Spinach (Amaranthus tricolor L.)

Posted by Imam Syafei Sunday, November 18, 2012 0 komentar
Spinach
    (Amaranthus tricolor L.)

    Synonyms:
    A.gangeticus

    Family:
    amaranthaceae.

Description:
Spinach originated from tropical America. Until now, the plant has spread in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. In Indonesia, the spinach can be grown throughout the year and is found at an altitude of 5-2000 m asl, grows in hot and cold, but it grows more fertile. lowland open land where the air is rather hot. Herba year, upright or leaning slightly, from 0.4 to 1 m tall, and branching. 
Stems weak and watery. Leaves stemmed, oval, limp, 5-8 cm long, blunt tip, base tapering, and it's green, red, or green discharge. Flowers in a skein that meeting, sitting at the bottom of the armpit, the top gathering a bouquet of flowers at the end of the stem and axillary branching. Flower-shaped grains. Spinach sold in the market and commonly consumed as a vegetable called spinach or spinach sekul cabutan. There are three varieties of spinach are included in Amaranthus tricolor, namely ordinary green spinach, red spinach (Blitum rubrum), the stems and leaves of red, white and spinach (Blitum album), a whitish green. For information, spinach leaves and red stems containing a red liquid. Besides A. tricolor, spinach there are other types, such as spinach snapper (A. hybridus), spinach spines (A.spinosus), and spinach kotok / spinach ground (A.blitum). Type of spinach is often cultivated A. tricolor and A. hybridus whereas other types of wild spinach. Harvest spinach unplug the longest for 25 days. After that, quality will decline because the leaves become stiff. Spinach can disayur nodes, made gado-gado, pecal, or boiled for salad. Sometimes, young spinach leaves and wide use as a peanut brittle materials. Spinach plants can be propagated by seed.

Local Name:
LOCAL NAME: Jakarta: spinach glatik, b. white, b. Red. Java: spinach abrit, b. weak, b. ringgit, b. Sekul, b. siti. Maluku: Java lufife, tona ma gaahu, hohoru itoka Tokara, aged roriha, Loda kohori. Foreign Name: Chinese spinach (I) botanicals Name: Amaranthi tricoloris Folium (spinach leaves), Amaranthi tricoloris Radix (roots of spinach).

Curable Disease:
In general, plant spinach can improve kidney function and digestion. The roots of red spinach efficacious as a cure dysentery. Spinach including fibrous vegetables that can be used to expedite the process of defecation. Fibrous foods are highly recommended to be consumed by people with colon cancer, patients with diabetes (diabetes mellitus), high blood cholesterol, and lose weight. Infusion of 30% red spinach leaves orally can increase the levels of serum iron, hemoglobin, and hematocrit rabbit made real anemia. The increase was not different when compared with the group of rabbits given sulfas ferosus. As a comparison, use distilled water. (Ernawati Santoso, Faculty of Pharmacy, Widman, 1986).

Utilization:

PART USED:
Plant parts used are the leaves and roots.

Indications:
Spinach leaves are used for the treatment of:
clean up blood after birth,
strengthens hair roots,
low blood pressure,
anemia (anemia), and
kidney failure.

The roots are used for treatment: dysentery

HOW TO USE
For drugs taken, provide 25-30 g of fresh leaves, then boiled and eaten as a salad. Besides boiled spinach can also be blended to drink.
For external use only, minced fresh spinach leaves until tender, then put on the wounds of venomous animal bites.

EXAMPLE USE IN THE COMMUNITY:
Increasing the kidneys, cleanse blood after birth Spinach can be consumed in the form of vegetable nodes.

Anemia
Wash three handfuls of spinach leaves red, then mash until smooth. Add one tablespoon of lemon juice, then strain. Next, add a tablespoon of honey and a chicken egg yolks and stir until smooth, then this potion drunk and treating> 7atan done once a day for a week. Furthermore, treatment can be done twice weekly until healed.

Dysentery
Wash the root of 10 stems of red spinach thoroughly, then mash until smooth. Add tip of a teaspoon of fine salt, stirring evenly, then strain. For treatment, drinking water filters at once.

Strengthen hair roots
Wash one bunch of fresh spinach leaves and stems thoroughly, then mash until smooth. Add tip of a teaspoon of fine salt, stirring evenly. Next, squeeze and strain and drink as well. Do it 2-3 times a week.

Note
Patients with blood uric acid levels are high enough and rheumatic gout prohibited eating too much spinach because this vegetable contains high purine. In the body, purines be metabolized into uric acid.

For treatment, red spinach considered more nutritious than spinach greens.

Composition:
Spinach contains proteins, fats, carbohydrates, potassium, iron, amarantin, routine, purines, and vitamins (A, B and C).
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Judul: Spinach (Amaranthus tricolor L.)
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