carrot as a herbal remedy (image credit to aprimitivediet.com.au)

Carrot (Daucus carota), is a type of vegetables that taste sweet and are loaded with vitamin A. Besides carrots also store carbohydrates in large quantities and used to overcome various illnesses, including fever in children.

For the purposes of treatment, choose a light-colored carrots and a little brighter. This indicates that the carrot is still young and fresh. Here are a few carrots for the healing properties:

Overcoming menstrual pain

Take as many as 250 grams carrots. Wash them clean, then sliced. Add a little water and blend. Drink this mixture twice a day.

Constipation

Take two young carrots. Wash them clean and then shredded. Add two tablespoons of fresh water and a little salt, then squeezed. Drink carrot juice twice a day.

Skin smoothing

Take 2 to 3 carrots peeled clean. Wash them clean and then shredded. Use this herb for facial masks. Wait until dry, then rinse with water.

Hypertension

Take 500 grams of carrots, wash clean, then cut into pieces. Add a little fresh water and blend. Strain this mixture and drink immediately. Try to drink water routine three times a day.

Overcoming fever in children

Take 200 grams carrots, then wash clean. Grated and squeezed to earn its extract. Boil that juice water and drink after warm.

Heal burns

Mashed carrots until soft, then apply on burns. Do it as often as possible until the skin is not hot.

Cough cure

Take a carrot and then washed and shredded. Add one tablespoon of hot water and then squeezed to get juice. Add the palm sugar to taste. Mix well. Drink twice a day.

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Fennel is rich of chemical compound such as limonene; oil fat; stigmasterin; umbeliferona; sugar; saponin; flavonoida; polifenol.

Fennel plant has a property: Anti inflammation, carminative, diuretic, and anti-microbe. It is one of the famous herbal which is nutritious to treat constipation, coughing and colic disease.

fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill)

Fennel | Herbal ingredient to cure Constipation:

Take 3 fennel grains
3 leaves of young guava
1 / 2 finger of pulosari bark (Alyxia stellata Rest. Sch)
2 cups of water

All materials are boiled until the ingredients boil 1 cup of liquid is then filtered,

Usage:
Baby age 3 months: a day drink 5-7 times, each time 1 tsp; Baby age 6 months: drink 3 times a day, every time 1 tablespoon; Children age 3 years: take 3 times a day, each time 2 tbs; Youth: a drink a day 1 time , 1 cup every time.

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill) plant parts

Fennel | Herbal ingredient to cure Coughing:

3 fennel grains
lump sugar as much as needed
7 sheets of saga manis leaf (Abrus precatorius Linn)
1 finger of pulosari bark (Alyxia stellata Rest. Sch)
1 Onion

All materials are pounded finely and add a little water, and then wrapped with banana leaves then steamed for 15 minutes.
Press the ingredient with a clean cloth, be drunk at once before sleep at night.

Fennel | Herbal ingredient to cure Colic:

5 grains of fennel
11 coriander seeds
pepper seeds precisely 11
po’o fresh leaves 20 sheets
2 cup water
Saffron (Curcuma domestica) 1 / 2 finger;
1 seed of Lempuyang wangi (has been burned)
3 tuber of fresh Temu Kunci (has been burned)
3 tuber of fresh Temu Kunci
1 Ules wood

Mix and pound all materials, then being boiled to obtain 1 cup, and filtered with a clean cloth, drink 2 times a day.

Herbal explanation:

Pulosari (Alyxia stellata Rest. Sch)	Pulosari (Alyxia stellata Rest. Sch) Chemical compound : Andrografin; Andrografoloid; Panikulin Benefits: Stomachic; Carminative; Antispasmodic; Antitusif; Emenagog
Saga manis (Abrus precatorius Linn)	Saga manis (Abrus precatorius Linn) Chemical compound : Glisirhizin; Prekatorina; Abrin; Trigonelina; Kholina; toxi toksalbumin glikosida (toxin); Hemoglutinin; abrulin (toxin) Benefits: Anti inflammation; Diuretic; Antitusif; Parasitisida
Lempuyang wangi (Zingiber americans Bt)	Lempuyang wangi (Zingiber americans Bt) Chemical compound : volatile oil (Zerumbon, Limonen) Benefits: Stomachic Saffron (Curcuma domestica) Chemical compound : Tumeron; Zingiberon; Seskuiterpena alcohol; curcumin; Zat pahit; hars fat; Vitamin C Benefits: Kholagog; Stomachic; Antispasmodic; Anti inflammation; Anti bacteria; Kholeretic

So that all benefit of Fennel plant to cure constipation, coughing and colic disease.

