Morphology characteristics.
Leaves short-stemmed, located intermittent, sunsang egg-shaped, tapering circular ends. Edge serrated leaves, bright green, flowers out at the ends of branches and axillary, flower-shaped hump, handled or sitting, and purple. The fruit longkah somewhat shaped tops, colored brown with white angled.Nature and Efficacy.
Beluntas leaves contain alkaloids, tannins, sodium, essential oils, calcium, flafonoida, magnesium, and phosphorus. While flafonoida and roots contain tannin. Beluntas leaves a distinctive aromatic smell and taste bitter and refreshing, nutritious to increase appetite, help digestion, shed sweat, eliminate body odor and bad breath, reduce fever, bone pain, back pain, and vaginal discharge; whereas beluntas roots efficacious as a laxative sweat and conditioning. Beluntas leaves can also be consumed as lalaban or steamed. Beluntas leaf essential oil content of 5% can inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, whereas the 20% level to inhibit bacterial growth Escherechia coli.Benefits Leaves Beluntas For Herbal Medicine.
Beluntas leaf which is a small plant that is widely found in areas close to the coast. These plants live in a way that can easily grow wild and although not intentionally cultivated. Utilization beluntas leaves are widely used as a herbal remedy is quite powerful. Here are some benefits beluntas leaves for treatment:1. Reduce Rheumatic sore.
Beluntas leaf properties it also can be used to reduce muscle pains in the body. Stiff often happens, will certainly be very torturing yourself. If having a stiff problem, then you should drink a decoction of leaves beluntas 3 times in 1 day.2. Eliminate Body Odor.
Body odor is certainly a very annoying problem, especially for social life. Neither the women or men, would be very insecure when experiencing body odor problem. From now on not to worry because the leaves beluntas can be the solution of this problem. Drinking water regularly beluntas leaf decoction, then the body odor that happens to be resolved. Other herbal ingredients that are also able to overcome body odor such as:3. Eliminating Whitish.
Beluntas leaves commonly known as a wild plant, widely used to treat vaginal discharge that is commonly experienced by women. Beluntas leaves can make whiteness becomes stop completely within a fairly short. In addition beluntas leaves, white turmeric benefits can also be used to treat vaginal discharge.Other uses of the leaf beluntas very useful for women is because the properties that can make menstrual pain that is common to be reduced.
4. Eliminate Bad Breath.
The problem of bad breath can also be a constraint, especially for those who often conversing with others. If you experience this problem, it is advisable to drink water leaves beluntas or use as a mouthwash to overcome this bad breath. A number of benefits of fruits are also consumed to reduce bad breath such as:5. Treat Pain Waist.
Many people who experience frequent back pain. This would greatly disrupt life, if it is constantly happening. Beluntas leaf decoction has pain relieving properties, especially in the waist area is. In some people, hip pain will greatly interfere with daily activities, and how to overcome them is to take a decoction of the leaves beluntas regularly. In addition, the benefits of water will also help reduce the risk of back pain that can occur.6. Overcome Rheumatism.
For parents who have rheumatic problems, can try to consume the herb leaves beluntas. Usefulness can eliminate a wide range of pain, it can also be used to treat rheumatism.
7. Overcoming Stomach Bloating.
Beluntas leaves turns also be a solution when subjected to flatulence, so the discomfort of flatulence may soon disappear by drinking a decoction of the leaves beluntas.To get this beluntas leaves, actually can be found easily in the area not far from the beach. Beluntas leaves are in the area and live in the wild, although only grows wild in the wild, but do not need to doubt the benefits of this beluntas leaves. Consumption beluntas leaves regularly to the perceived complaints can be reduced. But it is also necessary medical supervision when taking this traditional herb.
As Antibacterial ingredients and antioxidants.
Leaves beluntas according to research results have antibacterial and antioxidant function and have the potential to be developed as a preservative of food and medicine.Beluntas (Pluchea indica L.), the name of this plant may be rare to hear. But, actually form this plant is not seasing name. If we look carefully, it is almost certain people will immediately know it as a plant that is often found on the home page, because it is often used as a hedge plant.
Beluntas the shrubs erect, woody, branched, with height can reach two meters. Single leaf, round egg shape, pointed tip, fluffy, young leaves are yellowish green and after the old pale green and leaf length from 3.8 to 6.4 cm. It grows wild on the ground with high humidity; in some places in West Java this plant is used as a hedge and a barrier between the mounds on the farm. Some areas in Indonesia the name beluntas with different names like baluntas (Madura), Luntas (Central Java), and Lamutasa (Makassar).
