Small Bungur (Lagerstroemia indicct L.)

Small Bungur

    (Lagerstroemia indicct L.)

    Synonyms:

    L. chinevsis L.

    Family:

    lythraceae.

Description:

Typically, small Bungur grown as an ornamental plant in the garden and in the home page or can be found as a wild plant on the edge of the cliffs and forest. These plants originated from China and Korea. Shrubs or small trees, 2-7 m tall, arching branches, tree brown, smooth and somewhat shiny. Leaves single, short-stemmed, alternate location. Leaf blade elliptic or elongated shape, blunt tip, base wedge, flat edge, dark green, 2-7 cm long, 1-4 cm wide. Compound interest form panicle, 10-50 cm long, wavy edge petals, red, white, or purple, out of the end of the stem or axillary panicles. The fruit is slightly rounded, 9-13 mm long, 8-11 mm wide. Small Bungur can be propagated by seed.

Local Name:

NAME OF Bungur Japan. FOREIGN NAME Zi wei hua, tzu hui (C), crape myrtle (I). NAME Simplisia Lagerstroemiae indicae Radix (roots of small Lagerstroemia), Lagerstro miae indicae Flos (Lagerstroemia small flowers).

Curable Disease:

Root feels a bit bitter, neutral nature, astringent. Efficacy small Bungur root is stimulating the circulation, stop bleeding (hemostatis), anti-inflammatory, laxative urine (diuretic), and neutralize toxins (detoksikan). Flowers, leaves, and bark efficacious as a laxative (laxative).

Utilization:

PART USED

The part used is the roots, flowers, leaves, and bark. Wash these materials, and in the sun to dry, that can be stored and used, if needed.

INDICATIONS

Lagerstroemia small roots are used for treatment: stop the bleeding, such as coughing up blood, vomiting blood, dysentery, wounds bleeding, bleeding after childbirth, inflammation of the liver (hepatitis), jaundice (jaundice), abdominal edema (ascites), leg swelling (edema) , Tripterygium wilfordii poisoning, dysentery, abdominal pain after childbirth, toothache, headache, and vaginal discharge.

HOW TO USE

For drugs taken, boiled 15-30 g root and drink boiled water.

For external use, boil the ingredients taste fresh, and the water used to wash the body of the sick. In addition, the ground dry ingredients to form a powder. Furthermore, Dab powder to the areas of pain, such as broken bones (fractures), boils, sores, abscesses, eczema, and inflammation of the breast (mastitis).

EXAMPLE USE IN THE COMMUNITY

Coughing up blood, vomiting blood, dysentery, and other bleeding

Boil 30 g roots in 200 cc of water until the remaining 80 cc. Once cool, strain and filter drinking water, twice a day, each of 40 cc.

Dysentery

Boil 20 g of leaf or root in three cups of water until the remaining half. Once cool, strain and filter drinking water, three times a day, each 1/2 cup.

Acute dysentery, infectious hepatitis

Wash 15 g 15 g roots and leaves little Lagerstroemia, then boiled in three cups of water until the remaining one cup. Once cool, strain the water boiled and divided into two parts for two drinks, morning and evening. Every time you drink 1/2 cup, plus honey to taste.

Ulcer, ulceration

Dry the roots or flowers Lagerstroemia sufficiently small, then milled until smooth. Add white wine to taste to form a thick porridge, then apply to the sick body and. wrapped with a bandage. For drugs taken, boiled 30 g root in three cups of water until the remaining one cup. Once cool, strain and filter drinking water, twice a day, each 1/2 cup.

Eczema

Wash the roots or leaves to taste until clean, then boiled in water until boiling (for 15 minutes). In warm conditions, this herb can be used to wash the affected body part eczema.

Note

Pregnant women are prohibited from taking this herb stew because it can interfere with fetal development.

Composition:

Leaves contain decinine, decamine, lagerstroemine, lagerine, dihydroverticillatine, and decodine. Roots contain sitosterol, 3,3 ',4-tri-o-methylellagic acid.