Constipation is usually caused by consuming food habits to a low fiber content and water habits or ignore the desire defecate. For the herbal treatment, select one of the traditional herb medicine in the following:

Herbal medicine 1:

Prepare as many as 60 of sweet potato leaves, and then boiled with water as much as needed. And then drink the water while warm, and leaves can be eaten.

Or can be another way, namely: washing 60 grams of sweet potato leaves and 60 grams of kangkung (ipomoea aquatica Forsk.), and fried in oil or boiled with water as much as needed. Eat as well as vegetables.

Traditional Treatment 2:

Prepare 30 grams of and Alamanda leaves, boiled with water (as much as needed), then drink while the water is warm.

temulawak/Wildginger (Curcuma xanthorhiza roxb)

Natural Remedy 3:

This ingredient use Temulawak (Curcuma xanthorrhiza. Roxb.) herb As the medicine. This herb have a chemical compound, like volatile oil (limonina) the scent, while the flavonoida substance has benefit to heal inflammation. It’s volatile oil can also kill the microbes. The terbang oil contained are anetol, pinen, felandren, dipenten, fenchon, metilchavikol, anisaldehida, anisat acid, kamfen also contain of fatty oil. Temulawak has pharmacologic effect as anti-constipation, acnevulgaris, anti-inflammation and anti hepatotocsic, laktagoga, kolagoga, tonic, diuretic, fungstatic and bakteriostatic. Fennel also helps to remove the black wind, water and encourage the arts.

To cure constipation, take 10 grams of Temulawak powder, boil with 200 ml of hot water. After warm enough, drunk regularly 2 times a day.

papaya is effective to cure constipation

Herbal Remedy 4:

Following herbal ingredients is using papaya (Carica papaya L). This herbs rich in Alkaloid papaina; Karpaina; Pseudokarpaina; Glikosida karposid; Saponin; Karisina; Papaina; Papayatimina; Fitoklimasa; Karatinoid; pectin; Galaktosa; galakturonat acid. Papaya has a property Stomachic; Emenagog; Antelmintic; Anti inflammation; Antelmintic, and Diuretic.

Ingredient: Wash 300 grams of papaya fruit, 200 grams of half-ripe pineapple, and being refined with the blender, add 200 ml of drinking water. Drink this concoction. Alternatively, eat as much as 150 grams of ripe papaya fruit, regularly, twice a day.

aloe vera

Herbal Ingredient 5:

Aloe Vera leaf (Aloe vera Linn.) rich in food fiber that is good for preventing constipation and throw feces. For remedy, take 100 grams of Aloe Vera leaves that have been peeled and sliced, small slices, boiled with 200 ml of water until boiling, then add 1 tablespoon of honey. Drink while it is warm, and eat the Aloe Vera leaves. Do twice a day.

Herbal prescription drugs above are the traditional medicine that usually be used by the Javanese people to cure constipation. To ensure safety, please consult with your doctor.

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L)

It contain of low cholesterol vegetable oil, so that it is suitable to be consumed by person with hypertension or heart disease. Some literature said that sunflower pit being useful and having benefit for diuretic, expectorant, can be used to reduce hyperthermia, flu, cough, sore throat, and tuberculosis or lung disease. According to Hartwell (1967 – 1971), a botanical and herbal medical treatment specialist from America, sunflower pit has been used as traditional medicines by Venezuelan to treat cancer. sometimes, they mix it with wine.

While, Dr Setiawan Dalimarta a writer of herbal medicine and the head of Service Section of Traditional Medication Development and implementation Center (Sentra P3T) DKI Jakarta said, all part of sunflower has medication benefit. he said, “Its flower be used to reduce blood pressure (hypertension) and have a analgesic characteristic.

