Flower Knobs (Gomphrena globose Linn.)

Flower Knobs

    (Gomphrena globose Linn.)

    Synonyms:

    Family:

    Amaranthaceae

Description:

Annual herb, height 60 cm. or more, hairless. Planted in the yard as an ornamental plant or grow wild in the fields gets enough sunlight to a height of approximately 1400 m. from sea level, comes from America and Asia. Green stem reddish, hairy, branching increases in segment, sitting opposite leaves, stalks, leaf shape to elongated ovoid breech, with 5-10 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, green-haired tapered tip at the top of the rough and smooth bottom, white hair color. Flowers hump shape, color purplish crimson, like a ball. (There are white).

Local Name:

Flower knobs, flower puter, ratnapakaja (Indonesia); Fennel-adasan, bald (Java), Taimantulu (Gorontalo).; Qian hong (China).;

Curable Disease:

Asthma, Cough, Sore eyes, headache, bad Mimpu; Sick heat, dysentery;

Utilization:

PART USED:

Flowers or the whole plant, fresh or dried.

PURPOSE:

1. Bronchial asthma, airway inflammation, acute and chronic (acute

    and chronic bronchitis).

2. Whooping Cough (Pertussis)

3. Sore eyes, headache

4. Heat in children, nightmares (night screaming).

5. Dysentery.

USAGE: 9-15 grams, boiled.

EXTERNAL USE:

Crushed fresh plants, worn on the body of the sick or boiled, for washing. Used for sores or scabs hit.

HOW TO USE:

1. Bronchial Asthma:

    10 flowers boiled, plus yellow wine, drink it

    rutine 3 times.

2. Urination is not smooth: 3-10 grams of boiled flowers, drunk.

3. Heat in children (due to liver disorders):

    7-14 fresh flowers boiled, drinking.

4. Dysentery:

    10 plus wine fresh flowers yellow, boiled, drinking.

5. Bronchitis Chronis:

    It made injectable drugs, injected at acupuncture points. 10%

    patients, arising dryness in the throat after a

    injections, but only temporarily.

Composition:

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS pharmacological: sweet taste, neutral. Anti cough, shortness eliminate (antiasthmatic), treatment of eye inflammation. CHEMICAL CONTENT: Gomphresin I, II, Ill, V, VI.