cause the stomach to contract, causing nausea. Including nausea caused by motion sickness.• Creating a comfortable stomach, relieve stomach cramps and helps remove the wind.• Neutralize free radicals. Ginger also contains antioxidants that help neutralize the damaging effects caused by free radicals in the body.Ginger as Medicine Practice• a natural pain reliever and can relieve arthritic pain, headaches, and migraines. The trick, ginger drink 3 times a day. Can also take rounds wedang, ginger candy, ginger or add time to the soup, stew, or rendang.• Leaves ginger is also efficacious as a compress on headache medicine and can be sprinkled into the faces of people who are shivering. The trick to the ground and given little water can be used as a compress on headache medicine and can be sprinkled into the faces of people who are shivering.• Strengthen digestion and expel gas in it, treating a swollen liver, cough and fever. You do this by mashing ginger and boil in boiling water for about ½ hour, then drink the water.• Treating arthritis. Prepare 1 or 2 ginger rhizome. Heat the rhizome above the fire or coals and then ground. Ginger paste impact on the body of arthritic pain. Another way is dengam mashing with cloves, and pasted on the body of rheumatism.• Treating wounds abrasions, sharp objects stabbed, hit by spikes, falls, and snake bites. How red ginger crushed and added a little salt. Put on the injured body part.• Treat itching due to insect stings. You do this by mashing and rhizomes are used as a liniment.• Treating wounds poisonous snake bite. You do this by mashing ginger and a little salt, then placed on a poisonous snake bite wound (just as first aid before the patient was taken to the doctor)taken from various sources

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leatherback acid as Cough, Gout Drug, Drug Sprue

STAR FRUIT ACIDS
Galimbing Tunjuk (Borneo Dayak language) or belimbing asam (Indonesian) or Averhoa bilimbi, Linn. (Latin) included in arilidaceae tribes that came from the Americans. Efficacious among others, could treat Cough, Rheumatism and Sprue
Specifications plants:
leatherback acid (Averhoa Bilimbi) can grow well in open places that have a height of less than 500 meters above sea level. This plant height can reach more than 10 meters and has a hard stem. In his home country, this plant grows well in the tropics and in Indonesia, many kept in the yard or sometimes grows wild in fields or forest edge.
The trunk is not only complains has branches, leaves hersirip being fulfilled. The flowers are small red or purple hanging with fruit lengthwise and hollow it contains seeds. The flesh contains a lot of water that taste sour.
Star fruit acid content of chemical elements have called oxalic acid and potassium.
Another name for sour star fruit crops:

• Belimbing Asam (Indonesia)
• Belimbing Wuluh (Jawa)
• Calincing (Sunda)
• Bhalimbing bulu (Madura)
• Blimbing buluh (Bali)
• Limbi (Bima)
• Bainang (Ujung Pandang)
• Takurela (Ambon)
• Celane (Bugis)

Efficacy and benefits for the treatment of:
• Treating Cough Way, take 1 handful of flowers and 1 slice sour star fruit sugar then boiled together with 1 cup of water to boil down to 1/2 cup drink morning and evening routine.

• Treating Gout Way, take 1 handful of leaves sour star fruit plus whiting then mashed together rub as param.

• Treating Thrush Way, take 11 flowers sour star fruit, tamarind and brown sugar together and then boiled with 2 cups water to boil down to 1 cup drunk in the morning and afternoon.

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Uru Sambelum or duck bill Sprain and Pain Medication For Teeth

duck bill or the Borneo Dayak language called Uru Sambelum (Latin: Kalanchoe pinnata syn. Bryophyllum calycinum syn. Bryophyllum pinnatum) is a succulent plant (containing water), which according to the info comes from Madagascar. But for the dayak plants known hereditary ancestors for hundreds of years. This plant is known for its method of reproduction through leaf buds (buds / adventitious) and common in tropical climates such as Asia, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, Makaronesia, Maskarenes, Galapagos, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Hawaii. In the region, duck bill popularly used as an ornamental plant at home but there are many that grow wild in gardens and moat edge many rocky soil.
Plant stems and soft duck bill edged. Thick fleshy leaves and contains a lot of water. Green leaf color (sometimes gray). Compound interest, fruit boxes. If it feels a bit sour and eaten cold.
duck bill contains malic acid, resin, mucus substances, magnesium malate, calcium oxalate, formic acid, and tannins. Commonly used as a traditional medicine to cure a headache, cough, chest pain, ulcers, and other skin diseases, cure fever, irregular menstrual smooth, cure wounds, and ulcers.
Some traditional treatment techniques using plants duck bill include:
• Treating scars / sores from mosquito bites. Way, take 5-10 duck bill leaves, finely crushed, then squeeze. Rub the bite of mosquitoes. Do it 3 times a day as needed.
• Curing sprain the ankle / arm. The trick, take 10 duck bill leaves, finely minced, then put on the foot / hand pain for 30 minutes. Do it 3 times a day until healed.
• Treating toothache. Way, take the duck bill leaves to taste, then finely minced, then stick to the face (cheeks) are swollen. Do as much as necessary

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The Plant Crown God Conquering Cancer

Crown god or called Mahkota Dewa is one of Indonesian medicinal plants were shown to treat minor ailments such as itching, aches, or flu, to serious illnesses such as cancer and diabetes.
The plant's crown god possessed extraordinary property. He can cure health problems from mild to almost no hope of recovery. If it was just sore, definitely secured within a few days recovering. Even Diabetes can be cured in a few months.
What about cancer? Although take many months, the plant crown god is guaranteed and can remove up to last cancer cell. At least it is based on empirical experience of many people, including those cured of the disease in the liver or heart disease, hypertension, rheumatism, and gout.
To cultivate a medicine that is the way to brew as a tea made from the skin and flesh of fruit, fruit shells, or leaves. Just feels a bit bitter, but guaranteed good properties for the body.
Plant crowns god (Phaleria macrocarpa) by reportedly came from mainland Papua, which if in Central Java and Yogyakarta dubbed Makuto Dewo, Makuto rojo, or Makuto Ratu. Banten people call it the king of drugs, because properties can cure various diseases. Meanwhile, people from ethnic Chinese called pau, which means the drug heirlooms.

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A Red Betel Borneo

As one kind of plant that has been known for its efficacy in curing various diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes and many other uses betel plant apparently also features a variety of types. One of them is the Red Betel Borneo. This plant contains chemicals such as flavonoids, alkaloids, planolod compounds, tannins and essential oils.
Red betel Borneo called for in accordance with its name derived from Borneo that made the difference with the type commonly known as betel. Between regular and red betel betel Borneo are similarities in terms of characteristics.

That distinguishes between the two types of betel is on veins or leaf fibers. Red betel leaf fiber borneo slightly reddish colored, as well as red-colored stalks. Red betel vine growth is, therefore, necessary wooden poles as the growth medium. Betel leaf shape and color similar to the Red Borneo regular Betel is somewhat oval and green.
Growing media Borneo Red Betel slightly different from plants in general. It adapts to its natural habitat. In Borneo Red Betel media moss living on soil similar to smooth greenish moss. It is said that the media is able to keep moisture alias is always wet. Because habitat Red Betel grow under shady trees indicate that this plant likes shade.

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