Beluntas leaf is traditionally used as a remedy for eliminating body odor, drugs reduces heat, cough medicine, and diarrhea. Beluntas boiled leaves are excellent for treating skin diseases. Besides, it leaves beluntas also often consumed by people as vegetables.
Their traditional information from people who have long used beluntas leaves as one of the medicinal plants to encourage researchers to conduct various studies in order to scientifically prove his usefulness. In this paper will be tested for exposure to two studies in the form of utilization beluntas leaf extract as an antibacterial component and essential oils as antioxidants.
Beluntas as antibacterial leaf extract.
To get beluntas leaf extract to be dried, subsequent extraction. Extraction is done using hexane, the resulting residue extracted back with ethanol to extract the polar defatted with reflux method. Besides direct extraction using ethanol to extract the polar non defatted using the same method extracts for antibacterial activity test carried out on bacteria from the group of pathogens causing food poisoning sepertiEscherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Staphylococcus aureus, and Bacillus cereus. Besides E. coli is a bacterium that causes gastrointestinal infection, while S. aureus is the bacteria that cause impetigo (swelling of the epidermal layer of the skin), furuncle (inflammation in the sub-cutaneous tissue), and the carbuncle (widespread inflammation and the hair follicles). Of the group of bacteria that cause food decay adalahPseudomonas fluorescens. Testing for antibacterial activity using the well diffusion method; the clear zone around the well demonstrated antibacterial activity. Davis Stout argues that the provisions of the antibacterial strength is as follows: the area 20 mm or more barrier means very strong, regional barriers to 10-20 mm (strong), 5 -10 mm (medium), and area constraints 5 mm or less (weak).Table 1. Antimicrobial activity of leaf extract beluntas *
Bacteria (Extract Nondefatted) (Extract Defatted)
Escherichia coli (8.5 +/- 0.5) (7.0 +/- 0.4)
Salmonella typhi (10.2 +/- 0.4) (8.2 +/- 0.5)
Staphylococcus aureus (9.1 +/- 1.0) (7.1 +/- 0.6)
Bacillus cereus (8.4 +/- 0.7) (6.5 +/- 0.3)
Pseudomonas fluorescent (6.3 +/- 0.3) (5.5 +/- 0.3)
In the table above shows that the extract nondefatted show inhibitory activity higher than the defatted extract. If the data in the table associated with the provision of antibacterial powers proposed by Stout, then the antibacterial powers contained in the extract of leaves beluntas into the category of "moderate" (included in the range of 5-10 mm). Although the antibacterial strength in the medium category, can be understood when the leaves beluntas efficacious cure various diseases caused by bacterial infection.
Leaves beluntas as antioxidants.
Research conducted by the Sri Widyawati Paini (2005) tried to examine the antioxidant activity of leaf beluntas. Beluntas leaves extracted using ethanol by soxhlet method and water method hidrodistilasi. Furthermore, each extract, both of method and hidrodistilasi soxhlet tested for their radical scavenging activity DPPH (2,2-diphenil-1- picrylhydrazil radical), the antioxidants in the extract and essential oil will react DPPH beluntas leaves and turn them into alpha, alpha- diphenyl-beta-picrylhydrazine. Changes absorption produced by the reaction is a measure of the antioxidant capability of leaves beluntas. As a comparison used TBHQ (tertiary butyl hydroquinone) and υ-carotene which has generally been used as a commercial aktioksidan.The results demonstrated the following successive beta-carotene> Essential oils beluntas> extract beluntas> TBHQ. From this data it can be said that the leaves beluntas have potential as natural antioxidants and can take the place of TBHQ and beta-carotene as an antioxidant.
Potential applications beluntas leaves as a food preservative and medicine.
Of use of the antimicrobial compound / antibacterial function as preservatives, also an antioxidant that works to prevent oxidation, thus preventing the food product from damage due to exposure to air and light, has been largely derived from synthetic chemicals. Based on the research of these materials can cause negative health impacts. As an alternative solution can be to use natural ingredients that has the advantage because it is safer for consumption.
From the data mentioned above it can be concluded that the leaf has the potential fatherly beluntas developed as an extract that serves as a food preservative, for the ability to inhibit the growth of bacteria causing food poisoning and bacteria that cause food spoilage. Besides, it is also his ability as a radical scavenging activity can be used as an antioxidant compound.
There was also potential beluntas leaves can be used also as an anti-inflammatory agent (inflammation) and diarrhea due to its ability to inhibit the growth of S. aureus and E. coli.
Thank you for reading this article. Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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