Blustru (Luffa cylindrica [L.] Roem.))

Blustru

    (Luffa cylindrica [L.] Roem.))

    Synonyms:

    L.aegyptica Mill., L. pentandra Roxb., L. cattupincinna Ser., L. faetida Sieb. et Zucc., L. petola Ser., Momordica L. cylirzdrica

    Family:

    Cucurbitaceae.

Description:

Generally, blustru planted in fields, propagated on the fence as vegetables, or growing wild in the bush, the river, and the beach. Terna season, the length of the stem can reach 2-10 m, climbing with tendrils (pembelit tool) that comes out of the armpit leaves. Single leaf, petiole 4-9 cm long, alternate location. Leaf blade ovate dilated, notched menjari 5-7 pieces, base heart-shaped leaves, the veins prominent beneath, the surface color of dark green leaves, the color of 

Local Name:

LOCAL NAME: Sumatra: blustru (Malay) - hurung Java, ketola, timput (Palembang). Java: lopang, squash (Sunda), bestru, blestru, blustru (Java). Maluku: dodahala (Halmahera), petola length, p. china. FOREIGN NAME: The cave luo (C), patola, taboboc (Tag.), sponskomkommer, zeefkomkommer (B), sponge gourd, towel gourd, loofah (I). Name bulbs Retinervus Luffae Fructus (fruit fiber blustru), Luffae Folium, (leaf blustru).

Curable Disease:

The nature and efficacy blustru sweet fruit, its cool, it makes meridian liver, stomach, and kidneys. Fruit blustru efficacious as a laxative sputum, stop bleeding (hemostatis), a mild laxative (laxative), and clean the heat (the heat is palpable and feeling hot inside) and toxins. Seeds blustru bitter, cold nature, and toxic. Blustru nutritious seeds to escape the heat, laxative urine (diuretic), stimulants vomiting (emetic), laxatives, stomach worm eradication (antelmintik), laxative menstruation and stimulate spending ASI (laktagoga). Leaves efficacious laxative to cleanse the blood and menstruation. Flowers blustru sweet, slightly bitter and cold nature. Coir sweet, neutral nature, it makes meridian lung, stomach, and liver. Coir efficacious as a laxative sputum, pain relievers (analgesics), antirheumatic, as well as blood circulation and nerve. The roots of sweet, neutral nature, nutritious blood circulation and relieve swelling. Trunk bitter, cold nature, toxic, entered the heart meridian, spleen, and kidneys. Trunk efficacious blood circulation and antelmintik. Blustru 10% leaf extract can increase uterine contractions marmots apart than the effect. Sekole kornutum. The increase was not caused by the presence of ions Ca, Na, and K are present in leaf extracts blustru (Astuti, FF Widman, 1989). Freshly, infusion and ethanol extracts of fruit can blustru merighambat clan motility of human spermatozoa viability of normal in vitro (Sila Hesti Rahayu, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, FF UNAIR, 1992). Providing seed isolates blustru influential in the process of inhibition of formation of sperm (spermatogenesis) mice (day Dwi Mulyani, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, FF UNAIR, 1992).

Utilization:

PART USED

Parts used are all parts of plants, such as fruit, fruit leather, fruit stems, seeds, husks, leaves, flowers, stems, and roots.

INDICATIONS

Fruit used to treat:

fever, thirst, coughing spasms, vaginal discharge, irregular menstruation, breast milk (ASI) is not smooth, hard bowel movements, bleeding, such as bloody urine, nosebleeds, and ulcers.

Seeds used to treat:

face, hand, and leg swelling (edema), urinary tract stones, worms, back pain, and hemorrhoids.

The leaves used to treat:

shortness of breath, do not come menstruation (amenorrhea), inflammation of the testicles (orchitis), burns, boils, ringworm, and bitten by a snake.

The rind is used to overcome:

boils, abscesses areas rectum (end of the colon), and wounds.

Flowers used to treat:

cough with spasms, sore throat, sinusitis, hemorrhoids, and ulcers.

Coir is used to overcome:

chest pain, abdominal pain, back pain, arthritic joints, stiff, cough with phlegm, do not come menstruation, breast swelling, breast milk (ASI) slightly, hemorrhoids, inflammation of the testicles (orchitis), and ulcers.

Charcoal from fiber used to:

stop the bleeding, such as bleeding outside of menstruation, bloody urine, and dysentery.

Roots used to treat:

migraines, back pain, sore throat, sores that do not want to break, and swollen breasts (mastitis).

Rod used to treat:

numbness, irregular menstruation, runny nose, and swelling (edema).

Fruit stalk is used for the treatment of:

chicken pox in children.

HOW TO USE

For drugs taken, the ingredients can be prepared in the following manner.

Boiled or roasted 100-150 g of fresh fruit or 10-15 g dried fruit (fruit that is burned to a powder).

Boil or gongseng 5-10 g seed, and grind to a powder.

Boil or milled 50-150 g of fresh leaves. The leaves are rolled, then squeezed juice and water drink. Another way, dry leaves, and grind to a powder.

Boil 10-15 g flowers.

Boil or bake 10-15 g fiber. Coir is baked, then grind to a powder.

Boil 50-150 g fresh root or 5-15 g of dried root. Besides boiled, dried roots can be ground to a powder.

Boil 50-100 mg bars or powder to be dried.

For external use, apply the juice of fresh fruit to a hospital. In addition, the treatment can also be done by affixing the powder of dried fruit, seeds, leaves, husks, or rods in a hospital. Water decoction of the leaves or roots can be used to wash wounds. The rind is baked until dry, then ground finely and add the wine to taste, it can be applied to the place of the sick. Finely ground fresh flowers can be attached to a hospital.

EXAMPLE OF USE

a. Irregular menstruation

Wash fruit blustru by 4 fingers thoroughly, then grate. Add 1/2 cup cooking water and the tip of a teaspoon of fine salt as he crumpled. Once blended, the herb was squeezed clan filtered. Water collected while drunk. Do it 3 times a day.

b. Facilitating breastfeeding

Ripe fruit blustru katuk clan leaves become translucent and the vegetables can be eaten with rice.

c. Lumbago

1. Gongseng blustru beans taste until charred, then ground into powder and put into a jar. If you want to use, take as much as 10 g and enter into a 1/2 shot of arak. Toss well, then endapkan. Water is taken at the same time, while the waste is affixed to the waist of the sick.

2. Wash the roots blustru taste, then burn covered with tiles. Once dry, grind to a powder roots and put into jars. Each time use, take 10 g of powder, then put in 1/2 shot of warm wine and drink as well.

d. Shortness of breath

Wash S blustru young leaves are still fresh until clean. Furthermore, asapkan awhile and eat with rice as a salad. Do it 2 times a day.

e. Cough with shortness

Wash 10-15 g blustru interest thoroughly, then boiled in three cups of water until t

Composition:

Fruit contains triterpene saponins, luffein (bitter substances), citrulline, and cucurbitacin. The sap contains saponins, mucilage, fat, protein, xylan, and vitamins (B and C). Seeds contain fatty oil, squalene, a-spinasterol, cucurbitacin B, and protein. Flowers containing glutamine, aspartic acid, arginine, lysine, and alanine. Coir containing xylan, xylose, mannosan, galactan, saponins, cellulose, galactose, manitosa, and vitamins (A, B, and C). The leaves and stems contain saponins and tannins. Luffein efficacious as a mild laxative and triterpene saponins have spermatisidal activity (kills sperm) so that it can be developed as oral contraceptives (family planning).