Flowers Tasbih (Canna indica Linn.)

    Synonyms:

    Canna orientalis, Roscoe. Canna patens, Roscoe.

    Family:

    Cannaceae

Description:

Terna large, annual, up to 2 m., The ground has a thick rhizome as sweet. The leaves are large and wide, nyirip clear green (no colored tengguli). Large flowers with bright colors (red, yellow) are arranged in a series of shaped bunches. Fruits such as fruit kendaga, seeds many, round. Almost always grown as an ornamental plant, but it grows wild in the forests and the mountains to an altitude of 1,000 above sea level. The other type, Canna edulis To Gawl. (Canna) have smaller petals, green leaves with a ping over tengguli tengguli. Planted as an ornamental, edible rhizomes, in Australia as a producer of flour, known as the "arrowroot of Queensland".

Local Name:

Gany forest (Malay), Nyong wana, canna base (Java); Ganyol leuweung (Sunda), Puspanyidra; Mel gene ren jiao (China);

Curable Disease:

Fever, hypertension, dysentery, vaginal discharge, jaundice; Coughing up blood, bleeding wounds, purulent skin inflammation, acne; Haid much;

Utilization:

PART USED: Root and rhizome (fresh or dried), flowers (dried). PURPOSE: - Lowering the heat (antipyretic), high blood pressure, chronic dysentery, metrorrhagia (menstruation lot), vaginal discharge (leucorrhoe), jaundice (acute icteric hepatitis), coughing up blood (hemoptysis). - Use outside: wound bleeding, purulent skin inflammations, acne (acne vulgaris). USE: The root / rhizome: 15-30 gr. dried or 30-60 grams. wet. Flowers: 10-15 gr. EXTERNAL USE: The root / rhizome fresh crushed, to be attached to the place of the sick. HOW TO USE: 1. Acute icteric hepatitis: Drink decoction of the roots of the rosary: ​​60 - 120 g (maximum dose of 250 gr.) Per day, divided by 2 times the drink, for 20 days, maximum 47 days. 2. Stopping the bleeding: 10-15 gr. flower beads, boiled, drinking. 3. Whitish: 15-30 gr. + beads + root sticky chicken: in the team.

Composition:

KIMAWI NATURE AND EFFECTS OF PHARMACOLOGY: taste a bit sweet, cool, fever, lowers blood pressure, sedatives (tranqui-lizer). CHEMICAL CONTENT: Rhizome contains 6 substance phenol, 2 and 4 terpene coumarin, starch, glucose, entry alkaloids and latex.