Benefits of Chili Java for Health and Traditional Medicine - Java chili has the Latin name Piper retrofractum Vahl and included in the family Piperaceae. Java chili is usually used as an ornamental plant, because the shape of the fruit that is quite unique. Resembling chili but is rarely used as a spice in cooking.
CONTENT and CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
Fruit Java chili and hot spicy taste, entered the spleen and stomach meridians. Roots Java chili spicy and hearty taste.
Fruit spicy chili Java contains piperine, chavicine, palmitic acids, tetrahydropiperic acids, 1-undecylenyl-3,4-methylenedioxy benzene, piperidine, rninyak asiri, isobutyideka-trans-2-trans-4-dienamide, and sesamin. Piperine has the power antipyretic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and suppress the central nervous system. The roots contain piperine, piplartine, and piperlonguniinine.
PART USED:
The fruit that was old but not yet ripe, roots, and leaves, dried.
Indications:
Fruit chili Java can be used to overcome:
- Stomach cramps, vomiting, flatulence, heartburn,
- Dysentery, diarrhea,
- Difficult defecation in patients with liver disease,
- Headache, toothache,
- Cough, fever,
- Runny nose,
- impotence,
- Difficult childbirth,
- Neurastenia, and
- low blood pressure.
The roots can be used for:
- Bloating, impaired digestion,
- Can not get pregnant because of uterus cold,
- Clean the uterus after childbirth,
- Body feels weak,
- Stroke,
- Rheumatism, gout, and low back pain.
The leaves can be used to treat:
- Stomach cramps and
- tooth ache.
HOW TO USE :
Fruit as much as 2.5 to 5 g be a pill or boiled and then drunk. For external use, dried fruit dried and then ground into powder. This powder dihirupkan through the nose or inserted into cavities (dental caries). Also used for rheumatism and parem after childbirth.
2.5 g boiled roots, or used as a pill, powder. External use to cure wounds and toothache. Leaves to gargle in inflammation of the mouth.
EXAMPLE OF USE:
1. Neurastenia:
Chili Java 6 eggs, reed rhizome 3 stems, rhizomes lempuyang 3/4 finger, 1 handful fresh bitter leaf, palm sugar 3 fingers, washed and cut into pieces as needed. Boil 4 cups water until the remaining 2 1/4 cups. After chilling filtered and drunk. 3 times a day, each 3/4 cup.
2. Sign wind:
Java chili 3 eggs, Mentha arvensis (Mentha arvensis L.) and crimson leaves rivet (Bixa orellana L.), each 3/4 handheld, palm sugar 3 fingers. The materials are washed and cut into pieces as needed. Boil 3 cups water until the remaining 2 1/4 cups. After a cold strain and drink 3 times a day @ 3/4 cup.
3. Clean the uterus after childbirth, a powerful drug:
The dried roots of chili Java as much as 3 g finely ground. Brewed with hot water, warm drink as well.
4. Digestion disturbed, cough, epilepsy, fever after childbirth, strengthens the stomach, lungs and heart:
Java chili dried fruit as much as 5 g finely ground. Add honey to taste, stirring evenly, then drink as well.
5. Toothache:
a. Java chili fresh leaves as much as 3 pieces of washed and crushed. Pour 1/2 cup hot water. While warm filtered, the water is used to rinse your mouth.
b. Root chewed intently for a moment, and then discarded.
6. Seizures stomach:
Java chili fresh leaves as much as 3 pieces of washed and crushed. Pour 1 cup hot water. Ialu filtered while warm while drunk
7. Urus-care for patients with liver disease:
Cabe Jawa 3 point and rhizome of Zingiber a thumb-sized ground. Add 1 tablespoon of boiled water while stirring, then squeeze and strain. The water is drunk.
8. Fever:
Dried fruit as much as 3 g finely ground, then brewed with 1/2 cup hot water. Then drink together dregs while warm.
NOTE: Patients with heartburn and pregnant women are prohibited from taking this herb. Okay, he overview of Java chili for health benefits, may be useful.