Leaves Gout (Plumbago zeylanica L.)

    Synonyms:

    = P. auriculata, Bl. = Tela alba, Lour.

    Family:

    Plumbaginaceae

Description:

This plant comes from Sri Lanka, and then spread throughout the tropics, including Indonesia and the Pacific islands. Gout leaves growing wild in the fields, on the banks of waterways or planted in the garden as living fences and other places as high as + 800 m dpi. Shrubs ascending annual, long-trunked, height 0.6 - 2 m. Woody stems, round, smooth, grooved,

Local Name:

Leaves gout, rheumatism ki (Sunda), ceraka (Sumatra); Bama, Godong gout, poksor (Java). kareka (Madura), Bama (Bali), oporie (East). ; Agni, chitra, chitraka (India, Pakistan); Ceylon leadwort, white flowered leadwort (UK).;

Curable Disease:

Arthritic joints, bruising (bruises), sprains, stomach pain, ringworm,; cancer and blood cancer.;

Utilization:

PART USED: Roots and herbs.

INDICATION:

Indications Root efficacious to overcome:

- Arthritic joints, bruising (hematoma),

- Sprains, stomach pain,

- Ringworm, and blood cancers.

HOW TO USE:

Root 10 - 15 g, boiled for more than 4 hours.

External use, the leaves crushed and placed on the body that got rheumatism, lumbago, bruises, ringworm, leprosy, scabies, sore to style or placed in the lower abdomen when urinating less smoothly. When using these leaves squeeze of not more than 1/2 hour to avoid blisters arise such as burns.

EXAMPLE OF USE:

1. He Rheumatism

    a. Prepare a handful of fresh leaves, washed and finely ground.

       Add warm water as needed until the dough like mush.

       Use it to grease and rubbing parts of the body.

       Apply 2 times a day.

    b. Prepare as much as 15 g of fresh leaves then washed. Add

       whiting 1 tablespoon. Carnpuran was then crushed

       until pulverized, then massaged into the yang.sakit.

2. Headache

    a. Prepare gout leaves to taste, then crushed. Add a little

       coconut oil until it becomes dough like mush. Put in

       temples and the head of the hospital as a poultice. Just 30

       minutes so that no blisters.

    b. Prepare fresh gout leaves, then wash and crushed.

       Apply coconut oil and layukan on fire. Stick it on

       behind the ears.

3. Urinating less smoothly

    Take gout leaves to taste, add the fennel and grind pulosari

    smooth. Rub the herb in the lower abdomen, just

    the position of the bladder. Just 30 minutes to prevent blisters.

4. Blood Cancer

    Prepare the root of gout leaves, seeds Livistona chinensis, Hedyotis diffusa

    (Grass snake tongue) and Verbena officinalis (verbenae berbalma bian cao), each of 30 g, and Spica prunellae (xia ku Caol of

    plant Prunella vulgaris L.) 15 g. Roots boiled leaves gout

    first for 4 hours with clean water sufficiently.

    Add water if the water rebusannya.berkurang. After 4 hours, the new

    others ingredients included. Bring to a boil again for 1/2

    hours. After chilling filtered, divided for 3 times the drink. Day 3

    times, each 1/3 part.

5. Leprosy, scabies, and skin disorders

    Take the root of gout leaves, then wash and mash until smooth.

    Add a little milk and water, stirring until evenly

    a dough like paste. Apply to the sick body.

NOTE:

- Pregnant women are prohibited from using.

- If poisoning arise on the skin, wash with boric acid (boric acid).

- Leaves used only for external use. External use as well

  restricted selarna 1/2 hours. Too long cause blisters

  such as burns.

Composition:

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS pharmacological: gout leaves are bitter, tonic, and toxic. CHEMICAL CONTENT: Leaves contain plumbagin, 3-3-biplumbagin, 3-chloroplum-bagin, chitranone (3-6-biplumbagin), and droserone (2-hydroxy-bagin plum). Efficacious substance called plumbagin highly toxic and the local use can cause skin damage such as burns form blisters. Pharmacological effects and outcomes research: Giving root leaf extract gout in 50% alcohol at a dose of 100 mglkg mm and 150 mm mglkg given orally in female mice, and has the effect antifertilitas abortivum (Sariati Sirait, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty USU, 1990).