Cayenne pepper (cabe Rawit) (Capsicum frutescens L.)

    Synonyms:

    C. , Fastigiatum BL, C. minimum Roxb.

    Family:

    solanaceae.

Description:

Crop cultivation, sometimes planted in the garden as a vegetable or plant growing wild in fields and vacant land are abandoned. These plants originated from tropical America, like the dry, and is found at an altitude of 0.5 to 1250 m asl. Shrubs year, branching many, 50-100 cm tall. Jointed trunk or upper-book angle. Single leaf, stemmed, alternating the location. Leaf blade ovate, pointed tip, base narrow, flat edge, pertulangan pinnate, 5 to 9.5 cm long, 1.5 to 5.5 cm wide, green. Flowers out of the armpit leaves, crown shape stars, single flower or 2-3 adjacent flowers, white, white-green, sometimes purple. The fruit buni, erect, sometimes duck, egg-shaped, straight or curved, tapered tip, 1-3 cm long, 2.5 to 12 mm wide, long-stemmed, and spicy taste. Young fruit dark green, greenish white, or white, fruit masa.k bright red. Seeds many, flat round, 2 to 2.5 mm in diameter, dirty yellow. Cayenne pepper consists of three varieties, namely cengek leutik the fruit is small, green, and stand upright on the stem; cengek sheep (cengek bodas) whose fruit is greater than cengek leutik, young fruit is white, after parents became orange, and ceplik the large fruit, green when young and after dark to red. The fruit is used as a vegetable, spices, pickles, and pickled. Young leaves can be steamed to pepper lalap.Cabal can be propagated by seed.

Local Name:

NAME OF Sumatra: leudeuaarum, l. PENTEK (Gayo), situdu sky, Lacina sipane (Simelungmz), pepper limi (Nias), l. mutia (Malay). Java: chili, c. cengek (SLCnda), chilli jempling, l. jemprit, l. pepper, l. gambier, l. Satan, l. cempling (Java), cabhi letek, c. taena manok (Madc, RRA). Nusa Tenggara: Tabia krinyi (Bali), thin (Alor). Sulawesi: kaluya ship (bent.), Mareta dodi (Mongond.), malita Diti (Gorontalo), m. didi (Buol), pepper masiwu (Baree), l. marica, l. capa, lasso Meyong (Mak.), 1. Meyong, burica field, l. marica (Bug.), smooth rica, r. rice (Manado). Maluku: Abrisan grave (Seram), karatupa batawe (Elpaputi), katupu walata (Waraka), araputa patawe (Atamano), kalapita batawi (Amahai), karatuba manesane (Nuaulu), karatupa. batawi (Sepcc), maricang kekupe (Veda), rica gufu (Ternate). Guinea: metrek wakfoh (Sarmi), basen ground (Barik). NAME OF FOREIGN La jiao (C), cayenne peper (B), piment de cayenne (P), piment Enrage, guineapfeffer (J), pasites, sili (Tag.), cayenne, chilli (I). NAME Simplisia frutescentis Fructus capsici (fruit cayenne pepper).

Curable Disease:

Chili spicy taste, its hot, get in meridian heart and pancreas. This plant is nutritious tonic, powerful stimulant to the heart and blood flow, antirheumatic, destroy blood clots (anticoagulants), increased appetite (stomakik), stimulating the skin (if rubbed on the skin will cause a burning sensation. So, is used as a liniment mixture), laxative fart (carminative), sweating bullets (diaforetik), laxative saliva, and laxative urine (diuretic). Cayenne fruit extract has power drag on the growth of Candida albicans. Cabal pepper extract inhibition of 1 mg / ml equivalent to 6.20 mcg / ml nystatin in formamid (Tyas Ekowati Prasetyoningsih, FF UNAIR, 1987).

Utilization:

PART USED

All parts of the plant can be used as medicinal plants, such as berries, roots, leaves, and stems.

INDICATIONS

Cabal pepper is used for:

increase appetite,

normalize the legs and arms were limp,

cough with phlegm,

sense of nasal congestion relief for sinusitis,

migraine.

HOW TO USE

For drugs taken, cayenne fruit is used as needed. In this case can be boiled or cayenne pepper powder and pills made.

For external use, poached fruit cayenne pepper to taste, and the steam is used to heat parts of the body or ground cayenne until smooth, then turapkan to parts of the body, such as rheumatism, aching fingers because of the cold (frosbite). The mill leaves diturapkan to the hospital is used to treat stomach pain and ulcers.

EXAMPLE USE IN THE COMMUNITY

Legs and arms limp (like lame)

Provide two cayenne root weevil, 15 pairs of chicken feet were cut off just above the knee, 60 g peanuts, and 6 grains hung cao. Clean up the materials and cut into pieces as needed. Add water and wine as much until the ingredients completely submerged (approximately 1 cm above it). Furthermore, these herbs team. Once cool, strain and filter drinking water, twice a day, each half of the herb.

Sakitperut

Wash the taste of fresh young leaves, and grind until smooth. Add a little whiting and stir until blended. Apply these ingredients abdominal pain.

Rheumatism

Milled 10 pieces of cayenne pepper until smooth. Add 1/2 teaspoon of whiting and the juice of an orange juice, then stir until smooth. Apply these herbs on the sick body.

Frosbite

Discard seeds some fresh cayenne fruit, and grind until smooth, Secondly smeared to a hospital.

Note:

People with digestive disorders, sore throat, and sore eyes is recommended to not eat chili.

Spicy taste on the tongue cause stimulation to the brain to release endorphins (endogenous opiates) to relieve pain and induce a feeling healthier.

The results of a recent study, cayenne pepper can reduce the likelihood of blood clots (thrombosis), lower cholesterol levels by reducing the production of cholesterol and triglycerides in the liver.

In the reproductive system, the thermal properties of cayenne pepper can relieve tension and pain due to poor blood circulation. Moreover, the content of which is high in antioxidants (such as vitamin C and beta carotene), cayenne pepper can be used to overcome infertility (infertility), aphrodisiac, and slow the aging process.

Composition:

The fruit contain capsaicin, kapsantin, carotenoids, volatile alkaloids, resins, oils evaporate, vitamins (A and C). Capsaicin gives chili spicy taste, nutritious blood flow and skin pematirasa. Seeds contain solanine, solamidine, solamargine, solasodine, solasomine, and steroid saponins (kapsisidin). Kapsisidin efficacious as antibiotics.