For example, to reduce pain of headache, toothache , menstruation, stomach illness and gastric problem. Its pit being used to stimulate appetite, remedy dysentery, abate smeasles, or boosting your libido. acording to some sources, Dr Setiawan also knew that sunflower root being usefull especially for urine canal infection, inflammation of the respiratory system, whooping cough and keputihan. It leaf being used for malaria and anti-inflammation. Applicable to guinea pig, research discovered that its stem marrow and the bottom of flower (reseptaculum) that contain of hemicellulose obviously effectual to block sarcoma and ehrlich asitic carcinoma.

“That’s why it also able to be used for cancer treatment, like stomach cancer and esophagus cancer,” Dr Setiawan said. With all benefits, there are some condition to be noted when you consume sunflower oil. “The most inportant thing is, is not allowed for pregnan women or breast feed condition,” Dr. Amarullah H. Siregar, MSc, PhD advice, a naturopati and homeopati specialist . The reason because, it having a substance named inulin that has functionality to widen and melancarkan organ or respiratory system, and being dangerous to the baby. But, according to Dr. Siregar, up to now he not yet hear poisoned case to a mature person who consume this herb. “It means that sunflower relatively save.

Moreover it contain more minerals, Fe, potassium, calcium, phosphorous, magnesium and natrium that has benefit for the human body,” he said. But, he remind, the sunflower used or other herbal used will be more save advise

Sunflower herbal ingredient:

Here are some sunflower recipes for health care and treatment from several sources:

Headache:

flower 25-30 grams boil with 1 chicken egg (do not break it) in 3 drinking glass of water until it left over a half of cup. Drink it after eat, twice a day.

Breast inflammation (mastitis):

take some flower (without pit), slice it thinly, then dry in the sun. After it dry up, fry it dryly without oil or grease until it overcooked and pulverize until it powdery. Take 10-15 grams, mix it with a few of (arak putih/rice wine), sugar (as much as needed), and 1/2 warm drinking water. Drink it 3 times a day.

Rheumatic:

boil flower head until it being starchy, make it cold and then stick it onto the part of body that hurt.

Constipation and urination problem:

boil 15-30 grams of fresh root with 4 drinking glass of water until it left over 2 glass. make it cold and refine it. Drink twice, 1 glass for each.

Dysentery :

Boil 30 grams of sunflower pit, and then steam it for 1 hour. Add sugar as much as needed after it, then drink it.

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But first lets me ask you … Have you feel your stomach become coiled? difficulty in having bowel movements? However preventing always better then medicating isn’t it?

So before you get a stomach here are several tips to do to prevent from constipation:

tamarind (tamarindus indica L).

Increasing eat vegetables and fruits to get more fiber.
Try to have breackfast, lunch and dinner timely.

Do excercize to discharge feces regularly, every day at the same hours. the best time to do it is about 15 – 45 minutes after breakfastbreakfast. If it take more than 10 -15 minutes, and you not feel to discharge feces yet. please don’t be coerced.

Sleep well, at least 8 hours a day.

What should to do if it too late? Uh… its too exasperating isn’t it?

First eat soft food, and stay away from spicy food like chili, red pepper and pepper. You can compress your stomach with warm water. This action will stimulate your peristaltic.

here are some herbs around us that can be used to allays that hassle.

First laxative choice is tamarind (tamarindus indica L). Tamarind consist of malonat acid, tartat, sitrat and malat acid that will refresh your stomach. Others are potassium bitartat as light laxative, pektin and sakarose.

tamarind (tamarindus indica L) plant

Tamarind also consist of oligosakarida as a fiber that have special characteristics to facilitate defecate. Use ripe tamarind for this recipes, and don’t forget to separate tamarind from its pit.

How to use?

• Boil a half of tablespoon of tamarind and one spoon of sugar with 1 glass (300cc) of water.
• Mix them and then leave its for a while.
• After its ingredients become cold, you can drink it slowly.

To be continue. Be patient please