Carambola Sweet (Averhoa carambola)

Carambola Sweet

    (Averhoa carambola)

    Synonyms:

    Family:

    Oxalidaceae

Description:

Small trees, up to 10 m with a trunk that is not so great and has a diameter of only about 30 cm. Planted as a fruit tree, sometimes growing wild and are found from the lowlands to 500 m dpi. Tree from tropical America where it wants to grow is not shaded and moist enough. Carambola wuiuh has rough stems berbenjol-bumps, branching slightly, leaning over him. Haired young branches smooth as velvet, the color brown. Leaves odd pinnate compound leaf form with 21-45 pairs of leaflets. Children short-stemmed leaves, oblong rounded shape teiur up, pointed tip, base rounded, flat edge, 2-10 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, green color, light green lower surface......................

Local Name:

Sweet carambola (Indonesia), leatherback Manih (Minangkabau); leatherback legi (Java), leatherback fishy (Sunda); Bhalimbing Manes (Madura), Balirang (Bugis);

Curable Disease:

Diabetes Mellitus, Cholesterol, Hypertension;

Utilization:

PART USED: Leaves, flowers, fruit.

PURPOSE:

Interest:

- Cough.

- Sprue (stomatitis)

Leaves:

- Stomach pain. Mumps (parotitis).

- Rheumatism.

Fruit:

- Whooping cough.

- Bleeding gums, canker sores.

- Sick of cavities.

- Acne. Phlegm.

- High blood pressure.

- Paralysis.

- Improve digestive function.

- Inflammation of the rectum.

USAGE:

To drink: See recipe.

Pamakaian outside: Leaves taste after finely milled washed up like mush, used sebagal poultice (local usage) in mumps, Rheumatism, acne, tinea versicolor.

HOW TO USE:

1. Pagel rheumatic pain:

    1 handful of leaves wuiuh young starfruit, 10 clove seeds,

    15 seeds pepper, finely ground then add vinegar to taste.

    Lumurkan place of the sick.

2. Mumps:

    10 young twigs following wuiuh starfruit leaves and 4 onions

    red after washed and finely ground. Apply to the place

    the sick.

3. Cough in children.

    Handful wuiuh starfruit flower, a few grains of anise, sugar

    taste and 1 cup water, steamed for several hours. After

    cold filtered with a piece of cloth, divided for 2 times drinks,

    morning and evening empty stomach.

4. Cough:

    25 flowers starfruit, 1 finger rhizome Intersection bells, 1 finger

    cinnamon bark, 1 finger rhizome kencur, 2 red onions, 1/4

    handheld gotu kola, 1/4 handful sage leaves, 1/4 handheld leaf

    inggu, 1/4 handheld leaf spoon, washed and cut into pieces

    necessary, boiled with 5 cups water until remaining 2 1/4

    glass. After chilling filtered, drink with honey as necessary.

    3 times a day 3/4 cup.

5. Whooping Cough:

    a. 10 star fruit. starfruit washed and ground smooth,

        kneaded with 2 tablespoons of salt water, then filtered. Drinking,

        do 2 times a day.

    b. Star fruit wuiuh made sweets, eat 3 times a day 6-8 pieces.

6. Rheumatism:

    a. 100 gr of young leaves starfruit, 10 clove seeds and 15 seeds

        washed and finely ground pepper, add vinegar to taste

        until it becomes dough like mush. Spread batter slurry was

        the place of the sick.

    b. 5 pieces starfruit, 8 leaves kantil (Michelia champaca

        L.) seeds 15 cloves, 15 grains of black pepper, washed and pounded

        smooth, kneaded with 2 tablespoons lime juice and

        1 tablespoon eucalyptus oil. Used to rub

        and massaging parts of the body. Do it 2-3 times a day.

7. Thrush:

    a. Segenggarn flowers starfruit, sugar to taste and

        1 cup boiling water until thickened. After chilling filtered,

        used to clean and lubricate the mouth ulcers.

    b. 2/3 handheld wuiuh starfruit flowers, washed and boiled with

        3 cups water until remaining 2 1/4 cups. After the cold

        filtered and drunk, 3 times a day 3/4 cup.

    c. 3 wuitjh star fruit, red onion 3 eggs, 1 nutmeg

        young leaves 10 sprue, 3/4 teaspoon fennel, 3/4 fingers

        pulosari, washed and finely ground, kneaded with 3 tablespoons

        eating coconut oil, squeezed and filtered. Used for

        greasing the wounds caused by canker sores, 6-7 times a day.

8. Acne:

    a. Fruit starfruit sufficiently washed and finely ground,

        kneaded with salt water as needed, to rub the face

        with acne. Do it 3 times a day,

    b. 6 pieces starfruit and 1/2 teaspoon of powdered sulfur,

        finely ground and kneaded with 2 tablespoons lime juice.

        This herb is used to scrub and facial grease

        acne. Do it 2-3 times a day.

9. Panu:

    10 pieces starfruit washed and finely ground, add the lime

    Betel of tamarind seeds, kneaded until smooth. This herb is used

    to rub the affected skin tinea versicolor. Apply 2 times a day.

10. High blood pressure.

     a. 3 bua

Composition:

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS pharmacological: Sour taste, cool. Relieve pain (analgesic), multiply expenditure bile, anti-inflammatory, laxative urine, astringent. CHEMICAL CONTENT: Stem: saponins, tannins, glucoside, calcium oxalate, suifur, formic acid, peroxidase. Leaves: Tanin, suifur, formic acid, peroxide, calcium oxalate, potassium citrate.